I've just sent the message I've been rewriting for months to my D&D group, about my mental struggles and why we haven't been playing. My main fear was that if they knew I'm not feeling ok all the time, they could never enjoy our sessions again. This fear kept me from telling them how I feel, but at the same time, I couldn't continue playing and pretending everything is fine, while it clearly wasn't. I've been working on my mental health, and I think I'm finally more at peace with whatever comes out of this. But I still hope I managed to get across what I feel and that they'll take it well. I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing the right thing and I'm likely overthinking things. But thank you for the video, it gave me a bit more courage.
Usually the truth will be the less painfull way in the long run! You can be proud of yourself for staying true to yourself and also being brave enough to take care of your mental health! Not wanting to be a burden is something I can relate deeply with, but I have also realized that holding in those feelings to yourself and not asking for help might sometimes create even more trouble. So I think you have done well.
Hi Walter, thanks to your videos, I will finally be getting off my arse, and starting my first solo RPG tomorrow! Also, this week, I am going to paint my first miniature for 20+ years! So keep up the good work, mate!
I needed this, thanks for the inspiration. Been struggling a lot with my own creative writing, solo RPGs, and I also have been wanting to start a UA-cam channel as well just for my own creative expression. I feel paralyzed creatively, which is frustrating because when I was younger, I had so many ideas, and always acted on them by making short stories, scripts, and videos. As the years go on and the more socially drawn back I’ve become, and how much time/energy I’ve wasted, I fear that I have nothing to say anymore, not just to others but to myself as well. Just beginning to reconnect with that part of myself feels impossible sometimes. My mind just goes blank and then I lament the loss of what I used to have. I hope everyone struggling out there(myself included) can overcome their barriers to creating. Be they internal or external.
Thank you for your thoughts. I also think we tend to mix things up in our heads when we get older. We feel like we cant be novices anymore because we are older, but it is always totally okay to try something new or be in the middle of the process. I love the thought process of kids, when they are like "I am going to draw" and when you ask them " well what are you going to draw" they usually just answer " I dont know yet" and just start drawing. That is definitely an attitude I want to adapt to my life from time to time.
Hey Walther, thanks for the video! I really feel your sentiment, as for many times I have wondered if it's worth to try and keep pursuing TTRPGs solo gaming... I have played TTRPGs with my friends many times, but as of today our frequency has been almost zero for a while... But since I love this hobby so much, I have opted to playing solo whenever I can. In reality, I end up many times picking a game up and/or creating characters and/or playing for a while but dropping it, to the point where I ask myself if in the end I'm just wasting time with all of this. I also have a dream of one day creating something for the community at large (a module/adventure, or a system, or any sort of content), but feel like I have nothing to add, at least at the moment. This video is a good motivation to keep trying, to keep taking action. Thanks!
I encourage you to keep at it! There is a reason you have come back time and time again! Every individual moment you have had has been worth creating. You have done really well so far in my opinion!
Hey Walther, I found your videos looking up some Mythic GME examples because I am a kinaesthetic learner and I wanted an example to follow along. I not only found it really helpful, but I found myself really compelled with the way you shaped the story and kept things moving in an interesting way. I'll keep things brief, but about 10 years ago, I shut down creatively pretty hard and I suffered heavily for it. I played guitar, GM'd games, wrote stories, and even drew characters. The shutdown happened from some life stuff and being surrounded by people who did not like to see me happy, I'll just put it that way. Recently, I have been getting back into the TTRPG hobby and I have exploded creatively, Imagine keeping that kind of valve closed for almost a decade. I solo game because I just can't stop imagining and exercising the creation process and you helped immensely with that. I can't really put into words how great those Mythic videos were for me. I am writing a custom setting and a campaign for my wife and group of friends who are all kind of flabbergasted at this side of me (hopefully in a good way) and the amount of output I am doing. Maybe I'll publish it one day, but it is loosely based on Final Fantasy and would need some serials scrubbed off or the parent companies approval, heh. So thank you for the kind words and for your videos! I hope to see you keep making stuff and getting more reach!
