Ask Me Anything: CancerMan

Baseball is also my biggest hobby. Have you ever tried any sports TTRPGs?

The closest I came to a sports-related TTRPG was Blood Bowl.

That does not sound like a good time for me specifically

- Have you played any musical video games? Rhythm games, music-based level generation, musical storytelling, etc? Or maybe music-themed TTRPGS?
- Do you paint your miniatures? Or customize them in some way?
- Have you ever bought a game/some supplement more for its physical accessories than the gameplay? Like for specific miniatures, or pretty dice, or something of that kind?
- Do you like listening to music while doing something else?
- Have you ever had a character who had the same hobby as yourself in real life? :D

I tried my hand at Guitar Hero, but tht's about it. The game was fun, but I don't think music games are for me.

When I had more time to myself, I did customize and paint my miniatures. My avatar is one example of a painted miniature, and I have a few boxes of kit-bashed cobbled-up custom minis.

My foray into Warhammer 40K was basically borne from the interesting miniature designs. I remember walking out of a hobby store with a styrofoam box of miniatures because I thought they looked cool, and I didn't even know they were for a wargame.

Listening to music is probably the second thing I do every day besides breathing. Whenever I need to maintain some kind of personal focus (ie work, driving), I have a library of songs that generate the mental energy to keep me going. I've made playlists of music that I feel capture the essence of my D&D characters. Sometimes I just want to decompress and meditate, and I'll have something appropriate in the background.

I've not really created any character that had the same hobbies as myself. I don't know if it's because I don't think of my hobbies as special enough to put into a character, or if I just feel like my interests won't translate well into roleplay.

My first RPG books were AD&D 2nd edition books - I was...eight at the time? and had no idea what they were about, but I really liked the art and the flavor text. Similarly I can understand the miniature thing - they're just cool to look at!

Question - have you taken up any 3d printing, to make your own minis at all?

I have not. I could not justify the cost of purchasing a 3D printer nor its supplies for something I now lack the time to enjoy. I basically haven't touched any miniatures for the past 6 or 7 years.

Oooh, same! Do you have any songs in that library that you can listen to on loop without getting bored (while doing something else)?
Did you ever get inspired by a song to make a character, or a world, or a plot element? :)

Do you like musicals? Any favorites if yes? :D Have you seen Encanto?

You have several game-systems that you are familiar and comfortable with. What theme/setting could get you to jump into a brand new game system?

I have many songs that I can listen to repeatedly as I'm focused on other things. Some artists in this group include BAND-MAID and The Birthday Massacre, and on occasion I've had Unleash the Archers and video game soundtracks like Skyrim or Battletech.

For me, inspiration is the other way around; I often find music to fit a particular character or world. One example is an Innistrad D&D game where I've used the soundtracks from the anime Le Portrait de Petite Cossette and video game Alice: Madness Returns to keep me in the mood.

I'm ambivalent about musicals. Maybe it's because I like to feel them as stories rather than music, much like how I watch movies or TV shows. Not to say I don't like musicals, and I can say that Sweeney Todd and The Nightmare Before Christmas are yearly plays.

It's less about the theme or setting and more about learning another ruleset. I'm sure Pathfinder can fit the high-fantasy setting that I like from D&D, but I lack the time to learn Pathfinder enough to become comfortable playing. There may come a time when my life opens up enough to fit another system in, so the book's not yet closed on gaming.