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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kheti sa-Menik" data-source="post: 2789926" data-attributes="member: 22721">After reading this thread, I am going to give everyone in my group a hug.  Though, they may slug me for it....I, it seems, have been extremely fortunate in my gaming experiences.  In high school, I gamed with very few people, 1 or 2, and they were already friends so everything was fine.Then, I took a break for five years in college.When I started gaming again in 2000, the group that I reestablished my "table cred" with were long time gamers, even longer time friends, and I was concerned I would be so out of place.  Five years later, I'm still gaming with them.  Each one has their quirks (who doesn't?) that annoy other members from time to time, myself included, but it's a stable and friendly group who are as happy to get together for bowling, food, target shooting, or movies as they are at the table.I'm still somewhat the newbie....they all have jokes and experiences from adventuring in 1st Edition D&D and other long ago campaigns that I don't have a frame of reference to, so I still occasionally feel out of step.  But it's nothing they do or don't do; in fact they make me feel included by telling the stories and explaining old jokes and we all laugh.One of the members of this group I consider to be one of my two closest friends.Unfortuneately, my schedule doesn't currently allow me to meet with these fine folks to game but soon, very soon.The other group I actually game with now is a restructured group from another campaign.  The former DM moved away, fracturing the group.  When he first put it together, it was myself and a close friend, and the rest strangers.  But we gelled and today, one of those "strangers" is a close friend and we have even found someone to fill the fourth chair who is a good guy.The only iffy experiences I've had is at Cons.  Playing in one shots at Cons has introduced me to some really unpleasant gamers.  I don't know if they are like that in their normal lives, but I wouldn't welcome them to the table.  But then again, I met the DM that started the above gaming group at a Con and we're good friends, though he now lives in a different city.Anyway, based on what I've read here (cocaine and alcohol issues, immaturity, infighting, etc)  I feel so lucky that my groups are as stable as they are.Edit:  I don't post that often so I never noticed that my avatar makes it seem as if I'm female.I guess I should make it Crichton, instead of Aeryn.I have no idea why I added this note.Caafeeine</blockquote>

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