Managing family scheduling and gaming (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by cosmosparda@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world

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I love D&D and have an on-going game that occurs twice a month on the first and third Saturday evenings of the month. The game has been going for a little over two years and I love it so much.

I am a father and husband too. Unfortunately, my wife is frustrated with having those Saturdays taken up on the schedule where she has to schedule things around them or go without me (vacations, family outings, etc). Admittedly she has done well at scheduling and should be given credit for her tolerance thus far.

Those of you who are successfully managing family schedules and gaming, what is your secret?

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[-] MindlessZ@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

My group is almost exclusively dads with fulltime jobs. We play remote (FoundryVTT), run one game a week that runs between 2 and 4 hours.

Full disclosure I'll say that remote is about 85% as good as playing in person, but I'll take 80% and easy scheduling over 100% but constant missed games or conflicts

[-] cosmosparda@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I like that idea but my DM is pretty solid on the in person thing. If I do end up leaving the table (hopefully not) I'll pursue replacing with a virtual game I think.

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