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Aug. 17th, 2006 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerLord Peter Wimsey says something fairly witty at one point about the dangers of riding two hobby horses--if only I had only two! I think one of the reasons "modern" life is so hectic is because we all have so many "leisure" activities (or, in the case of the less fortunate, too many jobs to allow for *any* leisure...)
I've been re-bitten by the ASL bug recently as a result of an email exchange with my friend The Gaijin. ASL in this context is not American Sign Language but Advanced Squad Leader, a wargame with a hugely complex set of rules and a large mix of pieces and geomorphic boards that can be sorted into an immense number of configurations. There are well over 2,600 published scenarios, or separate games, that can be played with it, and scores of campaigns, or meta-scenarios, where players play several scenarios in a row and evaluate thir success across all of them combined.
Problem is, this is only *one* game, and a complex one at that. I can only cozen my friends into learning so many :-), and we've got a full slate at the moment. The folks with whom I play military games regularly are onboard with several different miniature games, and while there's a local ASL club it's hard to find the *time* to attend their meetings, what with miniature games, soccer, hiking, cycling, traveling, and just plain reading, listening to music, watching telly/movies, and relaxing. Let alone things I'd like to be doing, like learning to play the guitar, learning to sail, doing some volunteer work
Poor, poor me. :-) What a hard life!
I've been re-bitten by the ASL bug recently as a result of an email exchange with my friend The Gaijin. ASL in this context is not American Sign Language but Advanced Squad Leader, a wargame with a hugely complex set of rules and a large mix of pieces and geomorphic boards that can be sorted into an immense number of configurations. There are well over 2,600 published scenarios, or separate games, that can be played with it, and scores of campaigns, or meta-scenarios, where players play several scenarios in a row and evaluate thir success across all of them combined.
Problem is, this is only *one* game, and a complex one at that. I can only cozen my friends into learning so many :-), and we've got a full slate at the moment. The folks with whom I play military games regularly are onboard with several different miniature games, and while there's a local ASL club it's hard to find the *time* to attend their meetings, what with miniature games, soccer, hiking, cycling, traveling, and just plain reading, listening to music, watching telly/movies, and relaxing. Let alone things I'd like to be doing, like learning to play the guitar, learning to sail, doing some volunteer work
Poor, poor me. :-) What a hard life!
