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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1762068" data-attributes="member: 7533">Yeah, that's a bit rough.I've got a rotating shift, but at least it's a regular rotation.  I pretty know what shift I'll be working every day for the next couple years.All I can say is good luck if you're looking for a new group...  And make certain anyone who plays with you knows you work a funky shift right up front, they'll usually be a little more lenient that way.Anyway, back to the subject...  I'm not now, but in college I was a non-gaming gamer for a long time.  It was just a bad time.  I was burnt out on 2nd edition, and my gaming style differed so vastly from all the other RPGers I knew in college...  It was period in the 90's when Magic cards were exceedingly popular (I'd burnt out on them too), and everyone was just getting into the MMORPG craze with Ultima Online.  All the other D&D players I knew had gotten into a resultant K3wl L00t! and M4d Pow3rz! craze, that just wasn't my kettle of fish.  To put it another way, they were all playing the sort of Chaotic-Neutral game that I'd played in junior high school (not to cast any general aspersions on junior high school students, but you get the idea...) that I'd long since grown out of.I played the occasional game, but they never lasted more than an adventure or too, due to the adversarial nature of the PCs involved.  Oh well.So I didn't play much at all, until after I'd graduated.  3rd Ed. came out, and via EN World I found a gaming group that met every week a block away from my house.  I've been playing with the same group (more or less) for the past four years now.</blockquote>

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