I am beginning to wonder if that is "Strange"?

For example: I spend just as much time actually playing billiards; as I do reading, watching videos, etc.  And I'd rather actually play, too.  Actual play IS the goal.

Yes, I probably average 8-10 hours a week playing RPGs (bit less right now, more when work less busy) and probably 40+ hours on places like this!

Design, write, and illustrate, yes, but otherwise no: I play way more than a read or discuss them. Unless it's re-reading the stuff I wrote. That can eat up a good chunk of time.

I haven't been able to get an RPG session together in months. So I spend far more time reading or discussing than playing.

Quote from: Imaginos;1063623I haven't been able to get an RPG session together in months. So I spend far more time reading or discussing than playing.

Pretty much the same here.

I also spend a quite a lot of time world-building (or at least trying to), if you consider that "playing", but it rarely goes anywhere because (without an actual game to focus on) I keep flipping between different worlds too much to actually make significant progress on any of them.

Been playing far far more than reading lately.

Not unless you count:
1) reading up on medieval history, weapons and armor, mythology, etc. (which I consider a separate, if related, hobby).
2) forum-going (which I consider a form of socializing with people with familiar interests).

Quote from: Razor 007;1063594I am beginning to wonder if that is "Strange"?

For example: I spend just as much time actually playing billiards; as I do reading, watching videos, etc.  And I'd rather actually play, too.  Actual play IS the goal.

"Strange" as in outlier? For sure. The average TTRPG player does not visit RPG forums. We are non-representative of the overall norm (which is important to remember when we all come to some agreement about game-play-style or the like). Strange as in... I don't know... shorthand for doing something wrong or damaging? Not really, unless you are doing it at the expense of your real world responsibilities or the like. I guess maybe you might consider it problematic if you then can't game with other people (whom you want to game with) because they are steeped in the 'online culture' of the game. I don't know, I'm grasping at straws here to find a problem with this.

It's erratic.  Both of my games are on odd schedules.  My preparation for the games is even more irregular, because my available time to do it sometimes coincides with too tired to do much of anything.  Forum time is usually 5 minutes here or there.  I'd need to track time spent to say for sure, but I'd guess it comes out somewhere around equal thirds between gaming, prep, and forum/reading over time.

I've spent more time writing my RPG (16-ish hours a week) than playing (4-6 hours a week), but I can surf through the daily posts on most gaming sites in 10-15 minutes or less (so under two hours a week).

I definitely do, because I have no group these days, so I'm doing no gaming.

I find the amount of time I spend posting about rpgs on message boards and reading rules is directly in inverse proportion to how much I play.

Yes.  It was a big part of my life in my teens and early 20s.  

My groups fell apart.  I moved across country.  The online site where I used to play regularly is long since defunct.  

It's fun to read the books and daydream about someday playing again.  Life, growing up, and the sometimes odd sensation of making friends at this age.  I was supposed to run a Deadlands game a few months ago for my friends back north and it fell apart before it could begin.  

The books are still fun.  The odds of playing are zero if I'm not involved at all.  So I read them and talk about them.

I play twice a week for an average of 8 hours per week.

Sometimes that is more than I spend on forums. Depends on how busy I am.

Sure.  "Playing" is a few hours every other week at best, because other shit gets in the way.  Can toss in an extra hour here or there, even some of the online stuff I do is "as you can squeeze it in."

Looking at a PDF, picking up a book to read for a bit, planning out shit for later - this stuff can happen when I'm doing other things.  Last night before bed I was reading VS' "La Bas Chartreuse" and figuring out how to fluff it out a bit and involve it in my campaign.

Doing that sort of thing, talking about it here and other places - all of this stuff consumes more time than I get to play.  And that's fine with me, I enjoy that aspect of the hobby every bit as much.

Quote from: Razor 007;1063594I am beginning to wonder if that is "Strange"?

For example: I spend just as much time actually playing billiards; as I do reading, watching videos, etc.  And I'd rather actually play, too.  Actual play IS the goal.

Yes, unfortunately. I'm in a Pathfinder campaign that's very spotty. (Players have lots of real life commitments) I'm in a biweekly Starfinder Society group that I usually make it to, but X-Wing miniatures sometimes happens on the same day, and I usually give X-Wing priority. I also have a 2 player campaign I was DMing that fell off the radar, but I might pick up again.
Far more time working on my Transformers RPG and various adventure materials than I'll ever use.