Tabletop Gaming Day

A lot of things change in twenty years of friendship.  We get older and hair goes grey and starts receding.  We move away, some of us get married and settle down to have kids.  It’s no wonder that our get-togethers have also changed over the years

There was a time in our early twenties when we’d meet in pubs nearly every weekend, our lives a cacophony of drunkenness and next morning regret.  Then as we reached our late twenties we’d meet a couple of times a year for our shared love of film.  Who could forget the annual Easter Film Festival – three days of back to back film that was more about endurance than enjoyment.

As we grew out of that and the friend pool dwindled (partly because of the horrors of the Easter Film Festival, partly because people drift apart and getting together becomes less important, more easy to miss), fFilms gave way to videogames in our thirties – weekends of playing rock band and other multiplayer games.  I was usually trying to write website updates in the kitchen.  The beer was replaced by tea.

And now as we start to move into our forties, our now near annual get-togethers have become about Tabletop gaming.  The first few were a bit of a mess, the hosts not really knowing the games.  This lead to long periods of waiting whilst they read or rules being changed mid-game (usually to their advantage I’d note) because they’d misread them.

But now, we seem like the early problems are ironed out.  A few of the group regularly tabletop game which has given them time to understand rules and have a couple of playthroughs.