{"id":27112,"date":"2022-05-05T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/?p=27112"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:47:08","slug":"regaining-the-gaming-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/regaining-the-gaming-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Regaining The Gaming Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WHAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS STATE OF BURNOUT<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Shatter-Ad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27115 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Shatter-Ad-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Shatter-Ad-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Shatter-Ad.png 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>My life, by and large, is better than I deserve. But, my day job, the same one I\u2019ve toiled at since Bill Clinton was a topic of discussion, has been difficult these last six months. To put it in simple terms: It\u2019s been a game show of \u201cWill I Be Laid Off This Season\u201d amid an executive level project that was timed to conclude during said layoffs. Emotionally and hourly, it has been so all-consuming that it\u2019s robbed me of the time and spark that roleplaying requires.<\/p>\n<p>Let me qualify \u201cspark that roleplaying requires.\u201d I still <b>want<\/b> to roleplay. Hanging out and slinging dice is the height of good times. It\u2019s social, humorous, and a great opportunity to catch up with friends as you tell stories together. For me, it\u2019s more than just a good time, I enjoy it so much that my secondary job is freelance RPG journalism.<\/p>\n<p>But the main job has leveled up and maxed out its <i>Time Sink<\/i> attribute as well as its <i>Emotional Drain<\/i> stat. Daily, it beats me down. Then came a plot twist as shocking to me as that time your buddy sent you a drunk IM feeling you about going halvers on a bitcoin; you didn\u2019t expect it, but now it\u2019s a story to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, I\u2019ve talked about regaining my gaming spark and how cyberpunk played a role in that (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/regaining-the-gaming-spark-cyberpunk-and-cbrpnk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/tabletop-cyberpunker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). What follows is another part of the convoluted narrative of how I reclaimed my spark and found my way back to the gaming table.<\/p>\n<h2>HELL\u2019S ANGELS<\/h2>\n<p>The first ember ignited during an interview I did with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/hell-night-an-interview-with-gavriel-quiroga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gavriel Quiroga about the Kickstarter<\/a> for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/gavrielquiroga\/hell-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Hell Night RPG<\/i><\/a>. He describes the project as:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HELL-NIGHT-05.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27117 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HELL-NIGHT-05-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HELL-NIGHT-05-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HELL-NIGHT-05.jpeg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the roaring 80s, and Hell just broke loose. Literally. <i>HELL NIGHT<\/i>. A doom biker RPG rule-artbook inspired by badass metal covers and the spirit of a strange decade. Ride beyond and behold!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the interview I asked about what inspired the doom bikers. He shared:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all came together after reading <i>Hell\u2019s Angels<\/i> from Hunter S. Thompson, that gave me the ideological support so to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never heard of that book, but when it was on sale via Audible, I bought Hunter S Thompson\u2019s <i>Hell&#8217;s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs<\/i> from Random House. Now, I\u2019m not going to recommend the book, it\u2019s from a different sort of person than I am and treats crimes, unrepentant racism, and individuals that are accused of the R-word as subjects fit for crafted entertainment journalism. The book is in your face and celebrates the disregard of human decency. Published in 1967, 55 years later, it has to be viewed from a different reference point. I don\u2019t want to delve too deep into that, because the focus here is more simplistic: The core of the book is the story of when outlaw bikers went mainstream. Despite my lack of knowledge, the book planted a seed with the phrase \u201coutlaw bikers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But more on that in the next installment.<\/p>\n<h2>BILL WILLINGHAM\u2019S ELEMENTALS<\/h2>\n<p>Before I start on the next leg of my journey, let me wander off on a tangent. I used to love comics. I have tens of thousands of them littered across the house. At one point, I was an avid collector. Then I stopped for reasons too boring to get into. Now I\u2019m a one-off collector of comics by friends like Steven Cummings, Wilfredo Torres, Edgar Salazar, and the occasional graphic novel. I haven\u2019t really collected comics in years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elementals-6-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27116 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elementals-6-Cover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elementals-6-Cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elementals-6-Cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Jump to a Facebook scrawl in which the geek topic of the day is Bill Willingham\u2019s <i>Elementals, <\/i>a 1980s and \u201890s superhero comic book series from Comico: The Comic Company. Specifically, the newsfeed touts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7SVmO1alL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube intervie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7SVmO1alL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">w with Bill Willingham<\/a> which purports that his creation, the <i>Elementals<\/i>, are in the public domain. It\u2019s more complex than that and I do not have the bandwidth to dissect the implications here, but the concept interested me enough to explore it.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of this semi-known property falling into the public domain intrigued me. Here\u2019s the math: If the <i>Elementals<\/i> are public domain, then the concepts and printed work exists in a state where you might take those characters and images and convert them from comics into an RPG without having to license the property. Again, what Willingham offered was more complex than that, but it could open a door which was interesting to ponder.<\/p>\n<p>But, to ponder it, I\u2019d need to read some <i>Elementals<\/i> comics. I don\u2019t own many issues of the <i>Elementals<\/i>. Yep, all of these thoughts and I don\u2019t own more than one or two random issues. Running from 1983 to 1996, those books started coming out just before I got into comics in the \u201880s. When I joined the hobby, they did not grab me. Until 2022, when they were 30 to 40 years in the rearview, they rotted in some back issue dollar bins at my neighborhood comic book store, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realKapowComics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapow! Comics and Games<\/a> (not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/\">Ka-<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blam Printers<\/a>). An exhaustive search of their bins netted one issue, <i>Elementals #4<\/i> from 1985. It was a cool find, but a single dollar comic didn\u2019t feel like it was worth the gas or the time.<\/p>\n<h2>NEXT TIME<\/h2>\n<p>Enter <i>Shatter<\/i>: \u201cThe First Computerized Comic!\u201d In the next installment, I\u2019ll circle this random 1980s comic series back to my love of tabletop, cyberpunk RPGs, and how I regained my spark.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Egg Embry participates in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, Noble Knight Games\u2019 Affiliate Program, and is an Amazon Associate. These programs provide advertising fees by linking to DriveThruRPG, Noble Knight Games, and Amazon.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WHAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS STATE OF BURNOUT My life, by and large, is better than I deserve. 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