Game Day: Changing Times
One of the great challenges in running a campaign in your 30s and 40s finding the time to game. Our group’s been lucky in this regard as we’ve been able to pick schedules that worked for most of the group, and still let us game on a weekly basis.
For most of our 16 years as a group we’ve followed a weekly schedule — first Mondays, then Fridays — that was role-playing game heavy. Originally we played all Dungeons & Dragons, all the time, but as our appreciation for board games grew we split the schedule to one board game session for every three RPG sessions. Or something like that. We found it was hard to stick to that schedule because people’s time got crazy, and suddenly we were sacrificing board games in the name of advancing the campaign.
As we enter our late 30s and early 40s, we’ve found the schedule must change again. Weekly RPG sessions are no longer possible given folks work and home schedules, so we’ve switched to biweekly games. The plan is to alternate RPGs and board games on a weekly basis.
