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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4642342" data-attributes="member: 58197">I'm not bashing anybody, but your wife is wrong. Lots of people have weekly bowling leagues, bridge games, whatever. It just takes a certain level of commitment. Adult gamers can do regular games, but only if people make a reasonable effort to keep that night open; a player who always jettisons game night at the first hint of a scheduling conflict should probably reconsider playing in the first place. But my Thursday night group includes a player with a demanding job, a wife, and two very young children, and he shows up pretty reliably.Now, even with people making a reasonable effort, it will often happen that somebody can't make it. That's just life. I long ago learned that if you cancel the game whenever one player can't make it, you go into a downward spiral that destroys the campaign. (Because the game is always getting canceled, people start putting it lower on their priority lists when planning their schedules. This results in more absences and more cancellations. Pretty soon nobody shows up ever and the game dies.)My group generally follows the rule that if one player is absent, the game goes on; two players or more, and we take that week off the regular campaign. If there was warning in advance, we usually call off the whole session. If it was a last-minute cancellation, the people who did show up play board games, or Munchkin, or just sit around and shoot the bull for a few hours.It's also worth noting that certain times of the year are harder than others. Around late December to early January, you may as well give up expecting to game - too many people celebrating with family, often out of town.</blockquote>

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