Foundry of Decay
First Post
Another disenchantment thread 
Well, I'm not disenchanted with D&D, or with the D20 system itself, but I've been finding lately that I just cannot find a solid group to game with around these parts.
While I am very used to having one player at a time, since It's how I grew up playing the game, I find things lacking that you'd get in a moderate or larger group.
Right now I have two people I game with, but one has a full time job, a child, and is usually very tired on the weekends, which is quite understandable! We used to play roughly 2 times a month, with another player who is new to the whole game thing, and were doing quite well. Lately though, we tend to game all together roughly once every 6 to 8 months, if that, and I find it nearly impossible to continue a campaign that way, since I tend to forget nearly EVERYTHING that was going on with characters, plot, people and devices.
The second player, who is new, was getting twitchy to play again, so I decided to do a one and one campaign with him. Due to myself being busy, we agreed on the old schedule of 2 times a month. The problem I have with him is that he hasn't set into a group mind set yet. He roleplays impossibly well! And he makes some highly creative characters with their own attitudes and such, but the group dichotomy isn't working out since one of the characters he's playing is bullheaded, and impatient, and the other is a conniving little sneak with a heart of gold when it comes down to it. Since It's such a painfully small group of characters, I tend to have a couple lower level, or lower power NPC's head along with them, and the mix doesn't seem to blend.
I find myself growing more and more disinterested in continuing on with either campaign. One because I just can't remember the overall plotline, and the other because of an odd mix, and odd style of 'novel-book' RP (Which would be fine, if there were other player characters to balance his characters a bit).
I like to play, and I certainly hope to again someday, perhaps in a larger group, though finding one around here doesn't seem very easy, but I think I'm going to throw in the towel until I can figure things out.
I'm working, partially, on a doing downloadable furniture, crates, walls, portals, floortiles, and buildings, just to keep a sort of back seat interest going though.
I'm just curious if a lot of other people go through periods like this? Ones where they seem in between actual groups, but still have one or two players on the fringes that might be interested, but are usually working so hard that they just can't go through a session at all?
Eh, sorry for the long post. I guess this was an exersize of catharsis..
Well, I'm not disenchanted with D&D, or with the D20 system itself, but I've been finding lately that I just cannot find a solid group to game with around these parts.
While I am very used to having one player at a time, since It's how I grew up playing the game, I find things lacking that you'd get in a moderate or larger group.
Right now I have two people I game with, but one has a full time job, a child, and is usually very tired on the weekends, which is quite understandable! We used to play roughly 2 times a month, with another player who is new to the whole game thing, and were doing quite well. Lately though, we tend to game all together roughly once every 6 to 8 months, if that, and I find it nearly impossible to continue a campaign that way, since I tend to forget nearly EVERYTHING that was going on with characters, plot, people and devices.
The second player, who is new, was getting twitchy to play again, so I decided to do a one and one campaign with him. Due to myself being busy, we agreed on the old schedule of 2 times a month. The problem I have with him is that he hasn't set into a group mind set yet. He roleplays impossibly well! And he makes some highly creative characters with their own attitudes and such, but the group dichotomy isn't working out since one of the characters he's playing is bullheaded, and impatient, and the other is a conniving little sneak with a heart of gold when it comes down to it. Since It's such a painfully small group of characters, I tend to have a couple lower level, or lower power NPC's head along with them, and the mix doesn't seem to blend.
I find myself growing more and more disinterested in continuing on with either campaign. One because I just can't remember the overall plotline, and the other because of an odd mix, and odd style of 'novel-book' RP (Which would be fine, if there were other player characters to balance his characters a bit).
I like to play, and I certainly hope to again someday, perhaps in a larger group, though finding one around here doesn't seem very easy, but I think I'm going to throw in the towel until I can figure things out.
I'm working, partially, on a doing downloadable furniture, crates, walls, portals, floortiles, and buildings, just to keep a sort of back seat interest going though.
I'm just curious if a lot of other people go through periods like this? Ones where they seem in between actual groups, but still have one or two players on the fringes that might be interested, but are usually working so hard that they just can't go through a session at all?
Eh, sorry for the long post. I guess this was an exersize of catharsis..
