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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9611527" data-attributes="member: 6684958">This can vary a lot with game play.  The big thing here is to have everyone be eager and focused.  Such a group can level fast.This is part of having dedicated gamers.  People that don't "need" to take off for holidays.  People that want to game.Adults can do this too.  Dedication knows no age.This is an individual thing, but again is quite do able with dedication.There are ways like have everyone bring different books or use stuff online.There are a couple ways.......Everything you say is very true.  Everything said makes high level games hard, or even impossible.But don't give up hope:  RPGs are built on Hope.  I couple of years ago I was in the slump of little RPG activity.  Then I decided to change that, by altering reality myself.1. Find the dedicated players.  I accept no excuses short of your house exploding.  So for each group of five players, I would shrink it down to one or two fast.  Then get another new group of players.  And after a few weeks, have a group of dedicated players that always show up and never call off.  Such people do exist.2.New Players.  For a high level game, this is often the best way to go.  New players don't have years of gaming baggage and have likely never even heard of the gaming buzz words.  They just play the game and have fun.  3.Playing Anytime.  I've run games like a 5am to 6am game everyday.  We'd all meet and game like crazy for that hour, then go home and head off to work.  This worked AMAZINGLY well for people with kids or hostile spouses. We'd just game while they were all asleep.  This also works as an afternoon game from like 3-4.The long weekend:  everyone comes over by 8pm Friday and we game till midnight.  Everyone sleeps over so we can wake up at 6 sih am and game until noon or so.  We break so people can do family stuff in the afternoon, and get back to gaming 8pm to 12am, and then 6am to 9 am on Sunday.  Or hours close to that.  4.DM control and saying No.  Very much needed for high level games.  The DM controls the game.  You ask for something, the DM can and will say No.  And if they do, you drop it.  This works great.5.Easy Prep is reusing things from what ever print you have.  And 2025 gives us programs to create stuff....and, of course, AI.It just takes dedication.</blockquote>

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