I manage to play in a one shot game maybe once a year if I'm lucky, but I haven't had a chance to play in a campaign in probably over a decade. I had kinda given up on playing with strangers, there were just one too many random groups that I didn't mesh with; and besides, I had managed to pull together a solid group of friends over the years and we kept the two campaigns I ran afloat for a damn long time.
Over time, I became the only one who had a work schedule that allowed room for all the DM prep work. I was always the one who lived centrally for the rest of the group, and I was the only one who bothered to always designate a room in their house as a game room.
Now however, I've been game-less for almost 3 years. The members of my group somehow managed to become grownups while I wasn't paying attention and even though we can usually manage a game night or three every month, it's rarely the entire group, and the focus is entirely board games.
