The real fantasy element of Dungeons & Dragons is pretending that you have a group of friends who all get along with each other and can manage to meet regularly for four hours at a time.
(Originally published on hachyderm.io: 2024-02-04)
Not since 2000s when I moved to a different country and most of the friends started to get married and create offsprings…
We still talk and maintain a healthy whatsapp group.
This hits too close to home.
Hands up those who have more RPG sourcebooks than opportunities to play?
look…
Which is why I haven’t played since college.
I’d join a campaign with you.😎👍
Moooddd
not regularly since graduating uni in 2002, and not at all since our DM’s wife had their kid in 2012
yep yep yep. It’s why I solo with Mythic GM Emulator. :ablobcattrash:
I’ve reached middle age and still have yet to play D&D. I should probably turn in my nerd card. 😂
I call it the “gygaxian effect” or "if it’s not for everybody then it not for anybody… "
Yea I think he was a real tool.
both of them
Testify.
we got around this by setting up a large group, and having subsets of 3-7 people meeting randomly for 1- and 2-shots. every once in a while there’s a 6-session or so mini-campaign to take care of something very significant. sessions are all on VC (but not VTT) to spare everyone the travel time and also allow players from a variety of geolocations. if someone drops from drama, the game survives.
the setup worked well during pandemic lockdown. at least then, everyone had lots of time.
So far my teen daughter and her friends are trying! They in basement right now struggling to get zoom running on her Linux Mint laptop because the GM graduated last year and they have to video them in! LoL
My current group met every Thursday for 14 years, starting in the 70s. These days they meet at least weekly online- still, it’s all a a matter of timing.
