Did you ever quit the RPG hobby?
Why?
And what brought you back?
What do you mean by quit?
I never left.
Several years ago, I had a bad incident with a couple of bad players as a GM. And that caused me to pull away from GMing. Which I haven't done since.
It also sparked a quest through new game systems for those I found as a better fit for my personal gaming style and story approach. This quest was largely successful. And it resulted in my finding game systems that were more compatible with my tastes and approaches.
I also started putting serious effort into my writing around that time. Which very much scratched the constant creative itch I have. It's resulted in a series of graphic novels and prose novels that are in publication now.
I think of me near quitting of the hobby as a crisis of faith. It forced me to look elsewhere for avenues of creative expression. Instead of just relying on a virtual game table and unappreciative players for a response to my creative endeavors.
Aside from the Temple of Elemental Evil computer game (a version of 3E) and one solo AD&D adventure I DMed for an old friend, I have not played D&D since right before the first Lord of the Rings movie came out (2000 ?)
I've worked late nights for years and moved two hours away from my old group but I finally have regular weekends off, so I'd like to start up again. I never played 3.5, Pathfinder, or 4E. My preference is 1E AD&D, but I've bought the 5E books.
I had long hiatus from college until my first son got to 5 or 6 years old. Then I've found my old group again, and new ones. Now I play once a month. Mostly fast stuff like PbtA.
I had a long hiatus from about 1996 to 1999. I was disillusioned with the state of AD&D at the time, and didn't find the alternatives too much fun - the whole "dark, gritty and realistic" trend left me cold. So I mostly moved on to computer games, and only played the occasional one- or two-session game, most of which were disappointing. Honestly, I had lost the way. In 1999, I bought Palladium Fantasy on a lark, and realised that this was the kind of enthusiastic, high-energy fun I have been missing all along.
I owe a lot to Kevin Siembieda.
I've left. I found that the right people are key. If I can't find them, I stop gaming for long periods of time. Most people are annoyingly obsessed about having one particular thing in their gaming to the exclusion of everything else which doesn't work at all for me.
I never said to myself 'I quit gaming' and promised not to play again. When I started college I didn't have a gaming group so I didn't play for a couple of years. I think my junior year with the release of 3rd edition that there were enough people playing that I started again.
When I relocated to a new city after graduation, it was really easy to find a group for 3.x, so I've been playing consistently ever since.
I had an extended break once due to way too complicated personal life, but always intended to start back, and did. In high school, I quit over a girl. :) I'm not sure how that would have gone long term, as much as I enjoy gaming. Fortunately, I didn't need to find out.
I've quit when I was too busy with other life interests, such as partying, schooling, etc. :) I usually come back when I am injured and recouperating.
Quote from: Spinachcat;1102228Did you ever quit the RPG hobby?
Why?
And what brought you back?
Quit? No, because that implies a voluntary decision, but I had a decades long hiatus because of my work hours, I could never be sure to have the time and/or was too fucking tired after working 12-14 hours shifts for 6-7 days a week.
Just got back about 2 years ago.
I had a big break from about 2001 to 2010, where I moved and didn't have a group for a long time. I found RPG.net and still kept up with and talked about the hobby until I found a new gaming group.
I played from the late 80s to early 90s, then got distracted by weed. Bad move.
Restarted around 2007. Then stopped again because of a bad group dynamic and what amounted to bullying.
Some online play around 2014. Nothing for a few years because of bad group experiences and lack of groups. Attempting to restart again but anxious about meeting people.
Like a lot of the other posters, I didn't take my bat and ball and go home, disavowing myself of RPGs. Around '99 I got a job that required a lot of travel. Between that and "life" happening, I didn't have a lot of time for my hobbies and put them to the side. 3 or 4 years ago the topic came up with some new friends and I've been DMing various games ever since.
I didn't play much for much of the '90s, though still running a few things, and I had a year out 2007-8 after my son was born. But generally constant since 2000 & the release of 3e D&D.
There were several years after I started college that I was busy with other things.
I didn't quit, I was fired (directly out of a cannon, into sudden lifestyle changes)!
More seriously, almost everyone in my current groups are moving away and we already had trouble with scheduling issues due to alterations as far as disparate work schedules, life events (I just got married and moved twice this year), things like that.
However, at minimum, online gaming with at least some of them is a certainty once people re-settle.
Quote from: Spinachcat;1102228Did you ever quit the RPG hobby?
Why?
And what brought you back?
