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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 9453917" data-attributes="member: 8014">A few different suggestions for you, [USER=42040]@Retreater[/USER], coming from different directions.The main thing I would suggest is trying to split your time into combat stuff with the full group, and maybe 1-on-1 focussed role-playing just with the person who wants that style of game. That will hopefully mean you don’t have to exclude your wife from all your gaming and you can get some gaming in that better meets your wants.What do do with that combat focussed group? Another couple of suggestions here.First is the board game <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/170771/sword-and-sorcery" target="_blank">Sword & Sorcery</a>. It doesn’t get a lot of chatter but it is our favourite dungeon crawl board game. It’s a fully coop game and the monster AI is really good, with monsters acting differently and in theme with their attack set (e.g. monsters with a ranged attack will step back of the PCs get a bit too close). There are multiple sets with different campaigns and a single mission will occupy a typical evening of gaming. I would suggest initially playing this with your wife as hopefully she is easier to persuade than the full group, then if she enjoys it the two of you can persuade the rest of the group.My second suggestion would be <a href="https://rpggeek.com/rpg/445/the-fantasy-trip" target="_blank">The Fantasy Trip</a>, which is the predecessor to GURPS and focussed on fantasy. The game is really quite tactical based on hex maps with position and manoeuvre being important to combat success. One of the associated things with TFT is that it started as two mini games (Melee and Wizard) which were combat arena tactical board games. So maybe you could arrange some arena fight style engagements to play with the combat focussed group to scratch that itch in an away that is more easy to set up and run.If you can keep the bigger group happy with either of those low / no-prep options then that would free up head-space to do some 1-on-1 RP with your other player. Over time, maybe your wife would become interested in playing that too since her combat fix is being serviced by TFT / S&S.</blockquote>

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