This. I like DMing for ttrpgs, and I love drawing and painting. You’d think I’d be extatic about prepping homebrew and assets for a digitally run Savage Worlds campaign set Tamriel (or a weird homebrew mix of cyberpunk and vampire the masquerade), the truth is I’m more than just a bit burned out.
I want to start the campaign now, and I’ve had the story and characters ready to go for a month now, but prepping all those art assets has been tedious. So far I’ve done about 20+ tokens, 5+ maps, 15 character portraits, and some 10 general purpose pieces to aid narration. I got about 7 tokens left and I’m done, and I can barely get one out a day, every other day.
The worst thing is I have a very clear idea of what I want the campaign to look like and I’ve already made concessions by using RPG Engine to design my maps instead of doing it all by hand and just retouching it later. I don’t want to make any more concessions, so I’m SOL.
I’d say just start the campaign and then create the rest as you go along. You’ve given yourself enough slack to be able to do it at a leisurely pace, especially for how scheduling can go with a ttrpg, plus, you never know when your party will basically make you throw out all your hard work because they wanted to go to the whorehouse instead of the expected direction which leads to the activation of the quest.
I used to fucking love harder video games. I grew up with Nintendo Hard. Now, even easy games are bugging the shit out of me, and the hard games are infuriating and cause me to rage quit (looking at you Hollow Knight).
This is the fault of an overly stressful existence, and mobile games starting off to easy so they lure you in. You have to find something else engaging at this point I. Most games beyond the actual gameplay aspect, like story, or art style. It doesn’t help that everything seems to be a rehash or a sequel to something that was released in the past.
It doesn’t help that everything seems to be a rehash or a sequel to something that was released in the past.
This literally describes everything in human history including entertainment, and the older I become the more apparent it is. Coming to accept that is comforting, and I can once again enjoy something just because it reminds me of something else.
Except why didn’t they learn from the earlier stuff! Arrrgggghhhhhh!
Sometimes I don’t know if I am actually depressed, or if it’s just that video games mostly suck now. Or both. I barely can be arsed to play anything, and even when I do I feel nothing. 😔
That’s rough mate. The nothing is just a void, emptiness and it’s hard living with that. It sounds more like depression to me. Have you reached out at [email protected] they’re really supportive
I know that feeling well.
Half the videos games now make you run around doing the regular life shit that you can’t achieve in the real world so why would we be able to do it in the game?
Idk dude. I think I flipped a switch and now just playing games doesn’t do it for me because what’s the point really? There’s too many and too many of them are just cash grabs. I can basically only play old or indie games and only if I stream it so that my friend who’s depressed can get some virtual company.
I don’t regret having spent so much time with games but I guess there’s a time and place.
That’s so sweet and thoughtful of you to stream it for your friend. <3
I never got board of gaming, my taste just changed from stuff like shooters and action to Factorio and Rimworld. Most big game franchises are corpo slop with gambling mechanics anyways.
Factory games make me shudder because it just feels like actual work.
Infinite dopamine glitch. I can’t stop lol.
I’m jealous. When it’s like “wait so I have to destroy then redo my factory from scratch so that I can now make gizmos” I become frustrated and leave. I also dislike resource gathering because that feels like actual work.
You get to a point where you realize you screwed up, move over and build it better using the output of the first factory. Once you get bots set up, you copy paste to scale up.
That’s why I have to “beat” these games twice
The first time I’m just figuring out what needs to be done, how the resources work, etc, the second time I optimize the hell out of it and drop 200 hours making things perfect, then I stop feeling any urge to play it ever again.
I hate when I plan a specific “fun” activity for a specific time (like firing up a new server and testing it after kids go to bed), but when the time comes to do said task, my brain goes “nah, [other thing] is more fun” and suddenly it’s 2 weeks later and the initial activity has been successfully avoided.
It’s like two parts of my brain are fighting against each other. Drives me absolutely insane.
Ha! At least your brain has the decency to recommend something else that’ll be more fun. Half the time my brain just says “nah” to whatever I was about to do without giving me any alternatives so I just sit there, for a while, thinking about other things I could do instead.
Eating is a hard one for me lately. Anything tougher than grabbing a banana is too much effort recently
Can confirm. I try to avoid fun because that requires energy.
Fun? What is fun?
Guilt and Obligation that’s all there is.
Is this an adhd thing or just a depression thing?
I definitely have this. It’s worse when I say I’m going to start a project like making a painting or something.
I miss having a Jacuzzi in my master bath. For some reason it made reading more enjoyable. It’s like it provided enough sensory stimulation to keep the “squirrels” occupied that I could soak in it and read a book without feeling bored. I love to read but I’ve done very little of it since I sold that house 5 years ago.
You might have the same kind of luck with a hammock or rocking chair. Some kind of tactile experience for you while you read.
ADHD meds cured my depression
And therapy
Both individually were more effective than antidepressants ever were.
Of the three if I could only pick one though it would be therapy
Of the three if I could only pick one though it would be therapy
How???
To use a nerd analogy you wouldn’t attempt to fix a system without first understanding that system.
Therapy teaches you to recognize the drivers behind your emotions and how to redirect mental energy in healthier and more productive ways. It rewires your internal dialogue.
Yeah, the right therapist can be a game change.
For me, actually having the words to express something and thinking more about why I avoid a situation helped me a lot.
