So here it is, a new year, and you are thinking, "Heck, I need to roleplay more!" But after school activities, work, and house work are getting in the way...darn it anywho!. Well here are some small things you can do to allow yourself to roleplay, even if it's just for a short amount of time.
My husband and I have two kids. Kids who have after school activities that constantly fill our calender, not to mention all the volunteering that we do on top of it. Our roleplaying friends are far away or just as busy as us. So here are some things we do.
1) Roleplay by email. It's slower and not as fun, because there isn't the social aspect, but at least you get some time in. What we did was the GM would email out the situation and descriptions and add in any dialogue anyone wanted to add then wait for replies to that certain situation and then bundle it back up again before adding some more to the situation. Conversations between PC's sometimes lasted far past the encounter, but that's okay.
2)Roleplay with the Kids. Ours are just about the right age to understand the rules and they love the idea of being dwarves and elves and orcs and the like. (My daughter loves being a dwarven Paladin in Pathfinder...) Some things you need to bare in mind is that kids can't sit for a long time. 2 hours tops. And you can't have a lot of adult subjects, so that does limit some roleplaying and scenarios. But we love setting our "Family Time" aside on Sundays to get a few hours in with the kids.
3)Just mark a time down on the calender and invite the friends over to play. If we want time for ourselves we write it on the calender...otherwise that day is likely to get filled with other things. Make it an event. Order pizza, get a movie for the kiddos who will probably be left out of the gaming. Make it a fun social event, even if it's only for a few hours and only once every other month or so.
Happy Gaming!
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