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<blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 3225030" data-attributes="member: 44949">CommutingGenerally, I can get anywhere in town in 20 minutes or less. (Assuming it's not 5:00 traffic.) So, as far as being a player, I figure that's a reasonable commute. While I know people who commute an hour or more (to a different city) for their games, I've never had a game as a player that I thought was worth that much time in the car.As a DM, however, it's a completely different thing. My commute should then be zero. I always run at my place because I hate transporting all of my stuff. I'm a very off the cuff DM, and I like having all of the possible tools (maps, handouts, books, miniatures, map tiles, et cetera) at my fingertips. Plus, I don't have a laptop, so I lose all my computer resources when I travel.I've commute about 10 minutes with a rolling toolbox full of books and miniatures when I was running RPGA games at the FLGS. That worked becuase I had a preset module so I knew exactly what to bring. Plus, helping to bring new people into the hobby was worth the hassle of hauling the books up and down the stairs. However, I finally burned out on my local RPGA group, so I don't do that anymore.There is a game I am in a player in where one of the other players commutes from Phoenix to Albuquerque. However, that's really more of a work thing. He's here part of the week and in Phoenix part of the week. It's just that he happens to come back here in time for the game. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SiderisAnon, post: 3225030, member: 44949"] [b]Commuting[/b] Generally, I can get anywhere in town in 20 minutes or less. (Assuming it's not 5:00 traffic.) So, as far as being a player, I figure that's a reasonable commute. While I know people who commute an hour or more (to a different city) for their games, I've never had a game as a player that I thought was worth that much time in the car. As a DM, however, it's a completely different thing. My commute should then be zero. I always run at my place because I hate transporting all of my stuff. I'm a very off the cuff DM, and I like having all of the possible tools (maps, handouts, books, miniatures, map tiles, et cetera) at my fingertips. Plus, I don't have a laptop, so I lose all my computer resources when I travel. I've commute about 10 minutes with a rolling toolbox full of books and miniatures when I was running RPGA games at the FLGS. That worked becuase I had a preset module so I knew exactly what to bring. Plus, helping to bring new people into the hobby was worth the hassle of hauling the books up and down the stairs. However, I finally burned out on my local RPGA group, so I don't do that anymore. There is a game I am in a player in where one of the other players commutes from Phoenix to Albuquerque. However, that's really more of a work thing. He's here part of the week and in Phoenix part of the week. It's just that he happens to come back here in time for the game. :) [/QUOTE]

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