For the past two weeks or so, I've been struggling to get motivated. I keep telling myself I should work on developing my TS&R campaign world, or get ready for the next Star Wars adventure, or keep plugging away at my TS&R GM Guidebook, or work on the idea for the Gauntlet arcade game inspired tabletop skirmish game idea, or playtest my modifications to the BECMI War Machine mass combat rules for TS&R a bit more, or something.
I'm running my campaign. We had a good session on Sunday. But other than that, I'm not doing much gaming related stuff.
It's just a lot easier to sit down, when I've got some free time, to watch some political bullshit commentary on YouTube, or continue my watch through of Star Trek Enterprise (finished that the other day), or some other way to just waste my time.
The new semester has started, and I'm getting into the groove of the different classes and schedule this semester. Students are mostly people I've taught before, so that's always nice.
I did pick up a copy of the 5E DMG, finally. My friend Lisa is leaving Busan for Belgium, and had to sell off a lot of her board games and RPG books because it would be too expensive to ship them. So I got her DMG. I'm not gonna run 5E, but I did want to have it for reference/comparison purposes. I haven't really looked through it yet, though. For that matter, I've barely looked at the 4E books that I got from Pat when he left Busan last year. And I promised Joe Block that I'd read through his Swords of Wuxia book and post my ideas here. Maybe that's what I should do to get back into the mood. Do a bit of RPG reading, and post my ideas and reactions here.
Sorry for the mopey navel-gazing post, everyone. I'll try to get some new, interesting, gaming related content up here soon.
I hear you, man. Personally, I've got a lot of juice for my game, but no time to play it, which sucks. Happens when you have a family and a busy life.
ReplyDeleteBut I understand dealing with lack of motivation, too. I do. Low energy is low energy (and there are tricks to ramp that up). But perhaps you're feeling ennui? That's different...though it can look the same. I ran into THAT wall a few years back myself (with regard to gaming), and only got through it by "upping" my game.
Hopefully, you just need a little recharge to your batteries.
I feel that vibe. Had three ongoing games (two playing, one running) just fall apart over the holidays and a bunch of RL BS crop up at the same time and I can't work up the energy to even do blog updates, much less hunt for a new group. Bleah.
ReplyDelete