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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2620141" data-attributes="member: 32740">You clearly have limited time available to you and are organized in how you spend it.  You are always prepared for D&D because, like everything else in your life, you are motivated to budget the time you have.  You also have D&D assigned a certain priority - kids first, D&D later.  You have it fit into your busy life quite sensibly and carefully.Not everyone leads your life as you clearly point out.  Other people place different priorities on D&D; where it fits into their lives, when they spend time on it and how they spend that time is not the same as you and you really shouldn't expect it to.  They are lazy about D&D because they CAN be.  They come unprepared because they don't need to be and clearly don't have anything motivating them to be.  By your own analysis these other players don't have anywhere near the demands on their time as you do, so if they really felt strongly about D&D don't you think they'd be MORE sure not to leave home without finding their character sheet, making sure long before game-time that it's updated, make it a point to get their miniature painted or have someone else do it for them, etc.?As it stands now (it seems) they aren't doing anything that you aren't willing to allow them to do, rant or no.</blockquote>