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<blockquote data-quote="Mister Doug" data-source="post: 4294436" data-attributes="member: 66623">My group of friends who game stopped playing D&amp;D due to a number of reasons, bt some of that is the difficulty of getting our real lives to give us room to play a game balanced over multi-year scale. Playing D&amp;D so it wasn't frustrating required time commitments we couldn't make due to real life concerns or a willingness to dismiss balance by long-term play and focus on a mix of pick-up style sessions with some role-play. In the end, it didn't work, and some of the structures of D&amp;D were central to that. So much that D&amp;D is not even kept on the table for discussion of getting the group together again unless it is in much smaller groups.Of course, I don't think that 4e is going to fix some of these problems either, but making D&amp;D easier to just sit down and play is not an appeal just to the mainstream or to newbies, but to some real-life long-term gamers who find free time a rarer and rarer commodity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mister Doug, post: 4294436, member: 66623"] My group of friends who game stopped playing D&D due to a number of reasons, bt some of that is the difficulty of getting our real lives to give us room to play a game balanced over multi-year scale. Playing D&D so it wasn't frustrating required time commitments we couldn't make due to real life concerns or a willingness to dismiss balance by long-term play and focus on a mix of pick-up style sessions with some role-play. In the end, it didn't work, and some of the structures of D&D were central to that. So much that D&D is not even kept on the table for discussion of getting the group together again unless it is in much smaller groups. Of course, I don't think that 4e is going to fix some of these problems either, but making D&D easier to just sit down and play is not an appeal just to the mainstream or to newbies, but to some real-life long-term gamers who find free time a rarer and rarer commodity. [/QUOTE]

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