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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1629115" data-attributes="member: 3400">OK, I can kind of see a few things going on here. Gaming is pretty much your main social function and you're the martyr who organizes it all. That can be a pain. You could really stand to get up and do something else. If you want to do something with your gamer buddies, instead of playing one week, suggest going out to a bar to play darts. A few rounds of cricket over a pitcher of beer.Or maybe suggest a very different sort of game like Formula De, Settlers of Catan, or Munchkin. Something you can banter over without getting too wrapped up in rules. A good social event.Maybe host a few weeks of movies for a break. Movies you can have a good time watching whether bad (in a good way) or really good movies. Pick ones that most of the group hasn't seen and probably wouldn't see without prompting.Go out to a restaurant and don't worry about getting back to gaming. We did that one night instead of playing the game as usual. Went out for ribs at Famous Dave's and chewed the fat (literally and metaphorically).And I would also suggest delegating responsibility for keeping the schedule, mustering the players, and all that, to someone other than yourself or your spouse. I'm probably pretty lucky in this regard because we just like to chat and bs with each other. And my wife and I are also involved in a large friendship group where we all have kids around the same age and most people are hobbiest in overlapping areas (stamping/scrapbooking, gaming, camping, computer geeking, swinging, ah-HA, just trying to see if you're all paying attention, etc). So we have a variety of excuses for getting together with the same people.</blockquote>

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