This post is part of a series of posts in the D&D 40th
Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge. The
information in many of these posts is related to events that occurred primarily
in the1980’s. Since it is now 2014, I can not guarantee complete accuracy with
such a large passage of time but I will present the events and information as
best as I can recall.
Day 28: What’s the single most important lesson you’ve learned from
playing D&D?
Simply that variety is the spice
of life even when it comes to a hobby
that I enjoy tremendously. I referred to
this in my previous post for the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop
Challenge. My gaming group had a
tendency to playing “just D&D” which meant AD&D or Basic D&D. Even though we would occasionally play
something else, the vast majority of the games we played were D&D-like in
their rules or play style. In short, we
leaned heavily towards these types of games from 1980 to 1991.
I took a long break from 1991 to
2000; basically, the entire time I was in the Army. I played once or twice during that time but I
was not excited about A/D&D or even fantasy gaming in general. It somewhat felt like a chore to me and I
needed a break at that point. The reason
for that break was that I had over played A/D&D and similar games to the
point that I was not interested in playing anything at that point.
I have a much smaller collection
at this point in my life. Fantasy still
takes up the most shelf space but it is a slight margin now instead of the vast
majority. I have a lot more variety with
games like SteamCraft (a steampunk role-playing game) and Dead
Reign (zombie apocalypse) as part of my collection. It would be easier to GM some of these games
now if I would have expanded my horizons back in my early days of the hobby.
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