Arts & Crafts & D & D

D&D is funner when you make things.

I run late to my D&D game most of the time. I get home from work late, and rarely have my crap together ahead of time.

But I still try to make time to put together index cards with stats on them, and collect miniatures to represent monsters, and schlep it all to the game. I've even started trying to paint miniatures, although I don't think of that as fun, so much as achieving a finished product. One of my players has offered to make terrain, and I'm trying to figure out how to turn him loose on that without giving stuff away, because that sounds like a blast.

In the past couple of months, I've gotten on the cardstock modeling bandwagon (it's a very small bandwagon). I've been assembling paper trees and cliffs and bridges. I don't even have a plan for it yet, I'm just doing it because... it's fun? Is this a previously unrecognized form of fun?

One night, as I was applying glue stick to an index card, I once again paused to reflect how faintly ridiculous the whole thing is. But what hobby isn't faintly ridiculous?