The Cats
2014-02-03, 12:41 AM
I always feel too self conscious to really get into a character and I've found straight roll playing (as opposed to role-playing) kind of boring. I haven't managed to kind an online game that could keep my interest for long either. Maybe I just haven't found the right gaming group. (not that I've tried very hard. I'm far more comfortable fiddling on my computer than socializing)
That said, I'm not actually complaining. I still love these games! Currently I'm really into pathfinder and have discovered that homebrewing is a thing. It's incredible fun trying to make stats for the creatures in my imagination or coming up with unique (as unique as you can get with something that has this many content-creators) mechanics and concepts. Granted, my lack of actually play-experience means my lots of my homebrew probably isn't properly balanced but hey, I've read a bunch of guides and listen to critiques so it's possible my CRs are in the ballpark. Even if no one ever plays with my creations I'm still having more fun than I thought possible crunching numbers or looking at a picture and wondering what that thing could do.
I'm currently working on a sixth-level casting base class that can choose a variety of elemental spirits (and their corresponding elemental powers) to inhabit small, psuedo-golem shells as sort of animal companions. And I can say that I'm happy and proud to be working on it here without drawing eyerolls and groans (well, too many at least) because this community is intelligent, like-minded, supportive, adjective and, well gosh it's just swell!
Rant over. Moral of the story: You can still really like tabletop RPGs without ever playing them. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
That said, I'm not actually complaining. I still love these games! Currently I'm really into pathfinder and have discovered that homebrewing is a thing. It's incredible fun trying to make stats for the creatures in my imagination or coming up with unique (as unique as you can get with something that has this many content-creators) mechanics and concepts. Granted, my lack of actually play-experience means my lots of my homebrew probably isn't properly balanced but hey, I've read a bunch of guides and listen to critiques so it's possible my CRs are in the ballpark. Even if no one ever plays with my creations I'm still having more fun than I thought possible crunching numbers or looking at a picture and wondering what that thing could do.
I'm currently working on a sixth-level casting base class that can choose a variety of elemental spirits (and their corresponding elemental powers) to inhabit small, psuedo-golem shells as sort of animal companions. And I can say that I'm happy and proud to be working on it here without drawing eyerolls and groans (well, too many at least) because this community is intelligent, like-minded, supportive, adjective and, well gosh it's just swell!
Rant over. Moral of the story: You can still really like tabletop RPGs without ever playing them. Just thought I'd throw that out there.