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| The Olympic spirit is actually a noble thing |
Right this has actually been sitting in my 'draft' pile of articles now for a fair few weeks, probably over a month. It sat at about 60% complete the first Sunday it missed it's allocated slot. then it probably crept up to 65% complete the following Sunday, as I struggled to get the time together in front of the computer to sufficiently complete it. It has been a really slow process, but it has allowed me to re-read over the ideas and contributions that you all plonked down in The Olympic Spirit Sunday Sermon. You see I've often talked with wargamers over my years of hobbying about the 'implied contract' between us wargamers. We've often spoken about what our hobby is at its core. What is it that we as gamers expect as the bare minimum from this hobby we love? Are there some common threads? Things we can all agree on as being of vital importance to our hobby? I had slowly started to believe there were.
True many hobbyists play wargames for many different and divergent reasons, from the camaraderie, right through to the competitive aspects, via pomp and ceremony, theater and narrative and many more I've probably forgotten to mention. We all come to the hobby wanting to take out of it what we want, what we need to get our enjoyment. Guess what? So does the person over the table from you, sometimes we forget that, and while we very rarely talk about it openly before a game, we all know that our hobby is in some respects uniquely reliant on the other person standing across the table from us. Without them we'd just be playing with our own painted collection of Barbie dolls really. You know, making "pew pew" noises and gargled sounds as we pretended to kill off the other side. Hell maybe that's a little bit more mature than actually rolling dice and comparing stats... it's just no where near as much fun is it?
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