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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2062256" data-attributes="member: 1210">It's not really an option and even if it was I wouldn't really want to.  I work til about 11 pm, as does one of the other players, but multiple others work early in the a.m.  With only two days off that gives me one day for running my game and one day for either other stuff or for omrob to run his game. <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=":)" />  Multiple smaller sessions aren't practical if we want to play with any frequency, and we all do!  We're hard core gaming geeks, dude- we're not putting down the dice.  The fact that about 75% of the time we game on both of my days off should say something.... and some of the time I run both days (when omrob's not free on one of them, for instance, because he'd almost always prefer to play if he has to choose for the week).Besides that, continuity is pretty easy to maintain, and we're pretty easygoing about the fade in and fade out stuff- Craig shows up, and his character catches up with the party from an extended call of nature, or his fever breaks and he's ready to adventure, or whatever.  There was even one time when the 'fade-out' came back later (when the pcs were on trial) and became an important plot element.Also, the group's chemistry is awesome.  We're all friends outside of the game- some of us met through gaming, in fact now that I think about it, of the eight players and one sometimes player with us, I met five of them via gaming.  I don't want to give anyone the boot; and everyone gets enough 'face time' (I think) and we have bitchin' roleplaying goin' on in there.To make it a little more difficult, though, one of the players imc works at the same place as me, and works on the same shift as me, and our jobs overlap; one of us always has to be there.  So he always works on my days off, and I always work on his.  So his gaming time is reduced to about 11:15 pm and later.Another of our players gets up at ridiculous o'clock for work in the morning, and another guy who works til 7.  If we want a long session for (almost) everyone, we need to start early enough that the guy who works early can stay for a while- he's usually out by 9 or 10 pm at the latest- and so that the guy who gets here after 11 still gets a couple hours.  Our last few sessions have run from about 4 or 5 pm to about 2 or 3 am.Anyhow, the real reason is that the group is awesome as is.  We really only have continuity problems if someone barely shows up at all.</blockquote>

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