How often do you guys meet up?
If your married with kids has that slowed down Your frequency in meeting up as usual?
Cover's some advice for husbands to prepare the house.
What have you guys encountered?
Any advice on making things as smooth as possible so game time happens?
Marry someone who is a gamer or someone who can be converted. Once that's done, Game with them every night.
Once you have kids, incorporate the kids into the gaming party.
That means you get to game a LOT more!!!
Of course, the downside is once your kids grow up and move away, you have a much smaller group again (Yea for grandkids??? but then grandkids aren't around as much).
With other groups, I suppose it depends on your schedules and how your family does things. If you have a gamer spouse they may actually be more into getting the game together than you are.
Probably once a week or once every other week I'd say for some groups.
However, I also have a very irregular group where we are now all old people. Their kids are mostly grown up and such so you would think that we'd be able to meet together more often, but we only get together around every 3-6 months.
So, I guess it depends on the people in your group and who you game with.
[*]Have a dedicated gaming space so we're not taking over the kitchen, for example.
Oh, yeah, that's something else. I DO have a dedicated gaming room. (actually I have two, and that doesn't count my Library. I have a game room for General Games such as RPGs and boardgames, that has a LARGE table in it. I have a more personal game room with my main boardgame collection and a smaller table for more close groups like familly, and I also have my library but no gaming normally goes on in the library - Library just holds a lot of the RPG books).
A dedicated gameroom DOES help.