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Message: <blockquote data-quote="schnee" data-source="post: 1569920" data-attributes="member: 16728">You have to be flexible and easygoing about schedule. My group (mostly mid-30's, one 28-something, one 40-something) has been playing since 3.0 came out. We've had to take months off at a time due to things like new children and travel, but we always find a way to get back together eventually.We try to do 'every other Friday', and each of us with families made whatever bargains/arrangements/concessions up-front to get the regular night off. We also have a rule that the game goes on if there's only one absent, and someone else plays their character.As a DM I cut out as much bookkeeping as possible, so the focus is on the game itself - I'm using a 'you level every once in a while' scheme instead of scrupulously calculating XP; helps to fit prep time in with the rest of my life.As far as finding players, you'd be surprised how many older gamers there are out there. We actually have more people interested than we can fit into our group, and we're not exactly advertising... we're just telling our friends what we do when they ask about our weekend.I hear ya on the work awkwardness... I'm pretty circumspect about who knows, only because they might not be mature enough to understand the allure of what I call 'Geek Poker'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Good luck. <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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