MGibster
Legend
Towards the end of of 2019, I tried to start a Vampire 5th edition campaign with some people I didn't know very well. I posted on my FLG's Facebook page that I was looking for a group and I managed to put together a group of five people. After some back and forth, we picked a day for us all to get together for a session zero and to make our characters. Only two people showed up on time, a third was pretty late, and a fourth showed up really, really late and one person didn't show up at all. Ultimately the campaign never got off the ground because so many people couldn't commit to showing up on a regular basis even though we all settled on this specific day, time, and place. I had forgotten how flakey gamers can be. C'est la vie. (Give that COVID would hit shortly thereafter it was probably a good thing the campaign didn't get off the ground.)
I'm spoiled. For a little over a decade, I've had a regular group of players I've been meeting with every Sunday. Four of the players (plus me) make up the core that's been there the whole time, and we've rotated another 1-2 players every few years. They're a reliable bunch of people and I could depend on them to show up for game night. Not all the time of course, life happens, but as a general rule I could count on them being there. They made good characters, they were always fun to game with, and while I was the primary DM, there were four other people who would occasionally run a game!
You may have noticed I'm writing in the past tense. Alas, two members of the group are moving out of the country, probably for at least five years, and when they return to the states there's a real possibility they won't settle here. While I'm happy for my friends, it's the end of an era for all of us. The remaining members of our little group are making plans on where we'd like to play, but we'll need to see about getting more players. So we're going to have some trial an error when it comes to getting more people in our group. There are going to be folks who we don't really care for and there are going to be folks who end up not caring for us.
Anyway, just thought I'd vent my spleen.
I'm spoiled. For a little over a decade, I've had a regular group of players I've been meeting with every Sunday. Four of the players (plus me) make up the core that's been there the whole time, and we've rotated another 1-2 players every few years. They're a reliable bunch of people and I could depend on them to show up for game night. Not all the time of course, life happens, but as a general rule I could count on them being there. They made good characters, they were always fun to game with, and while I was the primary DM, there were four other people who would occasionally run a game!
You may have noticed I'm writing in the past tense. Alas, two members of the group are moving out of the country, probably for at least five years, and when they return to the states there's a real possibility they won't settle here. While I'm happy for my friends, it's the end of an era for all of us. The remaining members of our little group are making plans on where we'd like to play, but we'll need to see about getting more players. So we're going to have some trial an error when it comes to getting more people in our group. There are going to be folks who we don't really care for and there are going to be folks who end up not caring for us.
Anyway, just thought I'd vent my spleen.
