Dry spell?

[DungeonmasterCal]

I've been in a dry spell for over a year, now. My group has a lot of trouble getting together now because of real life, so we almost never get to play regularly. Add to that my being in a car accident in January that laid me up for over 2 months, and I've done almost nothing. My own burnout kept me from using that time to set up a campaign or adventures (I also figured there was no point in creating games and settings that would never be played), so I read the "get well" gifts people sent me (all the Complete Series, Complete Books of Eldritch Might, among other things) and just enjoyed the crunchy goodness therein.

I got to play this past Saturday for the first time since the accident, and I have to admit I wasn't very comfortable. I've known these guys for nearly 20 years in some cases, and there's something going on with one of them where I am concerned, yet he won't talk to me about it. He even tried to act like he was surprised I'd been in an accident when he came to pick me up for the game. I know for a fact he knew of it the first day it happened, yet he tried to act like he never knew about it, on top of the way he's been lately. I think I've decided I'm not going to play anymore, until I'm able to drive my own car again. I don't want to ride with him anymore. So my dry spell will continue.

Life's too short to be around crappy people.

 

[der_kluge]

My wife has been frustrated by my gaming recently, but mostly due to there being two game days in the same month, and the fact that she's pregnant in the first tri-mester doesn't help much.

That said, my current group annoys me. Well, mostly the DM. He sent me an email stating that "they" decided that they wanted to move to a weeknight game. Ugh. I hate gaming on weeknights. So he said he wanted to try for Tuesdays, but that's out for me, since I have band practice on Tuesdays. So, they may try for Mondays, since most of the other nights weren't good either.

I'm toying with just leaving the group, and not gaming at all. The NC game day, the MD/VA/DC game day, and Gen Con can probably keep me happy.

I'm also playing in a pbp game on here, and while I am enjoying it, it is sparse, and I do enjoy the social interaction.

Of course, the social interaction part can also be obnoxious sometimes.

 

[Estlor]

I've been in a dry spell for about, oh, two years now. Real life killed the gaming group I had been playing with since '95. I don't really know anyone else around here that plays D20 and still haven't gotten out from under that real life thing.

In the meantime, I've been trying (somewhat successfully) to keep my book collection up to date should I ever stumble across another group and have been channeling my idle DM energy into writing fiction. Now if I could just find a way to make money off of that...

 

[el-remmen]

My "Out of the Frying Pan" group has been on hiatus for about a month and we hope to start up again by mid-May - as we wait for one of our members to recover from surgery.

Until then, I have my story hour to try and catch up on (yeah, right) and I have a lot of prep to do before our final showdown to end the campaign (some time this summer).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Been doing that off and on for a while, I 'guest DM' for a friend running two or three games every now and then to give him a break. Players don't seem to mind and I have been asked if I would run a game every week but I really don't want to do that anymore (too little free time).

 

[A'koss]

Yeah, you can add me to the list of people where real life has put the screws to our game. It's been well over a year now since our group effectively imploded. 2 moved away, 1 got married, then moved, 1 works odd hours (but then again, my days off are a little strange too...). Add to the fact that the company I work for goes through stretches of just crazy amounts of work. Work 2 weeks in a row, get a day off, work 2 more weeks in a row, get a day off... that kind of thing.

We do end up meeting once every couple of months on average but not enough to run anything resembling a cohesive campaign. I'd really like to try some Iron Lore in the fall, but that'll mean trying to find a new group and somehow finding the time to play.

 

[Umbran]

Yes. Scheduling is a big issue. I would love to do some sort of gaming every week, but getting a group of adults with diverse interests and occupations together more frequently than once every three or four weeks seems near impossible these days.

In dry spells, I come around here more, and mine the site for campaign ideas. Or, I indulge in reading gaming materials. Going over the new Werewolf rules now...

 

[Henry]

Our group has "dry spells" from time to time - mostly it's seasonal, and happens because of the changing schedules that keeps players from being able to play on weekends (which is the only time many of us can game). When this happens, We usually retool for a game or activity that only requires two or three people, and go onward.

Right now, we're in a spell where we've lost three players due to summer itinerary changes, and we're left with four to five players including DM (mostly four), so one of the group DMs is planning another RPG, and we're putting the two we're playing now on temporary hold. (Actually, if I can convince the DM, we might keep playing our low-magic D&D game, because the people left now are the EXACT same people who started the campaign in the first place.)

 

[diaglo]

patience is a virtue seldom practiced.

i waited years to get another OD&D game going.

i posted on bulletin boards. at game stores. in the want ads.

i played computer games

i tried other systems and other games. like d02.

and i waited.


it paid off.

just have patience. but at the same time don't be a wall flower.

 

[eris404]

Anyone here going through a dry spell where you're not gaming much if at all? What kinds of RPG activities do you do during such a time to keep involved in the hobby? What impediments are keeping you from being in a game right now?

Kind of. We're having a difficult time getting together due to our schedules, but for the most part we get together pretty regularly - normally once a week, but at least two to three times a month.

When we miss games, I tend to read my gaming materials; I buy so many PDFs that I don't often get to read them right away. I'm still working on a new campaign setting and there is a campaign using an old setting I'm hoping to run soon, so I've been writing adventures and making NPCs for that (which is a sort of sub-hobby for me, actually).