FIFTH EDITION ISNT FLEXIBLE IT ISNT DO-WHAT-YOU-WANT IT MAKES VERY SPECIFIC GENRE ASSUMPTIONS YOUR HOMEBREW IS DOING BARELY LESS WORK THAN JUST PICKING UP A NEW GAME AND IT PLAYS LIKE SHIT AAAAAAAAA
Hey, you, person who always DMs 5e and finds it exhausting and wants a break
If you live in a city or just have a shopping district near you, you can search for a game store near you, maybe a wargaming store or hobby shop. Somewhere with Magic: the Gathering cards behind glass and Vampire: the Masquerade books on the shelf.
If you find one, you can go to the counter and ask the cashier if they host ttrpgs. Strike up a conversation, mention that you're not really interested in D&D. They might have a discord server; join it and look around. If you've been reading a cool system, mayne mention it.
Now find a game. It might take a couple false starts before you find a group you gel with, but do try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Congrats! You no longer need to rely on that old group of friends of you want to play rpgs.
You have leverage now. Talk to your friends; tell them that you don't want to DM for a bit. Stand your ground, and know that you're not relying on them any more.
If the old group would rather stop playing than step up, you now have the new group to play with! Recognize that they were expecting something from you that they wouldn't do themselves, and maybe just weren't that into D&D. Do movie nights, maybe?
If one of them DOES step up, then congrats! You're now playing in two games!
And if they get really upset and try to coerce you, maybe stop giving them your time at all.
I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.
For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.
When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.
At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
when i was really little and had just learned how to write my full name . i noticed my twin brother had really messy handwriting. while mine was like … as nice as it could be for a little kid. so i wrote my name in his handwriting on a wall and i waited to see who our parents would get mad at . and they blamed him. and that was when my life of crime began
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