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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9829922" data-attributes="member: 7635">Correct. Which is one of the many reasons I gave up homebrewing for a rotating series of settings depending on the game.The Internet has made finding a game easier, buts it's not order a pizza easy. I live in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area and I don't see a large call for open tables. I guess there is AL at my local FLGS, but it's a very different style of play than home games.It really depends on how comfortable you are with playing with complete strangers.How much free time do you think I have with work and family? I'm lucky I fit one group in!Yeah, when I was young, everyone tried their hands at DMing, but only two people were long term DMs, myself and one other guy who is the source of many of my Bad DM stories. So for years my options was DM or play something that catered to his whims. And his whims were unstated and mercurial. (He once decided druids were stupid. He didn't ban them outright, but he made it so hard to play one it was an exercise in frustration. He also has a weird hangup on characters being a different gender than the player and would actively discourage cross gender PCs). It wasn't until I moved away to college that I found a stable DM who was chill with everything and the game was glorious. So good that even when I moved back home after college, I could play in the old DMs group but our styles had changed so rapidly that we butted heads constantly. It would take him a decade to come around to a style I enjoyed again.But even today, after playing with probably a dozen different DMs and half-dozen different systems, I've seen enough to know what I want from a game and what is a red flag for me. And that starts at chargen because I refuse to have my fun determined by the DM deciding cat people are stupid.</blockquote>

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