First of all, thank you for the video. I think most of us need someone to tell us that "Hey, you are doing good even if you put yourself down". I have been having problems with my confidence since I was young due to many years of bullying in school to the point where I don't take compliments easily. I always first think that the person complimenting me is either lying or trying to deceive/make fun of me somehow. However, I am lucky enough to now have some friends who compliment me on stuff like my GMing and general caring for others' experience while playing ttrpgs. This video has done an amazing job to get me smiling and wanting to work on the stuff I've been semi working on for a system that my friends and I will be trying soon. Again, thank you for an amazing video.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, even tho some of them are painful, I feel like there are many people who can empathise and find your words encouraging!
@@CRP-Waltteri you should do it. I never draw in my life but now I watch my daughters do it and they made me want to learn it 🙂 It’s so relaxing in a world that social media and digitalisation took over our lives. I try to use use it as little as possible 🙂
I just happen to be planning the first in-person TTRPG I will have run in a while; probably something based off of the Basic Roleplaying system by Chaosium. I'm nervous, and recruiting in an area of my size is a non-trivial task for something that is not D&D, but I feel optimistic. I learned quite a bit from both playing and running a game online. I hope this will be better for the players as well, I'm a different (hopefully better?) person than I was like, 9 years ago (!), and I plan to bring that energy to the table. Thank you for the video.
Good luck with the new group! And remember. As a GM you are a part of the group as well, not a differentiated entity. Your enjoyment is equally important as anyone else's around the table. And also making a successful game is equally up to the players as well. So if you all just sit down with an open mind and heart, it should go just great! Good luck!
Hey, I have been wanting to play with the Burning Wheel RPG. I had already read the book, and I had already finished the character "burning" process, and I already had a plan about what I wanted to try with the system, but I hadn't taken the step to actually play. This morning I woke up thinking about it. I journaled a bit, and realized that before playing an actual session, I needed to copy everything over to a real 4-page "character sheet". It took hours, but I copied over everything from one thing to another. I didn't get around to playing, as I had wanted to do, but I did fill out the character sheet, so hopefully next time I can just get going. Best wishes!
I've just sent the message I've been rewriting for months to my D&D group, about my mental struggles and why we haven't been playing. My main fear was that if they knew I'm not feeling ok all the time, they could never enjoy our sessions again. This fear kept me from telling them how I feel, but at the same time, I couldn't continue playing and pretending everything is fine, while it clearly wasn't. I've been working on my mental health, and I think I'm finally more at peace with whatever comes out of this. But I still hope I managed to get across what I feel and that they'll take it well. I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing the right thing and I'm likely overthinking things. But thank you for the video, it gave me a bit more courage.
Usually the truth will be the less painfull way in the long run! You can be proud of yourself for staying true to yourself and also being brave enough to take care of your mental health! Not wanting to be a burden is something I can relate deeply with, but I have also realized that holding in those feelings to yourself and not asking for help might sometimes create even more trouble. So I think you have done well.
Hi Walter, thanks to your videos, I will finally be getting off my arse, and starting my first solo RPG tomorrow!
Also, this week, I am going to paint my first miniature for 20+ years!
So keep up the good work, mate!
That is so awesome! have fun!
I needed this, thanks for the inspiration. Been struggling a lot with my own creative writing, solo RPGs, and I also have been wanting to start a UA-cam channel as well just for my own creative expression. I feel paralyzed creatively, which is frustrating because when I was younger, I had so many ideas, and always acted on them by making short stories, scripts, and videos. As the years go on and the more socially drawn back I’ve become, and how much time/energy I’ve wasted, I fear that I have nothing to say anymore, not just to others but to myself as well. Just beginning to reconnect with that part of myself feels impossible sometimes. My mind just goes blank and then I lament the loss of what I used to have. I hope everyone struggling out there(myself included) can overcome their barriers to creating. Be they internal or external.
Thank you for your thoughts. I also think we tend to mix things up in our heads when we get older. We feel like we cant be novices anymore because we are older, but it is always totally okay to try something new or be in the middle of the process. I love the thought process of kids, when they are like "I am going to draw" and when you ask them " well what are you going to draw" they usually just answer " I dont know yet" and just start drawing. That is definitely an attitude I want to adapt to my life from time to time.
