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<blockquote data-quote="Sidereal Knight" data-source="post: 1340977" data-attributes="member: 9985">In high school and college, I gamed with groups of friends.&nbsp; We also socialized together and (in some cases) lived together.&nbsp; For the most part, we had good times...&nbsp; I am reminded of a Call of Cthulhu game I ran that ended up terrifying one of the players a few days later&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But I digress...For a year or so after college, I didn't game very much.&nbsp; The college group scattered to the four winds, and most of the people I was meeting weren't interested in gaming (or I wasn't interested in gaming with them).Finally, I was invited to join an established group by a proto-friend.&nbsp; I ended up gaming with them for the last 7+ years... In that time, the members have changed somewhat, and at this point I only count one of the current group as a &quot;friend.&quot; (I should... he's my life-partner!)&nbsp; The rest are friendly acquaintances at best, and &quot;folks-I-game-with&quot; at worst.&nbsp; They aren't bad people, and I do enjoy gaming with them, but we don't socialize outside of gaming and taking in the new LotR movies.&nbsp; We just don't have that much in common outside of gaming.There are probably a lot of reasons for this: age differences (early 30's for me, early 40's for most of the others), geographic differences, differences in interest, etc.(Why do I stay in this game?&nbsp; It's fun for the most part, and we don't have a lot of personality conflicts, but probably the best answer is inertia.)Then, a couple of months ago, my partner and I joined another game organized by a couple of friends we know outside of gaming.&nbsp; I feel like I have more in common with the new group than in any other I have played with since college. It's a bit early to call these new acquaitances &quot;friends&quot;, but I think the potential is there.&nbsp; I'm optimistic about this group... and I'm honest enough with myself to know I don't make friends easily.In fact, my dear husband asked me if I was worried that we'd get bored with the first group.&nbsp; I had to answer &quot;a bit&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sidereal Knight, post: 1340977, member: 9985"] In high school and college, I gamed with groups of friends. We also socialized together and (in some cases) lived together. For the most part, we had good times... I am reminded of a Call of Cthulhu game I ran that ended up terrifying one of the players a few days later :D But I digress... For a year or so after college, I didn't game very much. The college group scattered to the four winds, and most of the people I was meeting weren't interested in gaming (or I wasn't interested in gaming with them). Finally, I was invited to join an established group by a proto-friend. I ended up gaming with them for the last 7+ years... In that time, the members have changed somewhat, and at this point I only count one of the current group as a "friend." (I should... he's my life-partner!) The rest are friendly acquaintances at best, and "folks-I-game-with" at worst. They aren't bad people, and I do enjoy gaming with them, but we don't socialize outside of gaming and taking in the new LotR movies. We just don't have that much in common outside of gaming. There are probably a lot of reasons for this: age differences (early 30's for me, early 40's for most of the others), geographic differences, differences in interest, etc. (Why do I stay in this game? It's fun for the most part, and we don't have a lot of personality conflicts, but probably the best answer is inertia.) Then, a couple of months ago, my partner and I joined another game organized by a couple of friends we know outside of gaming. I feel like I have more in common with the new group than in any other I have played with since college. It's a bit early to call these new acquaitances "friends", but I think the potential is there. I'm optimistic about this group... and I'm honest enough with myself to know I don't make friends easily. In fact, my dear husband asked me if I was worried that we'd get bored with the first group. I had to answer "a bit". [/QUOTE]

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