Do you regret the fact that you don't get to game as much as you would like?

[Piratecat]

I game once a week on average, and both campaigns are amongst the best I've run or played in, so that's a happy thing. I get any additional gaming urges out through one-shot games at game days - EN World get-togethers, local gaming cons where I can run Paranoia XP or Feng Shui (or Call of Cthulhu or Mutants & Masterminds or...), or one-shots for a mixture of friends and regular players.

Between the two, I'm pretty happy. There are other benefits of running one-shots, as well. For instance, Feng Shui is an ideal first game to introduce non-gamers to the hobby.

 

[Heathen72]

Do you regret the fact that you don't get to ............... as much as you would like?

Yes, by definition!


As for gaming, no, not really. I am the GM in my group so while it would be nice to game more often, it takes a lot of work, and it would suck a lot of the time from the other things in my life.
We go through bursts where we won't play for a month, and then we will play each week or even more often for a couple of months

 

[BlueBlackRed]

I would love to game more, but if that meant giving up my current life then I will settle for my once per week game with a once per week visit to my FLGS.

I used to play M:tG 7 days a week. from after work until 11pm or later, and spent huge amounts of money on it.
But I was also broke, rationed ramen noodles for food, hated my sweat-shop job (wanted my boss dead - seriously), always seemed to be running on my spare "donut" tire, never had enough sleep, and always had crappy clothes.

Which life would you choose?

 

[Henry]

I regret it with the same level of regret that I HAVEN'T struck it rich. In other words, it'd be nice, but I get my fill at once per week.

The way we deal with switching up games is this: We plan around the gamers' expectations for their free time. Just this past week we had one of our "quarterly planning sessions" for five minutes. One player's swamped by work and doesn't want to get in too deep, more than one game per two or three weeks; one player is thinking of taking a short break in a couple of weeks, and the other five are pretty much open to anything from D&D to spycraft to Planescape to M&M.

Me, I'd rather get in a variety of games, since we're already alternating between two high-level D&D campaigns and a M&M game, I'd rather do something besides D&D or M&M. I mentioned Spycraft, I mentioned M&M, but expressed my hesitations about running another game of it, and I didn't mention but have been considering a Pirates game using Grim Tales or even Skull & Bones (I've looked at it from a friend, but haven't bought one yet). In any event, I don't want to run something we're already running (too much of a good thing) but to find something we all agree on can be tricky at times; we can ALL agree on D&D, it seems.

 

[MonsterMash]

Yes, but hopefully it'll go up soon with another weekday night and some PbP

 

[Pinotage]

Why not start up the games in PbP? I've found that's a great way to play - currently I'm playing in Shackled City, Age of Worms, Red Hand of Doom, DCC #13 Crypt of the Devil Lich, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and soon to be Savage Tide.

Takes up a little time each day, and you get to play everything you want to!

Pinotage

 

[KenSeg]

I game once a week as well on Saturdays from about 4pm to 9:30pm or so, about as long as us old farts can take these days. I remember playing until 2am back in the day, but those days are 20 years ago now!

Is your wife at all interested in gaming? I would not be able to play as much as I do unless I had gotten her interested in it back when we were dating in high school. It is more of a social time for her but she has fun playing her fun loving hobbit rogues.

As for variety of gaming, that is where my gaming really sucks. I would love to try some other games, but the other gamers just want to play D&D with little interest in anything else. We have had the occasional Star Wars campaign a few years ago and I recently gave our regular DM a break by running a C&C campaign for four months. I would love to play a good superhero game and maybe a gamma world or shadow run campaign. <Sigh> Maybe in the next life.

Good gaming Olaf!

-KenSeg
gaming since 1978

 

[Kid Socrates]

I run a Wednesday game and a Sunday game, and I'm already running along the border of burnout. If I played in another game per week, or ran another game per week (perish the thought), I'd definitely burn out on gaming and need to break from it for a while. Even now, running and planning two games per week doesn't leave me a lot of time to do the other slacking off I want to do; I purchased a PC game a few weeks ago that I just got around to installing yesterday, but probably won't start playing for another week or two until I can clear my schedule a bit.

So I've got about all the gaming I can handle.

 

[shaylon]

Eh, I get my fill I guess. I would like to game more but much like Olaf said there is too much to be done as an adult. No time to game more than the once a week, at least not on a regular basis.

I would also love to play some games I don't normally get to play, but with Origins and GenCon so close to home, I do it there. Sure it isn't weekly but it is fun and interesting nonetheless.

Also, my group and I occasionally to a Saturday marathon (2-3 times a year) which makes for a good time.

-Shay

 

[sckeener]

Do you regret the fact that you don't get to ............... as much as you would like?
Yes, by definition!

Exactly. Time is finite and unless you limit what you want to achieve, there will not be enough time.

However there is another problem. The expectation that you can do more will cause disappointment. There is a reason that Buddhists monks are the happiest people and people that time manage have the most heart attacks.

My suggestion is to focus on the fun and not the setting. Settings come and go. The time you spend with friends and family is the important part. Focus on the big stuff and the small stuff will fall into place.