Dareoon Dalandrove
First Post
I've come to find myself in a rut and now I call out to you members of the board for some advice. For the past two months or more (I really feel it’s more who knows…) I find my enthusiasm to play dwindling. I currently live in Boston and travel each weekend to play with my long time friends. I'm in college so money is tight sometimes so the travel money can sometimes prevent me from playing. Throw in pizza, soda, beer, chips etc and it usually costs me 20-25 bucks for a day of playing. Now that is not a major thing but it helps to contribute to my problem.
The other thing is my dm and his wife. When we first started to play together my dm took time to draw up a world that was half rip off half unique. Everyone starts that way. It was fun. As the years have passed, specifically this last one, things have gone down hill. He has started to run more and more modules, getting away from the home brew adventures, and has gone off in to left field with the supplements. What I mean is he buys a new module (he just got necropolis and of course we are running it) and now it is part of the world. He bought hallowfaust, ditto. Rappan Arthuk, Forgotten Realms, Oriental Adv, Relics and rituals, he get access to this stuff either he buys it or a player has it and it all goes together with his home brew stuff. A big problem is that there can be a lot of conflict of rules. In fairness I should also mention that they have 4 kids now. So I can understand that he may not have a lot of prep time to plan home brew adventures like before but he doesn't even read the module ahead of time. We fought this cleric in another module who had protection from missiles and a ring of fire resistance. These had no affect when we were killing him and he got hit with both. Our game nights are getting shorter and shorter too. We might get to play for maybe 4 hours IF were lucky. Most times its 2.5.
The wife problem is a bit more intense. One friend refuses to play with her ever again. She has come to rule the world that we play in. Her characters rule most of the world. When my Dm runs a module she reads it ahead of time. She'll say things that come out of nowhere in the middle of a module that she would only now if she read it. This can be a spoiler for those that have not played it, In Necropolis there are these crocodiles that have these statues inside of them. We fought one and her character that NEVER gets into melee decides that the thing had to have its head cut off after it is killed. Cutting it open is the only way to find the item. There are other times that things like that have happened maybe that wasn't a great example but we are all convinced that she reads them. We also got a new player in our group and he decided to run OA. She complained the entire time. Everything was against the rules, you cheating etc. She just made the game hell. So we decided to play with out her or our DM who is a friend. So I'm thinking that maybe I aught to give it up. I still like to play but it doesn't seem to be worth the battle. I really need to be refreshed so that I can go back with hopes that things will get better or just have some real fun again. This whole thing has put a real damper on our group. Me and another player whose one of my best friends had a big fight this weekend about gaming. I want to have fun again but it seems hopeless.
Sorry for my rant I know it jumps around a bit.
The other thing is my dm and his wife. When we first started to play together my dm took time to draw up a world that was half rip off half unique. Everyone starts that way. It was fun. As the years have passed, specifically this last one, things have gone down hill. He has started to run more and more modules, getting away from the home brew adventures, and has gone off in to left field with the supplements. What I mean is he buys a new module (he just got necropolis and of course we are running it) and now it is part of the world. He bought hallowfaust, ditto. Rappan Arthuk, Forgotten Realms, Oriental Adv, Relics and rituals, he get access to this stuff either he buys it or a player has it and it all goes together with his home brew stuff. A big problem is that there can be a lot of conflict of rules. In fairness I should also mention that they have 4 kids now. So I can understand that he may not have a lot of prep time to plan home brew adventures like before but he doesn't even read the module ahead of time. We fought this cleric in another module who had protection from missiles and a ring of fire resistance. These had no affect when we were killing him and he got hit with both. Our game nights are getting shorter and shorter too. We might get to play for maybe 4 hours IF were lucky. Most times its 2.5.
The wife problem is a bit more intense. One friend refuses to play with her ever again. She has come to rule the world that we play in. Her characters rule most of the world. When my Dm runs a module she reads it ahead of time. She'll say things that come out of nowhere in the middle of a module that she would only now if she read it. This can be a spoiler for those that have not played it, In Necropolis there are these crocodiles that have these statues inside of them. We fought one and her character that NEVER gets into melee decides that the thing had to have its head cut off after it is killed. Cutting it open is the only way to find the item. There are other times that things like that have happened maybe that wasn't a great example but we are all convinced that she reads them. We also got a new player in our group and he decided to run OA. She complained the entire time. Everything was against the rules, you cheating etc. She just made the game hell. So we decided to play with out her or our DM who is a friend. So I'm thinking that maybe I aught to give it up. I still like to play but it doesn't seem to be worth the battle. I really need to be refreshed so that I can go back with hopes that things will get better or just have some real fun again. This whole thing has put a real damper on our group. Me and another player whose one of my best friends had a big fight this weekend about gaming. I want to have fun again but it seems hopeless.
Sorry for my rant I know it jumps around a bit.
It isn't your imagination; friends or not, the group sounds intolerable.
