{"id":91,"date":"2010-07-16T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:22:00","slug":"focus-on-the-wrong-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Wrong Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted at Year of Frugal Gaming<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll cut past the \u2018hello, is this thing on\u2019 and just straight up apologise \u2013 Sorry I\u2019ve not written anything here for a while. Today, I\u2019ll be blaming this on two things. Firstly, I\u2019ve managed to accidentally nuke a few draft posts that were \u2018in process\u2019 \u2013 this was pretty stupid. Secondly, I\u2019ve been failing in my mission. Or at least half failing, but failing in the fun half. Succeeding in the dull half is not really succeeding at all.<\/p>\n

The mission is \u2018Play More, Spend Less\u2019. And I\u2019ve been hardly playing at all. A couple of games of Warhammer Invasion when I can squeeze them in, and a short RuneQuest campaign I participated in. Though I\u2019ve tried to plan a games evening (I have held one of the four I intended to by this time in the year), I\u2019m trying to use it to get people round to visit who don\u2019t normally come \u2013 so this too, is failing. I can blame a lot of things (increased demands on time, trying to make one games night do multiple things, etc etc) but ultimately, it\u2019s down to me not setting aside time to play games.<\/p>\n

I have managed to save money by not buying new things \u2013 indeed, selling off all of my old Star Trek CCG cards has allowed me to grab a new television \u2013 but that\u2019s not exactly fun. It\u2019s nice, once I got past the hoarder\u2019s natural instinct of \u201cBut that\u2019s my stuff!\u201d but it\u2019s not exactly fun. Certainly not as fun as playing games, which is why we\u2019re all here.<\/p>\n

This all came to a head this week when, on a rare day off work, I was told by my wife in a games store \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter how much that rulebook is \u2013 would you play it<\/em>, since we don\u2019t play the other games as it is?\u201d<\/p>\n

This hit me like a brick. For one thing, it\u2019s a really nice rulebook. Heavy, hardcover, bionics and spaceship battles. What more could you want? Well, the time to play it, obviously, and the blessing of She Who Must Be Obeyed. It was at that moment that I realised that spending less on games was the trivial part of the frugal gamer\u2019s mission \u2013 the gaming more part was actually, counter-intuitively, the harder part!<\/p>\n

Despite the busy social schedule for the next couple of months, I\u2019m going to try to remedy this by scheduling some roleplaying games in to kick life back into a long-left WFRP game. I\u2019ll also try to sneak some zombie-themed games into a zombie-themed movie evening (to celebrate the new telly).<\/p>\n

Hopefully, between planning games, playing games, and the other commitments which prevent the other two I\u2019ll have some time to at least write some game reviews to put up here. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted at Year of Frugal Gaming I\u2019ll cut past the \u2018hello, is this thing on\u2019 and just straight up apologise \u2013 Sorry I\u2019ve not written anything here for a while. Today, I\u2019ll be blaming this on two things. Firstly, I\u2019ve managed to accidentally nuke a few draft posts that were \u2018in process\u2019 \u2013 this … <\/p>\n

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