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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 1556421" data-attributes="member: 5885">I have high expectations, and my experiences are usually worse than expected.Time is killing my gaming. When the group I run for started gaming together, almost 10 years ago, we were all young and into the game. We had a 10 hour session ever Saturday. I spent hours working on elaborate storylines for their compex characters and we would work out both the current campaign as well as the characters' personal goals and ambitions over the course of year long campaigns. Word spread about that game and we actually had a waiting list at one time of people who wanted to get a seat at the table. It was amazing!Now we are all a bit older. I'm still a role playing fanatic and I spend pretty much every waking hour thinking about some aspect of gaming. I continue to put a ton of effort into campaigns with major plotlines, underlying plot threads, mysteries, and all kinds of excitement... But we don't get to game like we used to. Children, spouses, work, and other hobbies have reduced us to a 7 hour session every other week, with half that time spent discussing things other than gaming. People don't seem to be able to follow the storyline of the game from session to session so it quickly degrades into hack and slash. Without a storyline to inspire them the characters generally have no concept or dimension about them. I drive 2 hours to every session (I moved away about 5 years ago but promised to keep coming back for games) thinking that this is the week things start to change, and drive back later that night depressed that they have not.The game isn't what it used to be for me, and that sucks because I'm certain it isn't because I've lost interest. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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