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players cannot yet fully grasp those experiences deepen storytelling the campaigns may be shorter but the roleplaying can become richer the real magic was never the fantasy world at some point most gamers realize the campaign setting was only part of the experience the true magic was gathering people together consistently in a world that increasingly pulls them apart tabletop roleplaying games ask something modern adulthood struggles to provide uninterrupted attention imagination vulnerability shared time in a distracted and overworked culture sitting around a table for four hours pretending to be heroes is almost rebellious that may be why losing gaming time hurts so much it is not merely losing a hobby it is losing one of the few places where friendship creativity and presence existed without interruption holding onto the table yet despite all this tabletop gaming survives these groups are always adapting campaigns become monthly instead of weekly sessions shrink from eight hours to three parents bring children into the hobby old friends reconnect online after years apart the table changes shape but it endures and maybe that is part of growing older too learning that permanence was never the point the campaign will eventually end characters will retire people will move on but for a few hours around a table whether it s physical or digital time slows down again dice roll stories unfold friends laugh like they are twenty years younger and for a little while nothing has really been lost at all author lord tygger posted on may 8 2026 may 8 2026 categories uncategorized tags dnd games gaming rpg ttrpg 3 comments on the quiet theft of dice and time a gaming we shall go a friend commented on my first post in the once were gamers line as said and here i thought you were going to write about why we play games so let s venture down that rabbit hole shall we why on earth to we game i actually have given the quit a bit of thought in the past i even thought to myself that i should write something on that but time and tide wait for no author i have noticed that over the years gaming has become quite the thing for nearly everyone is it the game itself that draws people in when we speak of pen and paper gaming we start counting the days with dave arneson and gary gygax penning the first manual in 1974 a variation on their miniatures game chainmail over the years marc miller would recount the folks at game designers workshop playing d d just before they branched out with their science fiction game traveller there were more in there but the hobby fairly well started with the fantasy game itself people using their imaginations to create fantastical worlds that has fueled generations of gray matter to crunch the numbers over and over again i believe that the desire to imagine worlds greater than our own goes back to the dawn of time the greek stories of gods and heroes are almost a perfect example of that were they real mean and greater beings one can almost imagine a greek father taking his son out to hunt one day jason my son it is time you learned to hunt our greek would begin today i will show you how to hunt a boar i will be the boar and you will take your spear and show me how you would hunt the boar jason would approach his father and in a sudden quick motion he would swing the butt of the spear into his father s groin after his father struggled to his feet he would lean on his son s shoulders for support very good my son he would squeak now we shall go see your mother while she teaches you how to dress the boar i shall lay down for a bit well you get the picture fathers and sons or even mothers and daughters would role play to teach their children how to perform roles in their daily lives i am sure even fathers taught daughters and mothers taught sons using role play helps us pass along things much quicker than just lecturing i am sure tales would get told of the hero hercules and his trials as much as they may be tales of morality and lessons i can easily imagine a young boy pulling a rabbit pelt over his shoulders and exclaiming i am hercules when we give ourselves permission we like to imagine we tell tales of heroes and sometimes we take on the part of heroes and journey with our friends and fellow heroes to take on the world of imagination so tell me tigers why to you game do you read stories and then imagine a system where you could lead your friends through an adventure that relives that story scene author lord tygger posted on july 18 2020 july 18 2020 categories gaming tags gaming gods and heroes stories leave a comment on a gaming we shall go why don t we write is being bored a bad thing i sit here writing this after watching a tv episode that was streamed from a service when i wanted it to be played i did not have to wait for a specific time for the show to come on tv nor did i have to wait for the dvd to be published or buy it from amazon when i was younger so much younger than today so the song goes i remembered living in memphis tn and there was only four channels three major networks and the public broadcasting service this is not one of those diatribes where i complain that i has to slog through waist deep shag carpet just to get to the tv to change the station in fact when i was a teenager we did not have a tv anyway i digress today though i look around my desk and see that i have many things to distract me to keep my mind active and not allow myself to fall into the boredom that promises to be um boring seriously if i languish for too long i can switch on facebook or when i face a problem that i can not muscle past my weakened mind can turn to a game to play i don t even have to read any more which is good because my arms are getting shorter as i get older if you do not get that joke wait twenty years remembering when i was younger and just starting to get into gaming pen and paper stuff early traveller or dungeons and dragons i grew bored i had bought the latest module or rule book and read through it my friends were either in college classes or the sun was just a little too hot to be out in it as i became bored my mind turned inside and i began to write my own scenarios i drew maps that turned the adventurer around corners and faced monsters sometimes of my making or sometimes other players imaginations my mind soared from star to star so when did it leave me i still read books then in high school i finally acquiesced to my uncles insistence that i read a book i had finally read the rolling stones by robert heinlein my uncle was quite the reader himself having spent ten years in the navy traveling all over the world that is when he was aboard ship and not on leave journeying through the countryside so i had actually read my first book another uncle went to flea markets all the time and he gave me choice pickings at piles of books he would buy i started to read science fiction all the time i had dedicated myself to reading one book a month to start i stopped recording the number of books and their titles when i graduated high school but that last year i had counted 256 books over the school year i had a collection of nearly 3 000 paper backs nearly all science fiction then real life started to sink home college classes working and hanging out with friends for several years i continued to write and create since 2000 however i have noticed that i have slowed and to be honest nearly stopped entirely i would get spark to read