Treebore
First Post
As I have mentioned several times in other threads over months past and present, I have been doing a lot of gaming. Pretty much 3 or more hours every day of the week. 6 to 10 hours on Saturdays and Mondays.
To summarize, on Tuesday through Friday, and on Sundays, I have been in on line games using Maptools and SKYPE, these games typically go 3 to 4 hours, usually right at 3 hours each.
Saturday and Monday are my "face to face" games, and those usually go for 8 to 10 hours each.
I've been playing or running RPG's like Star Wars Saga, Legend of the 5 Rings 4E, Aces and Eights, Eclipse Phase, and due to the nature of the Thursday group, a wide variety of other RPG's, and of course, Castles and Crusades.
A few weeks ago I realized I had a heck of a lot of damage done to both the roof of my house and my big frikkin garage, and due to a number of limiting factors, I have had to do most of the work during the time frames in which I played these games. So I reluctantly dropped out, hopefully only for a few weeks, all but my Tuesday game (I've been running that for 3 years, I couldn't just drop it, even though I still had to cancel several sessions), my Sunday games, and I moved my Saturday game back to after 8 PM, and the Monday game was done later at night anyways, so didn't need to change anything there.
There is a part of me that misses these games and wants to get back to them, but I have also been realizing something else. I have been enjoying the free time to do other things, especially lately when thunder storms have kept us off of the roofs. Mainly it has just been my kids and I sitting down and watching Anime movies together, such as using Netflix to rewatch Ruroni Kenshin or the Evangelion series, or for them to get me interested in that Kenichi, Worlds Greatest Disciple, series. Things like that, or sometimes playing other board games or video console games together.
Now part of the reason I got involved in these RPG games in the first place is my kids had largely started ignoring me and spending time "doing their own thing". Plus I really don't like watching TV all that much, and thanks to having a DVR, I can watch what little I do like whenever I wish. So come evening time I had been finding myself not having anything I really wanted to do, so just sat watching stuff I didn't like with my wife, etc... and most of the shows I do like didn't usually start until 9 PM or later anyways. So I got involved in these games, mostly on line, because they ran from 6 PM to 9 PM, my time. Plus the face to face Saturday and Monday games includes 2 of my 3 kids anyways, and one of the Sunday games also includes 1 of my kids, so all was great!
But I think my being ivolved in "my own thing" may have also had an effect on my kids. Now, so far, they have been very willing to spend time with "dear old Dad" doing these other things I have mentioned.
So now I am finding myself getting more and more reluctant to get back into these other games, since we are getting (HOPEFULLY!!) close to finishing up repairing all the roof damage we have been working on.
So maybe I am doing too much gaming. So I am thinking I won't rejoin those games as soon as possible. I think I will wait and see just how long this time my kids like spending this time with me goes on. Maybe I will get lucky and they will do it until they finally move out and get on with their own lives. Even if it doesn't last that long, they are 15 to 19, so I don't have much time left no matter what. They will finish college, they will get jobs, they will start living their own lives, they will be leaving. So I better seize the opportunity while it is present.
Besides, even as it is, I am still doing a lot of gaming compared to a lot of people, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Like I said, my kids are involved in more than half of those too! So I think I am going to stay out of those other games for now, these opportunities with my kids are far more important.
To summarize, on Tuesday through Friday, and on Sundays, I have been in on line games using Maptools and SKYPE, these games typically go 3 to 4 hours, usually right at 3 hours each.
Saturday and Monday are my "face to face" games, and those usually go for 8 to 10 hours each.
I've been playing or running RPG's like Star Wars Saga, Legend of the 5 Rings 4E, Aces and Eights, Eclipse Phase, and due to the nature of the Thursday group, a wide variety of other RPG's, and of course, Castles and Crusades.
A few weeks ago I realized I had a heck of a lot of damage done to both the roof of my house and my big frikkin garage, and due to a number of limiting factors, I have had to do most of the work during the time frames in which I played these games. So I reluctantly dropped out, hopefully only for a few weeks, all but my Tuesday game (I've been running that for 3 years, I couldn't just drop it, even though I still had to cancel several sessions), my Sunday games, and I moved my Saturday game back to after 8 PM, and the Monday game was done later at night anyways, so didn't need to change anything there.
There is a part of me that misses these games and wants to get back to them, but I have also been realizing something else. I have been enjoying the free time to do other things, especially lately when thunder storms have kept us off of the roofs. Mainly it has just been my kids and I sitting down and watching Anime movies together, such as using Netflix to rewatch Ruroni Kenshin or the Evangelion series, or for them to get me interested in that Kenichi, Worlds Greatest Disciple, series. Things like that, or sometimes playing other board games or video console games together.
Now part of the reason I got involved in these RPG games in the first place is my kids had largely started ignoring me and spending time "doing their own thing". Plus I really don't like watching TV all that much, and thanks to having a DVR, I can watch what little I do like whenever I wish. So come evening time I had been finding myself not having anything I really wanted to do, so just sat watching stuff I didn't like with my wife, etc... and most of the shows I do like didn't usually start until 9 PM or later anyways. So I got involved in these games, mostly on line, because they ran from 6 PM to 9 PM, my time. Plus the face to face Saturday and Monday games includes 2 of my 3 kids anyways, and one of the Sunday games also includes 1 of my kids, so all was great!
But I think my being ivolved in "my own thing" may have also had an effect on my kids. Now, so far, they have been very willing to spend time with "dear old Dad" doing these other things I have mentioned.
So now I am finding myself getting more and more reluctant to get back into these other games, since we are getting (HOPEFULLY!!) close to finishing up repairing all the roof damage we have been working on.
So maybe I am doing too much gaming. So I am thinking I won't rejoin those games as soon as possible. I think I will wait and see just how long this time my kids like spending this time with me goes on. Maybe I will get lucky and they will do it until they finally move out and get on with their own lives. Even if it doesn't last that long, they are 15 to 19, so I don't have much time left no matter what. They will finish college, they will get jobs, they will start living their own lives, they will be leaving. So I better seize the opportunity while it is present.
Besides, even as it is, I am still doing a lot of gaming compared to a lot of people, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Like I said, my kids are involved in more than half of those too! So I think I am going to stay out of those other games for now, these opportunities with my kids are far more important.