A long time ago in a FLGS far, far away...
Well, it was 20 years ago in a FLGS in Maryville only 11 miles away. I was playing AD&D2 with a dysfunctional group that had just sort of fell in together for the game. There was Bird, the DM (yes, all names have been changed to protect the guilty) who was my same age and gaming experience level. Xellos, the UT engineering student and party Magic-User. Duh Paladin, a nursing student from UT who always showed up either drunk or stoned and played his Paladin in an annoying evangelical stupid fashion. Then there was A-ko (Big Dumb Fighter), B-ko (Conniving Thief), C-ko (Fighter/Magic-User), and the Queen Bee (Druid) who had fallen in with us from the RPGA Living City game (Queen Bee was working her way through dating A-ko, B-ko, and C-ko: at this point she was on B-ko) . Finally, there was me, playing a Bard who had become party leader without really trying to be.
I arrive about a half hour early for the game and find Bird, Xellos, and Duh Paladin already there. My first indication that the night was going to be bad was overhearing Duh Paladin trying to convince Bird and Xellos that he should be party leader because he was playing a Paladin - and Paladins made the best leaders in D&D. I stood back a few feet and just listened as Bird told him that he was the DM and couldn't make decisions for the party and Xellos told him that character class didn't determine who was the best leader. I announced myself, walked over to the table, and got the "buddy ole' pal" routine from Duh Paladin (and a contact high from the herb he'd recently toked).
We just chatted for awhile without mentioning the attempted coup from Duh Paladin. Then C-ko showed up at game start time and let us know that Queen Bee, A-ko, and B-ko were going to be late. Queen Bee wanted to have B-ko take her to a movie, and A-ko tagged along because he and B-ko were best friends (and he still thought he had a chance with Queen Bee even though she had dumped him two months ago for B-ko). So we ordered pizza and waited. While eating, Duh Paladin used this time to pitch his coup idea to C-ko (with me close enough to listen to his stage whispering).
Two hours later, the movie-going troop showed up to the FLGS. Bird asked them to be respectful enough next time to show up on time or let him know when they had other plans and that began the night's game with a bit of tension at the table, which only escalated. As A-ko, B-ko, and Queen Bee settled in, Duh Paladin mentioned he had an idea for them and proceeded with passing notes between the four. No, Duh Paladin was not subtle.
The night's scenario was a simple defend the keep one. A local town with a keep had been attacked by goblins, when the keep soldiers went out and drove the goblin forces away they were themselves ambushed by more goblin forces - who were now heading for the keep. Our party had to devise some defences for the keep and protect the townspeople with only ourselves and the few remaining militia. Bird said we had an hour to plan, and then we had to play it. So I started at the head of the table and asked each player for a suggestion, going in a clockwise fashion.
That's when the shit started. Xellos was trying to give his idea while A-ko, B-ko, Queen Bee, and Duh Paladin kept shouting him down. Even after being asked politely to wait their turn, they wouldn't quit, and Xellos was getting mad. After a half-hour of this, yes a half-hour, Xellos proclaimed that the next person who didn't let him talk would have their character get hit by a Magic Missile. So when he was interrupted by B-ko, he just rolled the d4's and let him know that his character had just taken 9 points of damage. This immediately led to howls from A-ko, B-ko, and Queen Bee of, "You can't do that! It's an Evil Act!" (told you they came from the RPGA, which had rules about PvP and Evil Acts being committed during game).
Xellos said that he needed some air and walked out, followed by C-ko. I got up to try and calm him down, but was grabbed by Duh Paladin and told, "This is all your fault."
Thus began D&D Sensitivity Training. During which Bird and I gathered all eight gamers together inside, calmed everyone down, and discussed what had gone wrong. B-ko apologised to Xellos who apologised to B-ko and then A-ko, Queen Bee, and Duh Paladin all apologised to Xellos as well. This was a two hour process. We only had a half-hour left to game before the FLGS owner closed up shop. So we all got ready to get back to gaming.
And that was when Duh Paladin said that the party had this blow-up due to bad leadership from me as a player and the Bard as an inferior leadership class (huh?). Duh Paladin also believed that the party should all discuss and vote on who the party leader should be since I had proven to be incompetant.
I'd had it at that point, so I grabbed some leftover pizza and a pepsi and headed outside to cool off in the parking lot. The FLGS owner came out after a half-hour, handed me another pepsi, and let me know that he'd been listening in to our drama and would keep the store open another hour. That man was a prince amoung men to behave so understandibly in the face of such utter stupidity.
