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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RyvenCedrylle" data-source="post: 4954052" data-attributes="member: 66726">I've been thinking a lot about this myself Tequila, so let me throw in my bit.  I haven't had a long-running group in a couple years - not since the end of college really.  I tend to drift in and out of campaign groups, a few weeks here, a few weeks there, but never sticking around.  A lot of it is me - my marriage is far and away the main priority in my life.  I've dropped more than a few groups when 'date night' got moved to what was previously gaming night due to my wife being in school or whatever.  We're pretty spontaneous, so unless a campaign is running on a night when I know she's not going to be home regularly, I could drop at any time.  I also used to do a podcast and have something of a side business, though that's been slow recently.  On the other hand, I find that I don't enjoy 'standard' gaming groups much anymore.  My last group had rotating GMs/DMs so that you would run a game for a couple hours each week and then get to play for the rest of the session.  When we got together to play, we were there to play - no talking about movies or what we did that week or anything else.  It wasn't some kind of hard and fast rule, we were just very focused.  Most face-to-face groups aren't like this, even RPGA events.  About 8 months ago, I ran across MapTools which I believe has been mentioned several times.  Let me just say that I LOVE MapTools LFR.  I've got a game tonight in about an hour or so in fact.  Why do I think so much of it?  First, it's flexible.  VERY flexible.  If I have a week where I know I have several open nights, I could easily get in three or four games very quickly.  On the other hand, if I'm busy for two weeks with other priorities, my absence doesn't affect anything.  The community is very strong and we've developed a solid comraderie.  Finally, like my old group back in the day, it's focused.  Game start time is game start time and we go - maximum gaming for your time investment.Right now we're doing only LFR, though there's been talk recently of doing a "home" campaign in a shared world via Wizards' website groups and wikis.  I would be happy to help you learn MapTools if that's a barrier to entry and strongly encourage you to check out what's going on.<a href="http://forums.rptools.net" target="_blank">RPTools.net Forums • Index page</a></blockquote>

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