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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runesong42" data-source="post: 2330506" data-attributes="member: 10578">At least most of you posters HAVE a group.My 'group' consists of me and one of my oldest friends.  We grew up together in the same hometown and wound up living in the same city.  We've played D&D together with our other old friends way back in the day, but now it's just the two of us.   As such, we know each other's playing style and when we work together on a project it usually produces stellar results (IMHO, of course).  However, nowadays it's really difficult to get together.  He works 4 days on, 3 days off for the military during the day (8 am -4 pm).  I work overnights 5 days a week, days off random but usually together (midnight - 8 am).  And, he usually doesn't feel it's worth the effort unless we have a full day's worth of playing that's not under any kind of pressure for time.We lost touch for about a year, and during that time, I met up with a small gaming group of 3 that got together once a week or once every two weeks.  We played in the time we had, usually 5-11 as three of us were all night auditors and we could work around the other guy's schedule.  I learned the value of short, efficient gaming sessions; if an adventure had to be carried over two or three sessions, that was fine -- I learned how to properly pace as well.  Now, all I have to do is teach my ol' gaming partner the ways of the short game... <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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