Completist Tendancies
Dec. 12th, 2005 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournI started playing Living Greyhawk at GenCon in August 2000. I had started playing RPGA campaigns in September 1999 as a social hobby that was a low-pressure way to make friends and get out of the house while going to school that first year after separating from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
appleang. The existing campaigns had been going for years, and GenCon 2000 was both my first 'Big 3' convention as well as the premiere of the brand new D&D 3.0 Living campaign set in the old-school World of Greyhawk.
Some five years and 125 rounds of modules (which amounts to an estimated 725 hours of play for just that one character out of around 12 RPGA characters across 8 campaigns;jeliza calls it my "graduate degree in gaming") later, the character I started back then just hit mandatory retirement. The campaign changed a lot in that time, we had several conversions including the switch from D&D 3.0 to D&D 3.5, and while I started playing in the Oklahoma/Texas region I ended up in the Washington/Oregon/Canada region after about a year and a half of play. Because of the unique regional nature of the Living Greyhawk campaign, I've traveled a fair amount to play in different states and met a lot of people in the process.
Early next year, my Living Force character started a few months later at the premiere in January 2001 will be reaching the end of the that campaign, joining the now defunct Living City, Living Jungle, and Virtual Seattle campaigns.
There are still other characters and games to be played to keep up with some of the friends I've made through the years, but I'm actually happy to have these things come to an end. For me the attraction of a role-playing game is the journey, and a journey itself is meaningless if it never comes to a close. And man, do I love closure.
So with that, I say goodbye to an old friend and look forward to investing my free time in some new endeavor. I don't know... maybe a house?
appleang. The existing campaigns had been going for years, and GenCon 2000 was both my first 'Big 3' convention as well as the premiere of the brand new D&D 3.0 Living campaign set in the old-school World of Greyhawk.Some five years and 125 rounds of modules (which amounts to an estimated 725 hours of play for just that one character out of around 12 RPGA characters across 8 campaigns;
jeliza calls it my "graduate degree in gaming") later, the character I started back then just hit mandatory retirement. The campaign changed a lot in that time, we had several conversions including the switch from D&D 3.0 to D&D 3.5, and while I started playing in the Oklahoma/Texas region I ended up in the Washington/Oregon/Canada region after about a year and a half of play. Because of the unique regional nature of the Living Greyhawk campaign, I've traveled a fair amount to play in different states and met a lot of people in the process.Early next year, my Living Force character started a few months later at the premiere in January 2001 will be reaching the end of the that campaign, joining the now defunct Living City, Living Jungle, and Virtual Seattle campaigns.
There are still other characters and games to be played to keep up with some of the friends I've made through the years, but I'm actually happy to have these things come to an end. For me the attraction of a role-playing game is the journey, and a journey itself is meaningless if it never comes to a close. And man, do I love closure.
So with that, I say goodbye to an old friend and look forward to investing my free time in some new endeavor. I don't know... maybe a house?
