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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CuRoi" data-source="post: 5631027" data-attributes="member: 98032">Over the years I've gamed in tough situations. In some cases, it was worth it to "stick it out", in others it was a bad idea.  I've told the story before, but once I was running a game and the owner of the house we were at informed me we might have to quit early because his wife's dad was in the hospital literally on his death bed. I was concerned andtold him we coudl put the game off until later, he insisted it wasn't necessary. By the time the wife came in the room bawling, I asked her directly if there's was anythign we coudl do and offered to leave. She also said having people around was a good for her. It was just too hard for me to run a game thinkign of her father and with the pain of her sobbing on her husband's shoulder.  By the time the mother-in-law came over to spend the night straight from the hospital, I just apologized and packed up and left at that point. Several of the players also agreed it was a bit past time to pack it in and let the family deal with their grief in privacy. (The father in law recovered by the way, so it was ultimately a good thing - just way past my level of gaming awkwardness and I was relatively new to the group.) Prior to that a childhood friend of mine had been diagnosed with cancer shortly after I got back in touch with him. He lived out of state, but I started driving out to pick him up and bring him to our weekly DnD game. Those were some tough games to run, and I even got in an argument with him once during the game just out of sheer stress. Anyway, it was entirely worth it because he made some new friends and I got to spend a little more time with him. Good times, good memories. So, sometimes when things are tough in your life, you probably should set gaming aside. Other times, it's worth it to hang out with friends and put the pains of life aside for a bit.</blockquote>

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