Hey Walther, thanks for the video! I really feel your sentiment, as for many times I have wondered if it's worth to try and keep pursuing TTRPGs solo gaming... I have played TTRPGs with my friends many times, but as of today our frequency has been almost zero for a while... But since I love this hobby so much, I have opted to playing solo whenever I can. In reality, I end up many times picking a game up and/or creating characters and/or playing for a while but dropping it, to the point where I ask myself if in the end I'm just wasting time with all of this. I also have a dream of one day creating something for the community at large (a module/adventure, or a system, or any sort of content), but feel like I have nothing to add, at least at the moment. This video is a good motivation to keep trying, to keep taking action. Thanks!
I encourage you to keep at it! There is a reason you have come back time and time again! Every individual moment you have had has been worth creating. You have done really well so far in my opinion!
Hey Walther, I found your videos looking up some Mythic GME examples because I am a kinaesthetic learner and I wanted an example to follow along. I not only found it really helpful, but I found myself really compelled with the way you shaped the story and kept things moving in an interesting way.
I'll keep things brief, but about 10 years ago, I shut down creatively pretty hard and I suffered heavily for it. I played guitar, GM'd games, wrote stories, and even drew characters. The shutdown happened from some life stuff and being surrounded by people who did not like to see me happy, I'll just put it that way. Recently, I have been getting back into the TTRPG hobby and I have exploded creatively, Imagine keeping that kind of valve closed for almost a decade. I solo game because I just can't stop imagining and exercising the creation process and you helped immensely with that. I can't really put into words how great those Mythic videos were for me.
I am writing a custom setting and a campaign for my wife and group of friends who are all kind of flabbergasted at this side of me (hopefully in a good way) and the amount of output I am doing. Maybe I'll publish it one day, but it is loosely based on Final Fantasy and would need some serials scrubbed off or the parent companies approval, heh. So thank you for the kind words and for your videos! I hope to see you keep making stuff and getting more reach!
That sounds so wonderful! We are so lucky that it is never too late to pick up where we last left of, just like with old friends! Keep creating!
First of all, thank you for the video. I think most of us need someone to tell us that "Hey, you are doing good even if you put yourself down".
I have been having problems with my confidence since I was young due to many years of bullying in school to the point where I don't take compliments easily. I always first think that the person complimenting me is either lying or trying to deceive/make fun of me somehow. However, I am lucky enough to now have some friends who compliment me on stuff like my GMing and general caring for others' experience while playing ttrpgs. This video has done an amazing job to get me smiling and wanting to work on the stuff I've been semi working on for a system that my friends and I will be trying soon.
Again, thank you for an amazing video.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, even tho some of them are painful, I feel like there are many people who can empathise and find your words encouraging!
Great massage! Thank you for the motivation 🙂 I’ll probably draw today and continue my solo RPG campaign.
That sounds so nice! I should propably pick up drawing again as well!
@@CRP-Waltteri you should do it. I never draw in my life but now I watch my daughters do it and they made me want to learn it 🙂 It’s so relaxing in a world that social media and digitalisation took over our lives. I try to use use it as little as possible 🙂
I just happen to be planning the first in-person TTRPG I will have run in a while; probably something based off of the Basic Roleplaying system by Chaosium. I'm nervous, and recruiting in an area of my size is a non-trivial task for something that is not D&D, but I feel optimistic. I learned quite a bit from both playing and running a game online.
I hope this will be better for the players as well, I'm a different (hopefully better?) person than I was like, 9 years ago (!), and I plan to bring that energy to the table.
Thank you for the video.
Good luck with the new group! And remember. As a GM you are a part of the group as well, not a differentiated entity. Your enjoyment is equally important as anyone else's around the table. And also making a successful game is equally up to the players as well. So if you all just sit down with an open mind and heart, it should go just great! Good luck!
Hey, I have been wanting to play with the Burning Wheel RPG. I had already read the book, and I had already finished the character "burning" process, and I already had a plan about what I wanted to try with the system, but I hadn't taken the step to actually play. This morning I woke up thinking about it. I journaled a bit, and realized that before playing an actual session, I needed to copy everything over to a real 4-page "character sheet". It took hours, but I copied over everything from one thing to another. I didn't get around to playing, as I had wanted to do, but I did fill out the character sheet, so hopefully next time I can just get going.
Best wishes!
Burning wheel is not an easy game! And you have already made tremendous steps towards playing it! Im sure you will get going in no time!