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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulGreystoke" data-source="post: 1434162" data-attributes="member: 10810">Put me down as another one who will only game with friends.  My present group of players are all people with whom I spend time doing other things.  3  are in a fantasy football league with me, so we are friendly competitors during football season & keep in touch about football matters during the offseason too.  Discussing the ramifications of Terrell Owens signing with the Philadelphia Eagles is as likely a topic of conversation as anything about gaming.  2 of my players like to get together to shoot pool.  Tonight we will be going bowling along with a bunch of our other friends.  1 of my players is an old drinking buddy of mine from the Army where we were Russian linguists together.  We still get together occasionally to hoist a few & govorit' po-russkiy, although not as often as we used to since his Irish band has become such a success.  So none of my players is simply a gaming buddy, although some of them only see one another when we game, so they may think of each other that way.It was different when I was younger.  Being more-or-less a "gaming junky" I was willing to play with anyone if it meant a fix. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  But bad game experience after bad game experience taught me that playing with people that you don't really like or have anything in common with is unrewarding.  It is disturbing to realize that the only thing holding you together is your mutual addiction to the game.  To get around this I recall trying to do things outside gaming with my gaming buddies with ofttimes painful and/or comic results.  Splitting a tab with these guys (many of whom had apparently never heard of tax and tip) was a nightmare.  :\   So nowadays, if I can't imagine spending time with someone outside of the game, it would never occur to me to invite that person into the game.  Those of my friends who are interested in playing D&D play in the game & those that aren't interested don't play.  This seems to make everyone happy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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