Let's Talk About Our Year In TTRPGs

[GrimCo]

Might be time to consider using a VTT. It's not the same as in person, but since you already have those relationships it can be pretty good substitute. It doesn't have to cost you any money either. 2of3 top VTTs are now free (FG and Roll20). plus their are other simpler ones if you don't want the complexity of a fully featured one. I even played in part of one campaign years ago using Discord and web camera. If their is a will, there is a way

Thank you We tried online gaming on few occasions, since we play ToTM IRL, we used Google Meet, we tried Roll20 with discord. If we play during weekdays, we can't start before 21-21:30, and by 23 we are all zoning out. Sunday mornings, when we usually play IRL, well, kids are running around ( we all have kindergarden/elementary school age kids), so focusing on the game is hard. But biggest problem is, it's just not the same. Gaming isn't just gaming, it's quality guys only time with friends.

But yeah, will is there. It's time. Kids, aging parents, demanding jobs, other obligations that take priority, I'm thinking more of ditching campaigns and D&D and focus on one shots in rules light systems like Mork Borg, Knave, Cairn.

 

[delericho]

No gaming at all - no running games, no playing games, no prepping a campaign, no new products bought (but see below), no books read. I've posted maybe a dozen times here, but for the most part I'm out, for a while at least (no idea how long "a while" is).

While I didn't buy any new products, I have been quietly collecting a lot of the old-edition PDFs - mostly BECMI and 1st Ed adventures and the Ravenloft setting. (I already have all the Spelljammer, Dark Sun, and Eberron PDFs, those being my other favourite settings.) I'm going to continue with that, which will most likely take me a few years to get everything I want - maybe by then I'll be back to gaming more generally?