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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meadred" data-source="post: 2191048" data-attributes="member: 23833">Definitely! I've been gaming with the same group for more than 10 years (actually close to 13 years now, we meet in college), and like any long-time relationship there has been highs and lows. The first low came about 6 years back when everyone graduated and started working. Some of the guys got so caught up in work that our regular gaming sessions almost died out. Then we had a revival a couple of years later, and we started playing more often. Right now we're having a bit of a low again; one guy got promoted to a manager position at work and has to work a lot so he can't participate as often as before, a couple of other guys (they're all consultants) works for an UK-based client, so they miss quite a few sessions, and the only girl in our group teaches at a dance studio on her spare time, so she has taken a time-out. Unfortunately the difficulties in getting a gaming session together has gotten to me, and I'm beginning to loose interest. I'm thinking about ending the campaign I'm responsible for (two of us take turns being the DM), and try to get my enthusiasm and creativity back. I will probably change to another rules set - for me, d20-based games take too much time to prepare, and the others' knowledge of the extensive d20 rules set hampers our gaming in a way (None of us know it well enough to let the game session flow, but some know it well enough to question any attempts to "hand-wave" things and claim to have read a rule regarding it 'somewhere'; "Oh, I know it's here somewhere, just wait a moment...").Anyway, eventually this will pass, and we'll be gaming like before, having a good time together again, talking about our college days and so on. That's the good part about playing with your friends! BTW, we've only had one break-up (only one girl in the group) and that didn't hurt the group as the break-up happened when the guy moved to the US to get a MBA.Phew, guess I had a lot on my chest today.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Cheers,Meadred</blockquote>

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