>GM had to reschedule due to work
>new arranged time now interfere with my own work hours

Bros, it's too hard to be gaming as an adult

>>96234704 (OP)
Just quit work. Problem solved.

>>96234704 (OP)
Did your GM not check with the group before rescheduling?

My group's been going strong for about ten years now. All bar two of the group work full-time, three of us are doctors, one is a vet+researcher+teaches at the uni. We still manage to get a game in pretty much every fortnight.

>another thread about an adult men who can't play games
>another thread where all advice and help is ignored

>>96234704 (OP)
Kill yourself wagie
>>96234964
This.

Nah if anything it just sounds like they're rollplayers trying to roleplay

>>96234704 (OP)
This is an advantage of...play by post!

Do it with friends and it's not so retarded.

>>96234704 (OP)
can't you just play on weekends

>>96234704 (OP)
>Use something like bitpoll to find a viable date.
>Run a game with flexible party setup.
>Play by post.
It's not that hard.

>>96234704 (OP)
You have just to accept it happens and enjoy when you guys make it work.
I am occasionally BECMI-ing with people I used to play with when I was a child, reconnecting after decades.
It's a blessing, but you have to accept it's not going to be the 1-2 times per week now.
I would argue that if still you all can do frequently with no re-schedule, you are all either in a very good spot or in a very bad one.

>>96241751
If you work retail there really is no such thing as weekends

>>96234704 (OP)
Wait until you get a kid
>be me, work from 9am to 7-8pm every day
>have essentially 0 free time
>get a baby
>go from 0 free time, to essentially -1 free time
>somehow gets more shit done than ever, because now I'm trained to make use of every minute of down time I can find
It's uncanny

>fulltime salarymen with family obligations are always reliable in planning
>NEETS with nothing going on and part-time retail wagies somehow never fulfill an obligation ever

>>96247993
What?
Where did you get a baby?
Are the parents mad?

>>96247993
get a haircut

>>96248315
pic related is how you do it when you want to pull an Elon Musk family planning on a budget. You can even choose the sexiest moms
>>96248443
It looks great when it's tied up, I swear

>>96234704 (OP)
Get a real job.
2nd shift is not a real job.
Working weekends is not a real job.
Learn to code.

>>96234704 (OP)

Your game is every other week(weekly is too much, monthly isn't enough). It is either on Friday evening or Sunday afternoon. Friends/family will expect to be able to schedule things with you on Saturdays and on Sun-Thurs evenings everyone's dreading work the next day.

Don't ever reschedule. It leads to a lot of annoying back and forth and punishes the non-flakes. People need to have the game night firmly fixed in their mind. If someone can't make it, the shows goes on. If only 2-3 out of 6 show up, play a board game or put on Conan the Barbarian or Labyrinth instead.

Do some kind of roundtable recap before each session. And try to communicate between sessions with an app or group chat(this is actually one of the ways I filter people - the guy who wants you to send him a smoke signal because he's too cool for Discord or whatever probably won't be reliable).

>>96248701

>Learn to code.

See pic. I definitely agree with you about 2nd shift. It's a trap a lot of nerdy types fall into since they're more active at night and enjoy being able to work in peace since the higher level bossoids are gone.

>>96234704 (OP)
Just wait till you retire at 40

>>96234704 (OP)
I never knew how everyone else managed to find gaming groups before working. I had hundreds of potential games and campaigns fall apart because of college classes, and before that, responsibilities in high school. What was I doing wrong?

>>96234704 (OP)
> creates new improv game with unwitting coworkers during work hours

>>96250402
You got stuck in the rat race since high school

>>96250445
Mommy and daddy splitting up will do that.

>>96247993
The more you demand of your brain the more it produces and viceversa. It sounds counter intuitive because you assume that if you had more free time you could be getting more done in that time, but you also know NEETs drown in a slog of never getting anything done.

>>96249289
>Don't ever reschedule. It leads to a lot of annoying back and forth and punishes the non-flakes. People need to have the game night firmly fixed in their mind. If someone can't make it, the shows goes on. If only 2-3 out of 6 show up, play a board game or put on Conan the Barbarian or Labyrinth instead
This is the best advice ITT. I cancelled a game once, because a couple of key players couldn't show up and the next session even more people bailed out. It's like a curse.
"If you build it (a solid schedule), they will come"

>>96250684
>The more you demand of your brain the more it produces
Anon, what is your brain producing? Does it... do you collect samples?

>>96249289
>or put on... Labyrinth instead.
Correct advice not just for missed game nights, but really for any time of any day.

>>96250699
I've been on both sides of the aisle. I can, have, and will inevitably again run a game for a single person because the key players are the ones that actually show up.

>>96248701
>>96249289
What do you guys have against 2nd shifts?

>>96252953
Playing games at home at night is good but doing things in the morning is seen as evil because you cant be there some days of the week to baby these morons who can only game after their elderly brains spin up to full speed after 3pm? I have no fucking clue.

>>96253008
elders go dumb at night, it's called sundowning
Playing before working is seen as evil because you're using your energy for unproductive things and you should only enjoy your day after you've earned it.

Play solo. Join us in /srpgg/.

>>96248223
Meanwhile, me, the NEET who always fulfills every obligation, scream internally forever.

>>96253057
But playing is productive. Working is unproductive.

>>96234704 (OP)
>Have a solid group.
>Half of them are parents.
>Just do a bi-weekly game schedule.
>When the DM's kid was born, step in as short-term DM, run a 1-shot-turned-4-session-campaign-because-they-over-complicate-their-own-plan.
>DM comes back for the final session of that, steps back in to finish the main campaign.

We've had this handled well enough for years now.

It's not flawless, and we've been lucky. The game group I run with on the alternate bi-weekly days has been flaky as hell, partly my scheduling, partly another player getting into a relationship.

It takes time, effort, dedication on the group's part, and sometimes it will still fall apart, but if you keep trying and putting yourself out there, you can find a crew that'll see you through to the end of years-long games.

>>96247993
aww he has your face

>>96255546
Good one.

>>96234704 (OP)
I have run consistent games for 11 years now and only once have I had to cancel a session because of an emergency. Work, exercise, relationships etc are all easy to plan around and I consider anyone who fails to do this to be fucking annoying. The best players are people who show up reliably and on time.