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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1666677" data-attributes="member: 13654">I game with friends.  Almost always have, either getting into a group via a friend or gathering a group of new/old friends together, they bring in friends or aquaintences, etc.My personal history with D&D goes like this:Introduced to the game by an aquaintence in high school, Scott.  He's a grade above me and I only knew him to say "Hi!" to at the time but I guess he figured I was a good candidate to try out this new game he'd found.Brought in my younger brother and we both bring in a friend or two.  We game for what seems like AGES.  Scott is working at a pizza parlor and overhears a conversation about D&D.  He joins THEIR group (DM'ed by Casey) on the side.I try briefly to finagle my way into Casey's group.Scott and Casey annouce that they will JOIN campaigns under Casey (and Scott will thereafter only occasionally DM, and that's usually something other than D&D like Traveller or Marvel SH).  Characters all jump worlds in a single, big adventure and we have a REALLY BIG group.  At peak I think we had as many as 12 players in the roster and well over twice that many player characters, but I was the only one who played EVERY WEEK.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Scott moves to the other end of the state.Eventually that campaign winds down (about 10 years later) as players all go seperate ways.  I can't stand NOT playing so I take up DM'ing full time with a small group assembled from my brother, our cousin, and a few of their friends.  I run a few campaigns but they tend to fizzle out whenever summer comes around and they seem to have better/other things to do.  I am stupefied at this.Scott joins my group as a player.  Through him I eventually meet Bill, who Scott had played with after he'd moved.  I end up as a player in Bill's campaign with several new players.  Bill and I trade off as Shield Monkey - as one campaign dies, the other will start up a new game.Bill has a series of strokes and moves away so I take over and run a VERY successful campaign for a small group including Scott.Finally I move out of state taking a job with Bob, one of my now long-time players.  Bob and I find ourselves too old and set in our ways to want to risk/bother sorting through new players, and Bob's kids are just a bit too young and immature yet to bring into "OUR" game.  We repeatedly whine for Scott to move down here near us so we can start up again with a quorum but Scott is largely incommunicado.  Last I heard he was running a small game but haven't talked to him now in a few moons.After almost a year we finally begin again with myself, Bob, and his wife Rhonda.  I suspect we'll rapidly find it imperative to either let one or more of the kids in on "our" game, or else dig up an additional player from somewhere.I'm early 40's, the others are late 30's.  Bob and I do commercial satellite maintenance, Rhonda is now a secretary at an aircraft maintenance company.  I have 2 years of college learning nothing much useful.  Bob & Rhonda are both just HS grads but Bob has been running his own buisinesses since he got out of the military and Rhonda has been working or even running the office for said buisiness since they got married.I'd really like to have Scott as a player again as we both tend to approach roleplaying the same way.  I can run a game for just Bob and Rhonda but I think we'll really miss the great dynamics we had on that last campaign I ran.</blockquote>

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