Does anyone here actually play in a weekly RL Rpg game?
I had been in several amazing games in the northeast, then I moved to Texas. There probably are good games down here, but I've yet to find any.
It's been almost 12 years, and I've had three attempts down here.
The first was a 3.5 D&D game with a group of college students at their apartment, a game that imploded because I dared interfere with the love/hate relationship between the DM and the min-max player in it, who were roommates and old friends. After the third game, that seemed about to end as the first two did, with both of them arguing about some bit of trivia until the player stalked off to his room in a huff for the rest of the night, I politely but firmly pointed out that perhaps this argument could wait until later.
I wasn't invited back.
The second was a group of local people I gamed with for a couple of weeks. We played one session of Basic Roleplaying Game (or something like that), and then two weeks of playing board games because the GM kept forgetting to show up.
Then I just stopped coming.
The third gaming group happened after I joined Rpol, so I was a little less hungry for a game. A coworker wanted to learn D&D, so I started a very casual game for her, her roommate, and her grown daughter. They were friends, but they weren't that good at it. Part of it was that they all had health problems that made them too tired to play for more than a few hours, and part was that they all constantly kept getting pulled away from the game for facebook, text messages, and Final Fantasy 14. They were good people who tried, but I'll admit that it got old every time I had to keep reminding them what their Armor class was and what die to roll to attack....every time.
In other words.......I'm very helpful I found Rpol. :)