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

[RFisher]

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

Of course!

How do you deal with the situation?

Remembering the times in my life when I haven’t been able to play helps me try to make the most of the small amount of time that I do get to devote to gaming.

Hoping that one day when my kids are older I’ll be able to spend more time with them and spend more time gaming.

As for losing focus on the current campaign, that has nothing to do with how much time I have for...um...er...oh...sorry, I was just thinking about an idea for a wild west campaign...what was I talking about again?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

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

Unfortunately for me, my wife isn't interested in gaming in the slightest. That's not a big issue though, we have plenty of other things that we have fun doing together. Gaming is sort of like my time to have fun "going out with the boys" so to speak. Except that we don't go out at all, we play in the family room at my house! But I digress.

For those of you that say "Get her to give it a go. She might like it." I say fat chance!

She would be the first person to admit that she has the attention span of a goldfish. Trying to get her to sit down and doing anything for 4 hours would be hard enough. She also likes her board and card games and thing like that to be simple. D&D is not what I would call a simple game!

Sure it would be great if she liked to game. We could spend more time together and game more often. Unfortunately that's not the situation so I'll just go with what I've got!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Of course!



Remembering the times in my life when I haven’t been able to play helps me try to make the most of the small amount of time that I do get to devote to gaming.

Hoping that one day when my kids are older I’ll be able to spend more time with them and spend more time gaming.

As for losing focus on the current campaign, that has nothing to do with how much time I have for...um...er...oh...sorry, I was just thinking about an idea for a wild west campaign...what was I talking about again?

My dream (and it may stay in the genre that I game in most frequently, fantasty) is to have all my (at this point non-existent) kids grow up to be gamers. Then I'll have a readily made gaming group and I'll get to spend more time with my kids.

Who knows, if me and all the kids are playing we might even be able to convice my wife to give it a go! (Still very unlikely)

I'm not going to force gaming onto them but hopefully they are interested in it. We can only dream.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I would rather have more quality gaming than quantity gaming. Right now, I have neither. I make do with terrible scheduling amongst friends and message board games to fill in many of the gaps.

The "grass is greener" phenomenon is closer to "gamer fashion" I think. These days there's something new around every corner. One way that I get this out of my system is to try to get to a gaming convention or ENWorld Gameday every quarter and try out something new. Invariably what happens is that I get to one every six months and folks want me to run what I'm known for, but here and there I sneak something new in.

 

[WayneLigon]

Right now, I have one regular weekly game, and a pick-up game on Sunday. I'd like another really good group to play with; I'd drop the Sunday game for that, easily. I might could deal with a third, if it was really exceptional or they were playing something I'm dying to play.

 

[erc1971]

More gaming? Always.

Back in the military, it was a gamer's paradise. We had a network of about 50 gamers, and I played 7 nights a week for almost a year straight. Ohh, I loved it. And, my job consisted of sitting in a room by myself for 8 hours straight, so that was about 40 hours a week I had available to design adventures, so I ran 1 night a week, played 6 others. All types of different games, genres, play styles, etc.

I loved it, never approached burnout, and wish I could do it again.

Now, I play once a week - we have 8-12 hour sessions on Saturdays. And, it is nowhere near enough. All week while at work, I am looking forward to Saturdays

Gaming has "it", and I enjoy myself immensely when at the table.

 

[Arnwyn]

The trouble is that unless I win the lottery and can retire

That's what I regret.

I imagine that a lot of people are in a similar position to myself. How do you deal with the situation?

There's no "situation" to deal with. It just sounds like normal life, to me. (For example, I'd like to golf a lot more, too. And watch more movies. And play my massive backlog of video games. And read more books. And...)

 

[Barak]

I game once a week, with an extra time every month and a half or so, on average.

Would I like to game more? Theoratically, yes. Really, no. First off, I'm the DM-by-default. I'd much rather be playing, but all my players are worse DMs or like it even less. And I don't want to be DMing more. But even without that.. While I do "think" I'd like to game more, in reality, having done so before (and without the DMing issue).. It becomes a bit of a drag. And that sucks.

About PBPs.. Yes, the drop-rate is rather high. In my experience, you need to "join" 5-6 games to have one that lasts more than two weeks. That said, that one game can be worth all the hassle.

 

[TheNovaLord]

Get to play once per week with one group and occassionally (maybe 2 or 3 per month) with second group. I am DM and both groups are in the same campaign (diff adventures). Play for 3 to 4 hours at a time. I think id like those to be 5 hour sessions, so less time seems wasted on chat and snax. I see most of them at other times in the week for non gaming so can save chat for then!
Would i play more. At the moment yes as I am 6 week school break (where i work) so have the time.

I find when i do lots of gaming related stuff I dont play video games (which is good cos im sure its not good for your eyes) plus RPGing is more social.

i do remember fondly 18 years ago at Uni doing monster all weekender sessions, dont know if i have the stamina for that now

JohnD

 

[Insight]

I've got the basic problem that my preferred group simply cannot meet as often as I'd like. I'd love to game once a week, but these days, I'm lucky ifr I get once a fortnight.

I am in nearly the same boat. My work schedule was a problem for the past five months, but now that my work schedule has cleared up, it appears that getting everyone together more than one week in a row is a problem.