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The Next Campaign: How to Invest My Limited Gaming Time

I'm distraught, trying to whittle down what my next investment of gaming time should be.  I tried to put together a GM's Pathfinder game with rotating GMs, but that fell through due to lack of interest.  I am still considering playing in a Pathfinder game or perhaps GMing a Pathfinder game.  I've considered putting together a Ponyfinder game.  I've even looked at a Dark Sun campaign in 5e.

I am distraught that Pathfinder has blown apart with so much bloat and so many classes that it is almost unplayable in some sense.  Maybe I will host a Pathfinder game with just a couple of core books and custom races.

I've been thinking of resurrecting an old project for a new world for Pathfinder.  This world would have all custom races from the start.  It could be interesting, as it engages elements of both Dark Sun and a small world type campaign.  The custom races is becoming a challenge, because I really need visuals of the races.  Maybe I should spend some time image searching for inspiration.

Still, I really want to play in a Pathfinder campaign.  They are hard to find with the same story all over -- too many players, too few GMs.

Still other parts of my hobby could use some more time.  I still have hundreds of miniatures to paint, terrain to build, and a Pathfinder cyberpunk path to rewrite.

And I've been mulling over a new project, a tech project, drawing on some of my other skills.  I've been thinking about how to write an AI GM.

In the background, I've been mulling over what I really want to do in the bigger scheme of things.  Where do I want to live, what job do I want to have, what do I want to show for life.  Its a weird way to spend time, thinking between life and gaming.  Still, at the end of the day, I think all that any of us can do is figure out what we want to do, and do it.
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