This is a goal that I am most shocked that I’ve completed. It’s really hard to keep game nights going. Usually it’s one person starts bailing and soon the rest follow. Fingers crossed that doesn’t happen and hopefully I didn’t jinx something.
I had tried in the past to get game nights going, but it was always empty promises and then never actually getting to it. It wasn’t until last year that I found out the way to do game nights and to keep them going.
The secret is to stop playing only physical board games and dive into the world of role playing games. Since I’ve started doing weekly D&D sessions I’ve had a consistent game night. Yeah it’s not a full on board game, but it has game mechanics and at this point I’m grateful to be hanging out with friends playing any game.
I’ve also learned a game that you can play via online or in person is a great thing. Sometimes people just can’t meet up at a house, or people move, or you don’t feel like company. Adapting games over discord has been the best and honestly if it hadn’t been pandemic era I never would have thought of playing games over video calls. It was always in my brain that I had to have people over and set up a date and make a big deal out of game nights.
It’s much easier now. Sometimes it’s in person gaming, sometimes it’s over discord. It’s easy and it’s fun. I’m grateful to have a group to play games with because for the longest time it was just me and my brother playing complex tabletop games that took 5 hours to set up. Granted I’ll still do that whenever I hang out with my brother, but the RPG set up I’ve got going on right now is really nice.
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