What other hobbies do you have?

[Richardb]

Wow--Richard, I think your hobby is collecting in general!

My hobbies are reading classics (novels & poetry) & theology, writing, playing my once-a-week rpg, and woodworking--although on that last I tend to do more home improvement & repair for friends than anything "fun" like making a chair. (I don't mind; I like helping them: working on other peoples' houses is always more fun that on your own!). Otherwise I am a dad & husband--so I don't have time for much else!

I am clearly a 'collecting' personality, always have been!

[Robbie]

I have too many hobbies, and am lucky to have a job that is also built around my hobby.

• I play drums in a local rock band (http://www.3rdgearband.com)
• I do graphics work often (3d and 2d)
• I enjoy flying and flight simulators and develop aircraft for flight sims both hobby and professionally (currently developing a 3d cockpit for the V-22 Osprey)
• I collect the occasional comic book
• I'm currently building a portable arcade built around MAME (look it up )
• I play computer games a lot, including the occasional MMO (Wow, Guild Wars, and currently Fable)
• I'm a modeller/artist for a currently un-mentionable software product that I'm sure will find its way to you guys
• I'm a webmaster/web designer, and programmer for far too many websites scattered across the web

whew...that was a long list

[Torq]

Richardb you mention the old Judge's Guild products. I am about to start Dming a campaign set in the re-made Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting using the Iron Heroes D20 system. I suppose that covers one of my hobbies. Others include playing guitar, creative writing, 3d modelling, Karate (Hoping to compete in the world champs in Switzerland next year) and watching my favourite sport (rugby). Go Springboks.

All of these can only be slotted into the gaps left by marriage, fatherhood and full-time legal practice.

Torq

[Richardb]

Richardb you mention the old Judge's Guild products. I am about to start Dming a campaign set in the re-made Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting using the Iron Heroes D20 system. I suppose that covers one of my hobbies. Others include playing guitar, creative writing, 3d modelling, Karate (Hoping to compete in the world champs in Switzerland next year) and watching my favourite sport (rugby). Go Springboks.

All of these can only be slotted into the gaps left by marriage, fatherhood and full-time legal practice.

Torq

The new product is really quite faithful to the original, with slightly updated graphics and better descriptions. I still like the old style simple maps, however. I think that the wild feel of the wilderlands setting is really one of the best in the industry to this day for open D&D play that is character based.

[Torq]

I agree about the Wilderlands. I think modern campaign designers went for the "no wasting" approach to design. They tend to create very tight and restrictive paths for their worlds so that there is no choice but to experience everything they have spent the time, money and effort to create. The same can be seen in computer games, particularly so-called rpgs. Every now and then some creative people come along and buck this trend to give you the most open-ended experience possible. In computer games Oblivion is a great example. If you havn't played it, I recommend it comlpetely.

The Wilderlands setting does the same thing in my view for a campaign setting. It hearkens back to the, maybe more naive, days when designers did not underestimate the power of creating the sense among players that their characters could literally go anywhere and do anything. In my view this sense of character freedom more than compensates for a slightly cheesy world view as evident from the source books and some sketchy mapping.

Torq

[Ishmayl]

I seem to have some in common with Arcana there.

I collect swords and knives (functional, not decorative).
I play drums in a local funk band.
I play piano/keys/organ in a local jazz/jam band.
I collect comic books.
I work on my web site(s).

[RPMiller]

These days its quite limited.

Computer graphics (3d and 2d) still trying to figure it all out
RPGs when I can squeeze in the time
Spending time with my family
Work (I'm an IT admin)

Apparently I had a lot more hobbies at some point, but they have all been lost or misplaced because of time and his evil sister money.

[RobA]

Lets see-

• Bicycling
• Reading
• Cooking
• Lego Robotics
• Playing with computer graphics

At least when real life gives me the time or any of these

-Rob A>

[torstan]

Running two weekly campaigns takes the most time - though making maps for said campaigns has recently taken over as the biggest prep time drain. I've just started making maps on the computer and I'm loving learning the details of gimp for that. Otherwise squash, learning Polish (more necessity than hobby ) and odd bits of sketching make up my hobbies. In the day job I am a research physicist.