Before the extra hour is up, Duh Paladin comes storming out of the FLGS, crying, and yelling at me that, "It's all your fucking fault you fucker!" He then gets in his car and tears off.
Bird then came out and let me know that the rest of the party had voted unanimously for me to be party leader. I felt that I had won the booby prize.
I took the next year off of gaming.
D&D 3rd and T20 Traveller brought me back.
I haven't played in or run an RPG for some time now. I think about a year.
It was a conscious decision to drop RPGs for the time being.
My life is complicated atm, so don't have a lot of time to dedicate to RPGs, which are really time consuming. People tend to be pretty flaky as well, so it's hardly worth the effort of running an RPG or hosting to play an RPG.
I rarely even play Boardgames anymore. Although I did get roped into playing some "Dragonfire" Boardgame last week, which was quite fun, but mainly as a one off for old time's sake.
Still, RPGs have a special place in my heart and I DO like to read about them. One day I'll probably pick it up again when things calm down and I can make time for it.
So yeah. Gave up mostly due to time constraints, different priorities and effort/reward wasn't paying off for me.
I have different things in my life now that I find more rewarding that are also compatible with my lifestyle.
From college until I got married I was busy with more important things and didn't play. Wasn't so much actively deciding to quit or anything, just wound up focused elsewhere and it slipped away. In the back of my mind, I figured I'd pick it up again some day (and did).
I've never formally quit, but there have been times where I've too busy with other stuff to actively run or play in games.
I've gone through long periods with little to no active gaming, but I haven't ever consciously "quit" gaming. I've moved a lot during my career so it has been difficult to maintain a steady group. I haven't had good luck with game store gaming, and subscribe to the theory that no gaming is better than bad gaming. I have had long periods where gaming consisted of working on game related stuff (adventures / world building, rule tweaks, research related to gaming (I like historical based stuff) and other such activities) and the occasional gaming convention, which for some reason I've always had better luck with than the game store gaming scene.
Dry spells? Sure, especially when moving to a new State.
Quit? Fuck that noise. Game or die, beeyotch.
I took a long hiatus from DMing or Playing. I watched some sites (like this one) and had some convos, but avoided anything but some creation. I needed a break. I was tired of shallow involvement, the infrequent games, frequent cancellations and scheduling conflicts. I put WAY too much work into it for the lackluster involvement.
Then, I decided it was time to get back on the saddle. I felt that trying to form a group around one specific game (like my GURPS 4e group) meant that when the mood struck me to try something else, I couldn't. Without starting a new group/game AND trying to maintain the existing one. So I came up with what I thought would be a fun idea. The Seattle RPG Carousel. We would switch games/GMs every 8 - 12 weeks or so. We could share and try out different RPGs because there's so many great ones out there. I started a Reddit, a Discord, shouted on the various forums and social media and even roped in my friends at Metro Seattle Gamers to host us and recruit.
My first game was Fantasy Hero Complete, because the first people that responded were in the HERO forums AND wanted to try it out. 2 people showed up. I did my best. It was OK. One player can't return to the table until end of OCT. The other player already runs several games at another club on the Eastside and has not responded to any inquiries. I believe he may be waiting for the game to resume in OCT...
It's been nearly a month now and nothing. I've made new posts around, chatted up Discord, but no takers.
Apparently, this was a bad idea.
My friend is cobbling together an online game using Shadowrun 5e. The technology for online gaming seems great. He wants to use Tabletop Simulator, and it looks amazing. Someone on the HERO discord has skinned out a gorgeous HERO 6E distro that looks hella snazzy.
I always liked this hobby for the in-person aspect of it. I'm going to surrender to the online thing and see if that doesn't scratch my itch. If this goes sideways I believe I will completely abandon the hobby, sell off my collection and pursue other hobbies that might bring me some happiness. Even after my break I still feel the organizing and running games is a chore. It's just frustrating hair-pulling crap that sucks all the fun out of for me.
I'm trying to come back, but I'm not sure that was the right choice.
trechriron:
Over 20 years ago, I went to a convention in Seattle. It was literally within 2 weeks of the release of Champions 4th Edition. At a convention called Dragon Flight.
I was there with a vendor. So I was on his schedule. But the mostly HERO based games I played there were a blast. It's a fond memory.
But I live on the opposite end of the west coast now. But I still occasionally get mailings from that convention.
