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<blockquote data-quote="dougmander" data-source="post: 3281514" data-attributes="member: 14375">My thoughts exactly. For over-forties like me,&nbsp; especially with kids, carving out some time to have a game is tough -- we manage it about once every two weeks, for about three hours. That's just not enough for me.For me, the &quot;magical means&quot; you speak of turns out to be the online environment <a href="http://www.secondlife.com" target="_blank">Second Life</a> . I DM there every Friday night for three friends who live too far away to ever game together in person. If you're not familiar with it, SL is an online 3-D environment that is created and owned by its residents. I've been using it to build dungeon scenery, life-size &quot;minis&quot; to represent the monsters, spell effects, weapons, and so on. The players come to the game &quot;in-character&quot;, with marvelous costumes and custom-made avatars. We use a chat-based dice roller, plus in-game notecards to keep track of hp, XP, and so on.Right now there are dozens of people who want to play, but we have only a couple of active DMs -- we need more! If you're interested in coming to SL to see how it all works, let me know. It's free to join, and I can set you up with everything you need to run a game. Click on the link in my sig file to see some screen captures of my game in action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dougmander, post: 3281514, member: 14375"] My thoughts exactly. For over-forties like me, especially with kids, carving out some time to have a game is tough -- we manage it about once every two weeks, for about three hours. That's just not enough for me. For me, the "magical means" you speak of turns out to be the online environment [URL=http://www.secondlife.com]Second Life[/URL] . I DM there every Friday night for three friends who live too far away to ever game together in person. If you're not familiar with it, SL is an online 3-D environment that is created and owned by its residents. I've been using it to build dungeon scenery, life-size "minis" to represent the monsters, spell effects, weapons, and so on. The players come to the game "in-character", with marvelous costumes and custom-made avatars. We use a chat-based dice roller, plus in-game notecards to keep track of hp, XP, and so on. Right now there are dozens of people who want to play, but we have only a couple of active DMs -- we need more! If you're interested in coming to SL to see how it all works, let me know. It's free to join, and I can set you up with everything you need to run a game. Click on the link in my sig file to see some screen captures of my game in action. [/QUOTE]

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