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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 6743128" data-attributes="member: 6667193">I didn't have that luxury for a very long time, and endured a lot of merely decent and outright mediocre DMs in the process; most experiences were ok, a few were really bad, but none were particularly great, regardless of the system being used. It's only in the last couple of years that life finally settled down enough for me to make friends outside of gaming, a few of which are also gamers, and thus provide a core group of people that I can rely on to have a really good experience gaming with. I am very thankful that I have that now, and, while I am glad to have had the experience of bouncing between groups because of the perspective it gave me that many don't have, I am glad that I no longer have to rely solely on that kind of experience to get any gaming done at all.  I still have one group I play with regularly that is a public pick up group, even if it's mostly the same players every week, but I don't approach that group the same way I do the closed groups played at DM's houses, and it's not my only game.It was okay enough when I was younger and had the time and energy to  deal with the inevitable bad experience, but I have less time and energy  for hobbies now, so not having to deal with all of that is really nice.</blockquote>