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Other Games / Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« on: October 19, 2012, 03:59:17 am »Having a gaming group isn't always gravy though.
I have a gaming group made up of a bunch of friends I've known for some 5 years.
The thing is, in that time, I've gotten married and became a father while they're still going out every weekend getting drunk and drifting towards their 30's without any improvement in their lives. They're still doing exactly the same things as when they were 21.
Now I don't want to judge them because they can do whatever the hell they want, it's just that our lifestyles have gone "out of sync" as it were. They don't understand what it's like to have a meaningful relationship and to start a family.
I would love to find some new friends who understand when I can't make gamenight because the baby has been crying all day and my wife is at her wit's end. Also I would like some friends who actually think about the neighbors when they come over and not shout all night driving my wife insane.
On the other hand, I'm moving to my old village in a couple of weeks and maybe there will be some new neighbors interested in board games there who are socially acceptable. Fingers crossed!
You do seem to be using some sort of judgment on your friends when you use the word "improvement". Whether having kids is an improvement of your life is debatable, but more power to you that you see it that way during the first couple of weeks. The taxi driver giving me a ride home from the hospital (in Germany kids are routinely delivered in hospital, though some people opt for home births) said to me "it'll get more and more fun over time" and 9 years later I still think he was right!
My board game collection does bear some of the experience you are just making. A couple of months befor my first child was born, my friends got me "Age of Renaissance" for birthday, that Civilzation sequel which had taken me 13 hours on first try but had been loads of fun. I have left my copy alone, apart from removing the wrap, ever since. My current game buddies (neighbours and hiking club members) won't touch anything longer or more demanding than Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, or Wizards. My wife and kids would play the occasional Cyclades or 7 Wonders, but it takes a friend's 14yo son and his friend to open the Through the Ages box. The old classics (Titan, Britannia, 18xx) are gathering dust.
