Suggestions for new hobby or project

[Board Game Geek]

Learn Warhammer 40K or Fantasy, build up an army, paint it, go on tournaments.

Learn Magic the Gathering, work up to Pro-level, and go on tournaments around the world and if you are good enough, you can makes 100K's,

Learn how to DM D&D or any other sort of RPG, invite friends over, run games for them.

Whatever you do, don't fall in to the trap that most of the population do, coming home from work, by turning on the Idiot Box and just vegetating.

Use the grey matter.

[minestrone]

Whatever you do, don't fall in to the trap that most of the population do, coming home from work, by turning on the Idiot Box and just vegetating.

Use the grey matter.

By the time Friday comes I quite enjoy watching the box and vegetating.

Over the previous week I will have spent 35 hours in the office, 15 hours commuting, 10-20 hours on plan b, 5 hours running, 4 hours playing the piano, going to see a game of football.

The weekend is all about drinking wine and doing nothing. Catching up on movies I have taped and watching the x factor

[norrahe]

Learn Warhammer 40K or Fantasy, build up an army, paint it, go on tournaments.

Learn Magic the Gathering, work up to Pro-level, and go on tournaments around the world and if you are good enough, you can makes 100K's,

Learn how to DM D&D or any other sort of RPG, invite friends over, run games for them.

get a life! Elric or old style warhammer is soooo much better ya big nerd

Airfix

[norrahe]

on a more serious note find a cookery course, discover your inner chef

[Board Game Geek]

get a life! Elric or old style warhammer is soooo much better ya big nerd

Airfix

Elric's ok (Stormbringer), but it's not a great system.

WFRPG otoh is superb, I agree.

Shadowrun is also a cracking game, as is CoC.

[krytonsheep]

Flying cheap electric RC planes with live video is getting fairly popular (FPV-First person viewing).

[minestrone]

I used to work in an 'independant games shop', Games Workshop were a bunch of little arseholes when they opened up. Constantly told my boss he would be out of business soon.

Warhammer was/is always a kiddies thing for kiddies. A pocket money stealer.

[TinTrump]

One Saturday I was upstairs reading in my bedroom when I spied a negligent dog owner let his mutt have a huge dump on the pavement. I decided to see how long it took before someone trod in the titanic turd; about an hour and a half. Can any readers beat that?*

This "activity" may keep you busy for one Friday/Saturday night in the summer. I should stress I have never repeated the experiment as I pretend to have a life.

*In homage to the Viz thread.

[gingerjedi]

Flying cheap electric RC planes with live video is getting fairly popular (FPV-First person viewing).

That's a cool video, I wish they showed what he was flying as it had some serious range and altitude.

Of course the stunning scenery helped make it look more appealing, Croydon wouldn't quite cut it in the same way.

[Board Game Geek]

I used to work in an 'independant games shop', Games Workshop were a bunch of little arseholes when they opened up. Constantly told my boss he would be out of business soon.

Warhammer was/is always a kiddies thing for kiddies. A pocket money stealer.

If you've seen the price of mini's lately, they are far out of the range of most kid's pocket money. The odd xmas and birthday pressie maybe.

Then we have Forgeworld for the over 30's with cash to splash.

I know a few folks who work in GW in one town and all of them are relieved that GW have reigned back their tyrannical approach as to what can and cannot be fielded in the shops gaming tables. The GW managers are self-determining now.

My other friends who run an independent gaming store for the mostly over-30's are doing very well. They sell GW at retail - 15%.

They also stock Flames of War which is a good system for WW2 mini battles, and more scenery for all genres than I have ever seen in a shop.

They also run Warhammer 40K and Fantasy tournaments, again for over 18+'s.

Still, I'd sooner see youngsters in GW, learning to paint, socialising, improving their reading and maths skills, than see them on street corners swigging white lightning and wearing hoodies and scaring grannies.