Are you too tired to play D&D? /u/UglyCircuit DnD: Roll for Initiative!

My group are all longtime players, who really enjoy the games we play a lot. But we’re all also grown adults with children and busy jobs, and more often than not D&D night comes along and at least one of us sheepishly says the week was hard for this reason and that and that they would rather do something like watch a movie or play a board game.

I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this in their group. It’s absolutely legit – this isn’t a case of players not enjoying the game: all of us, including me, have used this excuse. What is it about D&D that makes it so much harder to bring oneself to engage with it when we’re tired? And is there a way to run a game such that even for us world-weary adults, D&D night can be just as easy to take part in as, say, playing a game of Carcassonne?

My group are all longtime players, who really enjoy the games we play a lot. But we’re all also grown adults with children and busy jobs, and more often than not D&D night comes along and at least one of us sheepishly says the week was hard for this reason and that and that they would rather do something like watch a movie or play a board game.

I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this in their group. It’s absolutely legit – this isn’t a case of players not enjoying the game: all of us, including me, have used this excuse. What is it about D&D that makes it so much harder to bring oneself to engage with it when we’re tired? And is there a way to run a game such that even for us world-weary adults, D&D night can be just as easy to take part in as, say, playing a game of Carcassonne?