The discovery of work and girls in 1993 pulled me away for about a decade. Heroes Unlimited's powers supplements brought me back.
I've largely ceased participating in RPGs for the last two years. My interest have shifted to board games, which is where the majority of my gaming time and money goes these days.
Thing is, a lot of the people I play board games with are also role-players, and I could get into an rpg campaign easily enough if I wanted to. I've just largely lost interest in it, although I still enjoy discussing the hobby.
I quit playing and running games in 1985, and didn't go to any gaming conventions for awhile after I divorced my first wife for infidelity (with another gamer from our group, ...of course). She took my entire gaming collection which was in storage because I had joined the military and moved out of state in order to support the both us, and she sold it all of my D&D, minis, and wargames. Based on what I had, it would have been worth about 50k today, ...maybe more.
I started playing again in 1991 when TSR gave us old school gamers a nod and released the OD&D Rules Cyclopedia.
If you are having trouble finding players, offer to run beginners-oriented D&D (any edition, but 5e is optimal). If they like your D&D game they'll be willing to try something else. Anything else. One of my 5e groups will be playing some Feng Shui soon (I'll be a player), and no one complained.
Quote from: S'mon;1102859If you are having trouble finding players, offer to run beginners-oriented D&D (any edition, but 5e is optimal). If they like your D&D game they'll be willing to try something else. Anything else. One of my 5e groups will be playing some Feng Shui soon (I'll be a player), and no one complained.
Seems like a sound approach, especially as newbs tend not to know anything but the D&D brand initially. My problem is I'm done with D&D currently, in favor of lighter systems. I may have to rethink that, if I want to introduce new players at my current location, where we just moved.
Quote from: cranebump;1102865Seems like a sound approach, especially as newbs tend not to know anything but the D&D brand initially. My problem is I'm done with D&D currently, in favor of lighter systems. I may have to rethink that, if I want to introduce new players at my current location, where we just moved.
Yes - I had no trouble recruiting newbie players for a Classic D&D game, so you could follow my lead and offer to run "Beginners D&D - Mentzer Basic D&D" or similar. Then when you have a group of newbies & they enjoy your GMing, they should be happy to play other stuff.
Quote from: S'mon;1102882Yes - I had no trouble recruiting newbie players for a Classic D&D game, so you could follow my lead and offer to run "Beginners D&D - Mentzer Basic D&D" or similar. Then when you have a group of newbies & they enjoy your GMing, they should be happy to play other stuff.
I'd be amenable to that. I got approached this week by a rep at the HS where I teach, telling me the current tabletop sponsor wasn't doing it this year, and would I like to? I said I would, but that I don't run 5E (which are the books she has). I told her they could all come in, see what I got, and then decide whether it was worth their time. Giving it a bit more thought, I could probably run 5E, but it would be a teeth-grindy thing (the student says, "I always play an Aasimar," and I think, "oh, greeeaaat..."). I can see a whole party forming that can stand as the preface to a punchline ("So, an Aasimar, a Bugbear and a Tiefling walk into a bar...").
So, I'm sorta caught between. I'm thinking of running my own hodgepodge of various systems, since it's basically D&D bits and pieces. Then, when they segue into 5E (which I can pitch as, "by all means, run your own games the way you want--that's what this is all about...") it will feel similar to them.
Another idea, I suggest dropping $20 on the new 5e Essentials Kit and maybe using that (only) - the rules are really simple, and no Aasimar etc. It is excellent and is a full game with rules to make PCs level 1-6, 5 classes bard cleric fighter rogue wizard & 4 races dwarf halfling elf & human.
Get players hooked on that & they'll play anything. :D
IME you generally want to filter out the kind of player who only plays Aasimar Sorcadins, while getting the bright eyed newbies.
Quote from: S'mon;1102908IME you generally want to filter out the kind of player who only plays Aasimar Sorcadins, while getting the bright eyed newbies.
Sage advice. Learned same over far too many failed games.
Quote from: GameDaddy;1102856I quit playing and running games in 1985, and didn't go to any gaming conventions for awhile after I divorced my first wife for infidelity (with another gamer from our group, ...of course). She took my entire gaming collection which was in storage because I had joined the military and moved out of state in order to support the both us, and she sold it all of my D&D, minis, and wargames. Based on what I had, it would have been worth about 50k today, ...maybe more.
I started playing again in 1991 when TSR gave us old school gamers a nod and released the OD&D Rules Cyclopedia.
