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Message: <blockquote data-quote="farscapesg1" data-source="post: 2784306" data-attributes="member: 15234">I feel your pain.  I've been looking for a good gaming group for some time now.  I started with my current group when the DM had 4 or 5 other players (over a 2 years ago).  Since that time the original group has left due to "real life issues" and has had to be replaced with new players.  In March I will have to take a break myself (due to a new baby), and at this point I probably won't be going back  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />   I like the DM but the group has become unbearable.  Between constant arguments, childish/rude/abnoxious jokes, and lack of actual gaming in exchange for chit-chatting about rules/video games/movies/etc. it just doesn't provide what I am looking for anymore.  If you have friends that would be interested in gaming, great.  Me and my wife tend to be pretty "anti-social" for lack of better words.  We just don't make friends very fast.  When we moved to Texas, it took 2 years to make friends with a couple, the wife of which I work with.  We're now friends with them and their friends.  However, none of them are interested in the game (and in fact make jokes about the term "roleplaying" or for some reason comparing it to "playing with old naked fat men").  Other than that, my wife has a couple people she used to work with at her first job down here, which she gets together with for dinner once every couple months.  We don't have the strong desire to have lots of friends.  We enjoy each other's company to the point that we don't really need other people to invite over for dinner.  Of course, that seems odd in today's age, a couple that has been married almost 10 years that is still infatuated enough with each other to not need other social interraction  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So, if you don't have friends that would be interested in gaming, it may take some time to find a group.  And of course, even after you do find a group, things could turn it upside-down and you will again be searching  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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