Eventually lunch hour would come to an end and we’d pack up our things. One of us would volunteer to DM and that guy would grab whatever dungeon he was currently working on (or he had just read through) and we would start playing. To understand what I mean, let me cast your thoughts back to that time when I used to game all the time: Lunch hour (or any other snatch of free time) would roll around and we’d pull out our D&D manuals and our character sheets. And while I did it for all the right reasons, I’m pretty sure now that I threw the baby out with the bathwater. I’ve fundamentally changed the way I play roleplaying games. The ballpark/sport analogy is actually rather apt because what I’ve realized is that my schedule wasn’t the only thing that’s changed over the years. ![]() ![]() As we get older, after all, time becomes more precious.īut over the past year or so, I’ve realized that while I’ll probably never get back to that “every lunch hour” ballpark, it actually is possible to start playing the same sport again. And it’s not just that I was in a completely different ballpark from the days when we would play every lunch hour… it’s that I was playing a completely different sport.Īnd I figured that was just the way things had to be. But regular for us has usually meant averaging about two sessions a month. But even when I did, it became tougher to coordinate schedules tougher to find the free time even in my own schedule.įor the past few years I’ve been lucky enough to have a regular gaming group. There were times when I didn’t have anyone to play with at all. As I got older, of course, gaming became a bit scarcer. When I first started playing roleplaying games, way back in elementary school, I used to play RPGs all the time.
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