You should have spilled blood, over all that. 1d6 extra damage, too.
Quote from: S'mon;1102908Another idea, I suggest dropping $20 on the new 5e Essentials Kit and maybe using that (only) - the rules are really simple, and no Aasimar etc. It is excellent and is a full game with rules to make PCs level 1-6, 5 classes bard cleric fighter rogue wizard & 4 races dwarf halfling elf & human.
Get players hooked on that & they'll play anything. :D
IME you generally want to filter out the kind of player who only plays Aasimar Sorcadins, while getting the bright eyed newbies.
See, I'm even against Bards, man. (sigh) I suck.:-)
My mantra on this was, 'If I ever run 5E, I'm using the free packet, and that's it." Think I could get away with that instead? They could DL everything for free (which is my excuse for using it, being an old cheapskate). I have spell cards for Clerics and Wizards, the only 5E purchases I've made.
Quote from: cranebump;1102936See, I'm even against Bards, man. (sigh) I suck.:-)
My mantra on this was, 'If I ever run 5E, I'm using the free packet, and that's it." Think I could get away with that instead? They could DL everything for free (which is my excuse for using it, being an old cheapskate). I have spell cards for Clerics and Wizards, the only 5E purchases I've made.
Yeah, the 5e Basic Rules are fine. They are pretty well mirrored in the first Starter Set, the one with the green dragon. They don't have enough magic items, but you can make your own or use a printout of the items from the SRD https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf - also useful for extra monsters.
I'd still tend to recommend the Essentials Kit, which includes a bunch of spell cards, monsters, and magic items including the best Common Items from Xanathar's. You could just use Essentials and say No Bards. The EK is very much designed as a complete game, not just a starter set like the first one.
Quote from: S'mon;1102939Yeah, the 5e Basic Rules are fine. They are pretty well mirrored in the first Starter Set, the one with the green dragon. They don't have enough magic items, but you can make your own or use a printout of the items from the SRD https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf - also useful for extra monsters.
I'd still tend to recommend the Essentials Kit, which includes a bunch of spell cards, monsters, and magic items including the best Common Items from Xanathar's. You could just use Essentials and say No Bards. The EK is very much designed as a complete game, not just a starter set like the first one.
I'll strongly consider it. Thanks for the pdf link. I Dl'ed it. Very helpful. Much appreciated!
Yes, I did.
I quit completely around the end of the 1990s when I felt that D&D was ruined, and couldn't stand most of the other stuff out there.
I came back when 3e came out less than a year later.
I had about a decade long break from roleplaying since I was just washed up as a GM. I always had to GM, I think I got to play once in every blue moon. In the end it got quite taxing. So I gave all my rpg stuff to my nephew (but he sold it later. Today it would have been worth a small fortune). But now I'm back at it again, although in more modest form. We only play 2-3 hours per session, not like 10-12 hours like in our teens/early 20s. Well, 2-3 hours is about as long as I can stand human company anyway these days. Well, I'd give a naked, pretty woman with a taped shut mouth a little bit more time in my apartment.
Quote from: GIMME SOME SUGAR;1103758Well, I'd give a naked, pretty woman with a taped shut mouth a little bit more time in my apartment.
Ew.
I'm hoping that it sounds worse than you had intended.
Quote from: deadDMwalking;1103828Ew.
I'm hoping that it sounds worse than you had intended.
I don't think it's possible for it to sound better.
I quit in my late 20s when I wanted to be "taken seriously". Sadly, I sold off a lot of my collection and have been since rebuilding it.
Quote from: Bren;1103833I don't think it's possible for it to sound better.
I mean, he could have left out an intended 'with whom I have an established consensual sexual relationship' between 'woman' and 'with' out and just figured that goes without saying. But no, it does NOT go without saying.
Quote from: deadDMwalking;1103852I mean, he could have left out an intended 'with whom I have an established consensual sexual relationship' between 'woman' and 'with' out and just figured that goes without saying. But no, it does NOT go without saying.
Well, at least it was only her mouth was taped. Right? Right?
I'm sure she could just un-tape her mouth with her un-taped hands, get dressed and walk out of there on her un-taped legs.
:eek:
Quote from: S'mon;1103876Well, at least it was only her mouth was taped. Right? Right?
I'm sure she could just un-tape her mouth with her un-taped hands, get dressed and walk out of there on her un-taped legs.
:eek:
Sure, but then she'd have to make it past the un-taped guard dog and the very much on-tape CCTV camera...
