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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5843249" data-attributes="member: 67606">My players are good people.  Honestly.About 6 years ago, life dictated that my wife and I move back to her hometown.  Our son had just died, and my wife *needed* to be near to her mother and sister.  As we sat down to our next session after my wife and I had decided on the move, I sadly explained the situation to the group (they were all *really* great during our son's ordeal, but none of them were aware we considering moving).  We had played monthly, rotating homes, for just a little over a 2 years at this point, and had all gotten to know and like each other quite a bit over that time.  Even so, I was sure it meant the end of our regular game.Without skipping a beat, they all just kind of looked at each other and almost as a group said, "Okay.  We'll drive out to your place to game every other month.  On the other months, you drive here.  Fair?"  Yeah guys, definitely fair. <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=":)" />  I still get kinda misty just thinking about it.  It was such a simple gesture, but it meant a lot at the time for me, and I'm so happy to still get to game with those guys.Then, a few months ago, I decided I was kinda burnt out GMing.  I'm generally in the "write your own adventure" camp, but decided that I just didn't have the energy to do that, at least for the time being.  I announced I'd still run the game, but I was going to start running pre-written modules.  When I decided which modules I was going to run, one of my players bought me a Paizo.com gift certificate, covering the price of all 3 modules.  He told me he just wanted to thank me for running my game for the last 7 years, that was all.  He knew I worked hard to provide him and the rest of our group with a regular game, and he wanted to let me know it was appreciated. <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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