A Post I'm Not Happy About Writing...

[chirine ba kal]

I feel like I'm wasting everyone's time with my obsolete observations, and my antique play style. "Too hand-wavy, too loosy-goosy"; and I understand that. It's why I'm leaving the 5e Blackmoor campaign at the end of this month; too many rules, too much number-crunching, not enough Dave Arneson. I don't fault the GM or the players; this is their Blackmoor, and thy should be able to have lots of the kind of fun that they like with it.

I, for one, love reading about the earliest days of my favorite hobby, especially from those who stat at the table of those with direct hands in the making of said hobby. When the hand-waving was all there was, because there wasn't a rule for this or that. I'm very glad they didn't give up the ship when they hit uncharted waters, and thoroughly enjoy reading accounts of the formation of one of my favorite settings.

My issue is that it's not my Blackmoor, a time when Gertie took wing as Dave Arneon took over the GM chair from Phil Barker; it was magical - it was as if I was visting Disneyland as Walt's guest, with the same astonishing genius and whimsy in the driver's seat.

Another thing I love about this hobby is that something like this is totally okay, and, in fact, is to be expected: "Take my world, please... and run with it!" Every group's take on a setting and adventure will be different from anything that's been done before at a gaming table. I know my take on Blackmoor is vastly different than those presented in the myriad of official sources, which are, in turn, vastly different from how the setting looked at the table with Dave Arneson DMing.

I don't particularly care about the squabbling of historians, or the duh-rama as they play at tin soldiers, using source material as their pawns. It would be nice if they would all set egos aside, and work together to weave a tapestry that paints a whole picture of the earliest days of the hobby, rather than tugging at the threads of their 'competitors'' tapestries to enhance their own. Ah, well... In a perfect world...

I'm not leaving gaming; too much in the game room to carry up the stairs and out to the trash.
I'll be around. E-mail if you need to talk to me. Thanks again, everyone!

That, alone, is as much a reason as any not to leave the hobby

Thanks for taking the time over the years to pop in and share, and hope to see you 'round the Inn!

Thank you for your very kind words!