As a father of twin toddlers in my late twenties, with a pregnant wife and full time job, I have limited consistent free time. A few months ago I was feeling the itch again and had to either play or DM but struggled to think of a time or group to consistently play.
One day I was sitting at lunch staring at my phone when I realized that my office had a whole bunch of TTRPG players with an hour in the middle of their day available. I started asking around and quickly found six players that were interested in playing!
Finding players may have been easy, but figuring out how to run one hour sessions was tricky. We could play consistently, but there were always going to be meetings or calls or sickness that would pop up so I knew I needed to create a setting that could account for this and be flexible.
A Library was my solution. The players would be library employees going out on missions to recover stolen or overdue books. The library had a portal system that makes travel in and out of various towns and cities easy and there’d always be another book to recover. This allowed for episodic adventures with built in motivations and flexibility. I have a lot of systems in place to allow for the sandbox to function. There are big powers at play that the observant player can notice, but most missions only take a handful of sessions. The players all created characters that were hungry for knowledge (or a consistent paycheck 😂) and before long, we were playing!
Here we are a few months later. I went from running a regular Tuesday session to running side quests and one offs on Thursdays. We recently found several more players and just split the party of six into three squads of four all living in the same world and working for the library.
These days it can be hard to make new friends. I’ve never really interacted with coworkers outside of my small bubble, but running these games has changed everything. I have something to look forward to during work. I have players randomly show up at my desk to ask about the next session or some new connection between them and the world.
Anyway, this is a really long post and really just wanted to say that D&D is amazing. I know it can be hard to find a group or time, but when you do, it’s so worth it! Keep gaming and thank you to all you players that give us DMs something to look forward to!
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r/DnD As a father of twin toddlers in my late twenties, with a pregnant wife and full time job, I have limited consistent free time. A few months ago I was feeling the itch again and had to either play or DM but struggled to think of a time or group to consistently play. One day I was sitting at lunch staring at my phone when I realized that my office had a whole bunch of TTRPG players with an hour in the middle of their day available. I started asking around and quickly found six players that were interested in playing! Finding players may have been easy, but figuring out how to run one hour sessions was tricky. We could play consistently, but there were always going to be meetings or calls or sickness that would pop up so I knew I needed to create a setting that could account for this and be flexible. A Library was my solution. The players would be library employees going out on missions to recover stolen or overdue books. The library had a portal system that makes travel in and out of various towns and cities easy and there’d always be another book to recover. This allowed for episodic adventures with built in motivations and flexibility. I have a lot of systems in place to allow for the sandbox to function. There are big powers at play that the observant player can notice, but most missions only take a handful of sessions. The players all created characters that were hungry for knowledge (or a consistent paycheck 😂) and before long, we were playing! Here we are a few months later. I went from running a regular Tuesday session to running side quests and one offs on Thursdays. We recently found several more players and just split the party of six into three squads of four all living in the same world and working for the library. These days it can be hard to make new friends. I’ve never really interacted with coworkers outside of my small bubble, but running these games has changed everything. I have something to look forward to during work. I have players randomly show up at my desk to ask about the next session or some new connection between them and the world. Anyway, this is a really long post and really just wanted to say that D&D is amazing. I know it can be hard to find a group or time, but when you do, it’s so worth it! Keep gaming and thank you to all you players that give us DMs something to look forward to! submitted by /u/BreadNRice1 [link] [comments]
As a father of twin toddlers in my late twenties, with a pregnant wife and full time job, I have limited consistent free time. A few months ago I was feeling the itch again and had to either play or DM but struggled to think of a time or group to consistently play.
One day I was sitting at lunch staring at my phone when I realized that my office had a whole bunch of TTRPG players with an hour in the middle of their day available. I started asking around and quickly found six players that were interested in playing!
Finding players may have been easy, but figuring out how to run one hour sessions was tricky. We could play consistently, but there were always going to be meetings or calls or sickness that would pop up so I knew I needed to create a setting that could account for this and be flexible.
A Library was my solution. The players would be library employees going out on missions to recover stolen or overdue books. The library had a portal system that makes travel in and out of various towns and cities easy and there’d always be another book to recover. This allowed for episodic adventures with built in motivations and flexibility. I have a lot of systems in place to allow for the sandbox to function. There are big powers at play that the observant player can notice, but most missions only take a handful of sessions. The players all created characters that were hungry for knowledge (or a consistent paycheck 😂) and before long, we were playing!
Here we are a few months later. I went from running a regular Tuesday session to running side quests and one offs on Thursdays. We recently found several more players and just split the party of six into three squads of four all living in the same world and working for the library.
These days it can be hard to make new friends. I’ve never really interacted with coworkers outside of my small bubble, but running these games has changed everything. I have something to look forward to during work. I have players randomly show up at my desk to ask about the next session or some new connection between them and the world.
Anyway, this is a really long post and really just wanted to say that D&D is amazing. I know it can be hard to find a group or time, but when you do, it’s so worth it! Keep gaming and thank you to all you players that give us DMs something to look forward to!
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