Brief post, but last night's return to live gaming was a blast! It was nice to play a game with actual live humans again. People are still live humans on VTT, sure, but they are distracted people with narrow electronic pinholes peering in to the remote dominions of their cohorts. Not the same, in other words, as just being present around a table and gaming together.
The big advantage of gaming at the local game store, of course, happened immediately last night as we picked up a new player (first time since before the pandemic shutdown) and possibly a second down the road. You can meet people more easily (in person) by being in a common location where people congregate with like interests, and for us locally that means one of the two game stores we have (I bet the student annex at UNM or our community college might also work, too).
Either way, it was nice to be back to gaming in the manner for which it is most suited!
I've been playing in-store for about ten years now and I don't think I could go back to a home game. We don't have to be aware of sleeping kiddies or anything else and the clean-up is super simple. Glad you got to get back to in-person.
ReplyDeleteSo very true!
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