25 June 2025

Reluctance

I am making no progress on some gaming fronts and it hit me why.

I'm not going to get to use what I've figured out.

The incentive to finish it is gone knowing that there's no players.

Not even players I've never met running a game with a GM that isn't me.

Doing it in GURPS means that 99.9% of TTRPG people reject it immediately.

The group I played with before I moved to Florida abandoned GURPS pretty much as soon as my taillights were hidden by terrain.

My hand has hovered over the "delete" button on my gaming folder on the hard drive more than once.

I like playing around with it, but it's become random here and there.

FuzzyGeff doesn't even seem interested in talking about it anymore.

He's moved on to Pathfinder.

C'est La Vie. 

Posted by Angus McThag at 14:33
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  1. FuzzyGeff25 June, 2025 17:21

    Wait, no, we've had some GURPS since you left. Most recently, we have two GMs trading off, one week Pathfinder, one week GURPS. If I failed to mention that, my late-night memory blanking is more serious than I thought it was.

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  2. Software Janitor25 June, 2025 21:09

    I still think GURPS is probably the best RPG system, but I'll have to be honest that I've not done any actual gaming in... years. Many years. Not living in proximity to people I know that game is an issue, and I moved away from that 24 years ago. But my attempts to find anyone local that would accept me into the fold so to speak have always turned up empty. Regardless of gaming system or genre. Despite the fact that I live in ostensibly SJG's back yard too. What gaming groups I've found locally are mostly using other systems. Warhammer, D20 or Pathfinder mostly. And most of them are not very active or not accepting new people or very wary of outsiders. And it seems to have gotten worse post-Covid. A lot of in-person activities dried up and part of that I suppose is that a lot of people into RPGs are liberals and crazily enough a lot of those people still wring their hands over Covid fears. I was in the grocery store the other day and there was a whole family of people all still wearing N20 masks. Dumbasses (doing my best Foreman impression).
    -swj

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