I have hobbies, who doesn't? But what are they, some people don't know, or more importantly they just don't care. And then they try to tell me what to do or how to spend my time, like what I do isn't good enough.
Now I would like to point out that I Role Play, or RP. That is where you build a character, usually very different from reality with magic or advanced technology, and then play out this character's life. Now 11.1 million people do this on the game World of Warcraft, many more on City of Heroes/ Villains, DC Universe online, Call of Duty and many many more. Yet I don't play those games, as much as I would like too. I play Dungeon and Dragons 3.5 and Old Word of Darkness, D&D3.5 and OWoD. And there is no computer.
OWoD I play in two version, Table Top and Live Action Role Play aka LARP, and I enjoy it. See what you do, with the rules given to you by the company White Wolf that invented the game, you build a character, we mostly use their vampire rules. From there, continuing with these rules you begin to act out or RP the character. Now there is another player or players that are called the Storyteller, ST, Game Master; GM, or Dungeon Master; DM, all doing the same thing, run the game by giving the players setting and other characters called NPCs(none playable characters) and coming up with the story that the Players' characters find themselves in.
Now this seems complicated and at times it is. But when I lost faith in my writing, this became a very creative outlet for me. Infact for a few years I was an ST for a LARP called Redmoon, which was alot of fun, and very stressful, yet worth it while I was there. But I like to look at it this, I am actually face to face with people who think on their feet and have so many great personalities, not seeing an orc from god knows where, again would play if I could.
Another great thing about these games are you can become who ever you want while still being safe. Rules prevent dangerous activities from getting out of hand and other people there to make sure you don't completely lose touch with reality, something I have never had issues with. See I once played a character that was down right evil.
His name was Mozenwrath the Relic Raider, and also called Taven Magi. He was a vampire and a powerful necromancer, magic that controls and manipulates the dead. He was asleep for hundred of years and didn't understand much of the modern world, calling a night rave club a demon temple and cell phones talk stones. Yet he knew one thing was still the same, people die. And he did horrible things to continue his study and manipulation of death. And it was fun, yet I never forgot I wasn't him and it was just a game.
So as long as I am having fun, and I don't let it run my life, why am I wrong and 11.1 million with expent brain power ok? I don't know, I don't care. I am having fun so tuff.
As this is about my hobbies, I will get into my other ones. In addition to RP I am a gamer in general. I like board games, card games and video games. I also enjoy reading and writing.
I like reading Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings series, the Silmarilion was the best in my opinion. American Gods was awesome and comic books. Reading is cool and I like it and love my Kindle.
Writing is a very funny hobby for me. I enjoy it very much which, if you ask my father is strange. It was once used as a punishment for me and I hated it. Now I enjoy it very much and love posting some of it online for you to read. Very odd indeed.
The stories and opinions of one of the Zaky Clan. Please feel free to comment, I would like the feed back.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Things I Do!
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