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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J-H" data-source="post: 9405963" data-attributes="member: 7020951">Time and logistics.  I have two kids (family D&D game Saturday afternoon, 1-2 hours at a time).  My in person group meets Sundays 6:30pm-9:30pm because that's all we could carve out.I've had the same group sequentially, but with most of the players rotating out /  in due to RL, for the last 5 years.  I have one of my original 7 left, and the other 3 current players are all related to each other.  People quit the hobby, go back to school, get jobs, etc.  Age range 17 to mid/late 50s.  That group started at the FLGS, but the FLGS died due to lack of money, and I don't think we're going to get another one.  Those of us with full time jobs are really stuck doing weekends and after-hours, and that's a hard time to stay open in a small town where all the restaurants close by 8:30 except Sonic/DQ.  Replacement players have been recruited from church, people's relatives, people's school/work/etc., plus I have one more prospective member from the beekeeping club.  His company keeps sending him on trips so he hasn't had a chance to show up yet though.I did have another RL game on Fri night at my house... one guy from the big group, 1 guy from the library, and 2 from someone's work.  2 moved for work, another one kept having to work until 8pm, and that left me with just one, and he's a single dad so his time is pretty limited as well.I really don't see any opportunities for more D&D outside of either the library making an effort to stay open 4 hours late (requiring someone to approve OT), or a Saturday something when my boys are old enough to come with and handle 3-4 hours straight.   Or when I "retire" 25 years from now, if I have the energy, people, and memory.Other than that, everything is Play by Post with Discord for OOC.I have tried playing with Roll20 and over Discord a few times and it is a HUGE time commitment to sit there for 4 hours with a headset on through bedtime, on a weekend, etc., when play moves at half the pace of in person and I have a whole second screen right there to distract myself with and there is no cross-talk/table talk/socialization.  I'm not interested in live D&D unless there's a chance to actually build relationships with other human beings through conversations about things that are not just the game.  It's a people game, not a CRPG.</blockquote>

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