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<blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 2612355" data-attributes="member: 9391"><p>It's a courtesy issue -- weighing ten minutes of your free time vs. ten minutes of the whole group's time, and deciding anyway not to update your character sheet until the start of the next session. But not everybody will see it that way.</p><p></p><p>Our group gets together for about 3 1/2 hours once a week, and the first half-hour to hour is always spent having conversations, getting game materials organized, etc. I don't think of it as wasted time, because these are friends and we're socializing. (I don't really have much interest in playing with people I'm not friends with, any more than I'd want to, say, go bowling with them every week.)</p><p></p><p>Although I tell you the biggest thing that made me stop being a martyr about being GM -- moving to systems where I only had to do an hour or so of prep a 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=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SweeneyTodd, post: 2612355, member: 9391"] It's a courtesy issue -- weighing ten minutes of your free time vs. ten minutes of the whole group's time, and deciding anyway not to update your character sheet until the start of the next session. But not everybody will see it that way. Our group gets together for about 3 1/2 hours once a week, and the first half-hour to hour is always spent having conversations, getting game materials organized, etc. I don't think of it as wasted time, because these are friends and we're socializing. (I don't really have much interest in playing with people I'm not friends with, any more than I'd want to, say, go bowling with them every week.) Although I tell you the biggest thing that made me stop being a martyr about being GM -- moving to systems where I only had to do an hour or so of prep a week. :) [/QUOTE]
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