At R.K. Athey's request, this content has been relocated on his personal blog, Musings of a Role Playing Troll. ~Kristian
At R.K. Athey's request, this content has been relocated on his personal blog, Musings of a Role Playing Troll. ~Kristian
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My gaming group consists of mostly Married guys and professionals, and one Father, with a few more possibly on the horizon.
After looking over all our schedules we found the best time for our game is Sunday night 7-11, really more like 8-12.
Our thoughts were that there is rarely a family or school event on a Sunday night. We keep Friday and Saturday nights clear to spend with our Spouses and/or families.
Midnight is not too late to get a decent night's sleep and get up for work on Monday, and what better way to end a weekend then with some gaming.
Once we got the day of the week and time set, we then set up a Tri-weekly rotation, with 3 GM's running 3 games, so that we play weekly, but each GM only has 3 weeks to prep for his game.
@DNAphil: I used to play a face-to-face game on Sundays before I was married. It was a nice end to the weekend. Now that I'm married though, I rather enjoy spending the last evening of the weekend quietly with my family before having to go back to work for the week.
The rotation idea is a good one. I've done that myself, and The Dice of Life staff have a couple of campaigns in the works that we plan on rotating in the same way with some friends. The gaming groups might be different, but it helps everyone manage their schedules around their personal lives. It also helps the GM as you and R.K. Athey both stated already.
@R.K. Athey: The other advantage to the remote play is that if my wife needs my help with the baby, or if one of the other players' kids wakes up, it's easy to check out of the game for a moment and help. It's also useful if your spouse works until late at night and you're at home watching the kids by yourself.
i discovered maptool sometimes a year ago. It has the advantage to be platform independent (win, mac and linux) and it is for free.
Id did took some time to convince my old face to face buddies to play via the net and i lost some in the transition, but the rest of us enjoys gaming every other week.
@DNAphil: We had Sunday as an option but due to time zone differences and Sunday activities not everyone could make the session so we settled on Tuesday.
@Kristian: While in my Maptool/Savage World evangelist role I often use chat only. This is great as its a quieter option than the VoIP route.
@Anonymous: Every other week is the key for our group as well. We would have more players but some of the guys are still on dial up which doesn't work well with Maptool and VoIP. I'm organizing a Play by Post for those folks using the Maptool screen export feature.
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