Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Happy Star Wars Day!

In honor of Star Wars Day, my favorite Star Wars poster:

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Posted by Christopher B at 3:28 PM
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4 comments:

Martin R. Thomas said...

Hey there - I was just re-reading some old comments on my blog and remembered that you used to comment frequently, and I used to enjoy reading your posts. But, you haven't posted in over a month!

Hope you're doing well.

Cheers!

June 12, 2011 4:38 AM
Christopher B said...

Hey, Martin. Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Rest assured, I'm still drawing breath; just been in a funk for the past few months, and really had no interest in writing about the gaming I haven't been doing or commenting about the gaming others have been doing. :P (No sour grapes intended - more power to the folks who still have the opportunity to enjoy their games!)

Hopefully I'll be active again before too long...

June 28, 2011 12:07 PM
Martin R. Thomas said...

No worries, Christopher! Sorry you're in a funk - it happens to all of us from time to time. Hang in there.

I hear you on the frustrations of being in a regular game. I'm blessed now to have a few going on, but I still recall the days when that wasn't the case.

Have you tried using meetup.com? That's the site that my FLGS uses for their in-store RPG games (although anybody can use it - my wife started a breakfast group of pregnant women back when she was pregnant with our daughter), and there seems to be quite a big following. It's sadly mostly 4E, but then again... a game is a game, right? Better to play something than not at all, right? And if you get a regular game going, you can always later on say, "Hey, I'd like to DM some old-school D&D. Anyone interested?" I'm sure you'd find some takers. Then you can put your Dark World campaign into action!

Looking forward to seeing you resume your posting. Until then - Cheers and take care.

June 28, 2011 1:11 PM
Christopher B said...

Thanks for the suggestion, and I appreciate the sympathy. Actually, for many years I've used Meetup, NeabyGamers.com, PenandPaperGames.com, and any other online means I could to find local gamers. My fiancee and I even recently moved from a very rural area to a more metropolitan one (as metro as you can get in central NY) partially with the hope of expanding our social circle. (Maybe resurrecting it is a better way of saying it.)

Despite our best efforts, we've had very little success. I've come to believe that this is mainly due to the strange way people are around here. For some reason, a lot of folks around here are very insular, and most of the few we've managed to meet have been very unsociable people. We're looking for friends, but some of these people treat gaming like a job, and have no interest in socializing beyond the game table. And they're not even very good at that "job"! It's not just local gamers who behave this way - we've discovered the same weird behavior in other local people, as well. People in central NY are, in general, not very friendly - and many are downright disagreeable. Must be the water. Or something.

(My fiancee has traveled extensively, and lived in many different parts of the US (and other countries) and can vouch for this - she agrees that, in her experience, people in NY are generally the hardest to get along with. While I'm certain there are exceptions to this sweeping generalization, I've yet to meet them.)

At this point, I've completely given up hope of finding gamers (much less friends) in this area. My only hope now is that the marketing company my fiancee and I are launching blossoms, at least enough so for us to get out of Dodge (or should I say New York?). If all goes according to plan, we'll be in (or near) L.A. within a year - maybe then I'll feel like a human being again. And maybe we'll even find a group of friendly folks to game and be friends with!

June 28, 2011 1:40 PM

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