and create then the spark would fade i had too much to do too much keep my interest going keeping my mind engaged today we have our smart phones iphone or android feeding us advertisements or texts or facebook we have over a thousand channels on cable fed tvs or streaming services that offer shows on demand some of the services offer a season at a time while some offer a weekly tv show do not despair there are other shows to occupy yourself with until your next episode comes on missed an episode go back and re watch it miss wkrp in cincinnati from when you were younger don t worry you can get that whole series on dvd from amazon for the right price you can even ask the new generation of kids and they will tell you that hell is when they are bored they do not even know how to handle themselves with nothing to do okay i will admit most of them do not at least i wonder if one of the reasons we are descendant into this world of chaos and dystopia is because we no longer stop to smell the flowers or just let ourselves be bored sometimes sometimes we feel the urge to write and create more when we allow ourselves the time to feel our inner selves reach out but we have to be very quiet because our inner voices seem to be drowned out by the chaff or our daily lives party on tigers get bored again author lord tygger posted on july 18 2020 july 18 2020 categories random thoughts writing tags boredom random thoughts 1 comment on why don t we write once were gamers part 1 over the year of pandemic and chaos i have given much thought to gaming what is the root of why people play games and on a personal level why do i game for me gaming started in 1980 just after graduation from high school until that time my friend ron h and i had talked much about science fiction all through our senior year of high school we were big fans of edger rice burroughs john carters of mars we often sat and discussed this new technology telepresence and fantasied about a walt disney world type theme park with free roaming tharks huge walking robots piloted by people in the back ground it is interesting to note that even with modern advances we are just now seeing free standing robot that can walk on their own piloted or not alas i digress where was i oh yes gaming the first game i played was a d d game that ron h had heard about we played at the lou zocchi s store warehouse in gulfport ms on pass rd the exact location escapes me but it has been a day or two since then i remember making a fighter for the first time and choose for his weapon a morning star at the time this was the stick with a chain and spiked steel ball at the end as i understand it this definition has changed and is now called a morning star flail it stuck me that the fellows who were helping me were shocked as they started crunching the numbers to find the to hit armor class zero or thac0 as it was abbreviated i might even still have that sheet somewhere in the archives maybe not it has been forty years needless to say i was hooked form that short session after that i had started making my own dungeons and drawing out the maps over the years i became quite fond of making my own maps taking out butcher paper when i could find it and sketching out the islands and continents scouring the for any traces of graph paper at the time it was rare outside of a college book store to find any graph paper well at least anywhere i was looking in the 80 s i had not my own transportation yet i was 18 and still sorting out what i needed to do to strike out on my own later that year my mom would decide she needed to go back to college and we needed to more to hattiesburg ms to facilitate this you know since i was at the college age now and she was sure i would be attending college as much as i reflect on that time and i know she had most likely asked if that was my goals i am sure i was rather clueless and went along with her plans ah 1980 tops songs that year were call me by blondie another brick in the wall part ii by pink floyd magic by olivia newton john rock with you by michael jackson do that to me one more time by captain tennille author lord tygger posted on july 11 2020 july 11 2020 categories gaming once were gamers self 3 comments on once were gamers part 1 overdrive thruster activated so i mentioned overwhelmed in reference to certain movies immediately the universe coalesced on me and everything got real busy who knew real life could get to real oh what yeah right this is what we had before the world started pushing so much information down our throats why i remember a time when i could stop and read a book heck i even wrote lots of material for my games now i do know this is a self discipline thing though it does get tough when we have hundreds of channels on tv billions of websites and tons of advertising at our very fingertips go go gadget smart phone of late i have drifted into a habit of nimbly sitting in front of my computer after work searching searching sometimes i feel like neo looking for possible reference to the world behind our world is the matrix out there i have yet to see the white rabbit and games from time to time i indulge on playing a few games mostly of the mmo variety with at least one mention of a voice pen and paper game champions now the computer console games those are almost like swimming in someone else s pool a pool of their design and you paddle around and swim to the beat and flow of their intent what happens when you decide to get out of the pool or walk past as you dipped your toe in the water and found it lacking alas you can tell my first love is the pen and paper free form role playing game perchance when the real world decides to slow i can finally step off the train and have a look around sadly this is not that day author lord tygger posted on september 21 2018 september 22 2018 categories random thoughts the real world leave a comment on overdrive thruster activated overwhelmed day one just watched a movie trailer the latest in a slew of marvel movies trailer it caused me to scroll back and remember the comics to which was it was alluding to and i am well i am over whelmed it has been building for some time for awhile i was numb to the movies now i don t even go to the movie theaters any more i just wait until the movies come out on blu ray or dvd but why overwhelmed so much in the visual category to catalog anyway just over whelmed author lord tygger posted on september 19 2018 september 22 2018 categories random thoughts the real world leave a comment on overwhelmed perpetual waiting i sit at the computer nearly every day scrolling past facebook entries checking out yahoo news items can t really call them articles and what am i looking for recently i have been wanting to game i have gone through traveller cyberpunk fasa star trek rpg now champions and others each of them i have fond memories of playing in days gone by but what am i looking for it would be different if i had a solid idea for something to write to run in a game yet my thoughts and activities are all over the map i have started these games and just seemed to drift away either i stop focusing on the game or stop writing the stories what am i waiting for in the last year i have come up with ideas for a couple video projects even alas i have drifted away from them lacking something to say i seem to have it for a while but circle back and lose faith where is my voice i turned 56 years old this past week and start my journey into the 57th year of my life i tho...