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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5983994" data-attributes="member: 92305">And...you may be OK with people not showing up. I've never been that way, even back in high school when me and my friends had a lot more time on our hands. Yes, we played 12 times last year--and that was with a 7 month hiatus (the average is once a month, but, as you can see, we played 12 times in 5 months). To be honest, regardless of players showing up or not showing up, that schedule is about all I can handle as a DM. We look at it like a TV show. You watch a season, then it goes on hiatus for a bit before the next season comes on. You schedule is quite agressive, and that's great you can run and enjoy your game at that pace. I've got a lot of other interests (for example, I play a lot of poker--sometimes 3 or 5 times a week) that I don't want to lose (and, yes, I will skip a poker game when I've got game stuff I need to get prepared). I don't have any kids, but as you saw, most of my players do. Their kids are fairly young, too. So, in the summer, there's baseball and soccer and gymnastics. This is another reason why we've taken the last few months off--it works for those parents. We'll still average about 12 games this year once the game picks up again.   I'm not saying that everybody had to run their game my way. If you're OK with players skipping out on your game, then that's great. My comments are directed towards the OP who seems frustrated that his players do skip. As a DM who very, very rarely has to move his game and always has all of the players show, I have been suggesting to him my solution. It's up to him to follow that advice. There's certainly no law that says he has to.     EDIT [MENTION=232]Crothian[/MENTION]  Back in the day, when I could spend more time on my favorite hobby, I average one game every two weeks.  This twice a month schedule worked well, giving me time in between sessions and keeping the game going hot and hard.  Running a game, every week, for 8 years is something I know I just couldn't do.  Maybe you've got rotating DMs? Anyway, even when I was running the twice a month game, I used the rule--and everybody always showed up.</blockquote>

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