Quote from: deadDMwalking;1103852I mean, he could have left out an intended 'with whom I have an established consensual sexual relationship' between 'woman' and 'with' out and just figured that goes without saying. But no, it does NOT go without saying.
:rolleyes:
I'm sure in this completely imaginary fantasy she imaginarily signed an imaginary BDSM consent form.
Had a years-long hiatus at/after uni, where things fizzled out in my first year and I gave up on trying to get a game going. Didn't start again til I moved to a new city entirely and found a group. That went well for a few years, until parenthood intervened.
Currently on another hiatus since my third child was born and things are only now settling enough to even consider it. Even then, other hobbies that don't require the perfect alignment of many other people's diaries have moved to the fore.
Quote from: deadDMwalking;1103852I mean, he could have left out an intended 'with whom I have an established consensual sexual relationship' between 'woman' and 'with' out and just figured that goes without saying. But no, it does NOT go without saying.
We wouldn't have sex at all. She would be cooking for me.
Quote from: cranebump;1102943I'll strongly consider it. Thanks for the pdf link. I Dl'ed it. Very helpful. Much appreciated!
Basic 5e is preferable for me, so I second that recommendation. :) There's still more that I would turn off personally. But as is it's fast enough chargen and manageable widget juggling for fitting in your own content creation.
I've had involuntary dry spells, where I didn't have a group I could DM to, mostly because of moving cities and/or work commitments of traditional group members.
But I always kept in touch with the hobby.
Quote from: GIMME SOME SUGAR;1103972We wouldn't have sex at all. She would be cooking for me.
Cooking naked isn't just unsanitary - it's dangerous. Ever have hot grease splatter on your arm? Imagine it was something more sensitive like a nipple.
My regular group that I played with for a long time fell apart around 5 years ago and I haven't sat down for a game since. Every once in a while I might buy a new game just to read but that's about it. There's a 5e group at work but they play online which is really a turn off for me. And plus I am really not interested in 5e. So I spend my time with video games which are generally more fun and much, much less hassle.
Quote from: Spinachcat;1102228Did you ever quit the RPG hobby?
Why?
And what brought you back?
I played D&D as a kid in the 80s. I quit once I got to college (with one exception) because I just wasn't around people who wanted to play and had other interests. I got back into it once I started a post-graduate job where a peer at work bought the 3e PHB and it was awesome - and he invited me to play.
I stop playing and game mastering for a few years. My original group just had lots and lots of drama. However, I manage two Comic and Game stores so I was still in touch with the hobby.
Grognardia and the OSR brought me back. I realized that my AD&D DM never ran the game the way I liked. Many of the things I saw as bugs ended up being features.
What brought me back was getting access to the D&D Next playtest material from my Wizards of the Coast Account Rep and starting my blog (http://www.crossplanes.com).
Halfway back into the hobby because my children hit teenage years and got interested & independent enough to run themselves. Currently doing quick research & coaching because kid #2 is "getting ready for English History GCSE" by throwing together a 5e campaign set in 955AD Northumbria to run for his brothers + school friends.
The 5e group at work during the day has been meeting << 50% of the time over the last 6 months because DM had a precious story and wanted the majority of the players present for it; now on hiatus so the DM can rework for less consistent playerbase. I'd threatened to take over the time slot and run West Marches, but with only 1.5 hour sessions it's infeasible to run a full round-trip from safety to adventure and back to safety. With kids I can't hang around for the 5e groups which meet after work.
So many quitters...
Charlie don't surf!
Quote from: Opaopajr;1102268I've quit when I was too busy with other life interests, such as partying, schooling, etc. :) I usually come back when I am injured and recouperating.
So, if you're not playing and people want you back in the game, they should run you over with a car?
Quote from: Spinachcat;1102228Did you ever quit the RPG hobby?
Why?
And what brought you back?
I never quite but I know several who did and all but one came back. And the reason for quitting was always, with one exception, a version of "too busy, real life" and real life would end when kids were grown or a divorce and I'd get a phone call, "you guys still game?" The exception was the guy who took up Scottish country dancing, sort of like real life, and he came back when he broke a leg and left again when it healed.
Never left, but real life happened with starting a family and moving around the world and building a career. Still game occasionally with a mate from home using messenger or skype. I recently got a work colleague and his spouse interested and ran a Coriolis game for them a few weeks back. They liked it so I might be starting up something regular soon.