Susofrick wrote:Why do people have hobbies? Why do people play in bands that neverever will leave the rehearsal room (guilty!)?
I can answer that one- because making music with some like minded dudes is the best thing and being famous for it is only a by product, and to the sane mind- one with many drawbacks.
For me its making things, as I kid I had figures and I would make gaming boards, and I had a sand pit I would carefully dampen and make desert trenches and ravines and shell holes in. I would save up cardboard and make knight Armour and castles and armored cars for my he-man and action man. My granddad and dad would make wooden shields and swords with me, and help me fashion Indian headdresses from feathers and all sorts.
History I grew to love, mainly through knights and castles, from visits to castles with my parents, and latterly world war 1 and 2.
This sort of combines those two things for me. Even as a child I never "gamed" much with my figures. I would make great terrain, and paint them, but my "playing" would almost be setting up a series of snap shots of a battle progressing, not the "arhhggghh he shot you your dead" sort of stuff.
It is very true as Thomas said, my motivation has changed little in 20 odd years, only now my Armour is sheet metal not card, and my figures are much better, based on this pattern I do not invisage a whole deal of change in my focus over the next 25 years or so