Bought a House, Became Poly-Gamerous

A little over a year ago I bought a house.  I love my house.  It has too many bathrooms, but better too many than to few.  I just have to remember to flush all the toilets once a month.  It's like a victory lap for home-ownership!

I bought a house a mile away from my best friends, and about 20 minutes from the other couple that together make up my primary gaming group.  It was so very convenient-no more hour drive for game night!  Then within 6 months the other couple moved close to an hour and a half away.  Seriously, I need to take 4 highways and state route to get there.  I'm happy for them, and it was a great choice for them, but it meant our weekly game night became more like monthly (and one of our other members moved to New Jersey so we figured he was lost in time and space).  But we had discovered LEGACY GAMES!

For those who don't know, a legacy game is usually a variant of a tabletop board game in which the game itself is designed, through various mechanics, to change permanently over the course of a series of sessions (thank you Google for not making me use my own words).  So we started Charterstone, fun game of resources and taunting each other about getting past the crack (the fold in the board).

But then another friend who is passionate about his games fell in love with Gloomhaven, another legacy game, but needed 3 more people.  I have people!  And I'm missing my game night.  So this is how I became poly-gamerous.  A splinter group was formed and we started getting together monthly for GH.   Both games take a few hours to play, so these are weekend affairs since we all live about an hour from each other.

So I was good right?  Apparently not.  As our GH enthusiast and I were playing games waiting to go to a hockey game he suggested the Arkham Horror Card Game -and I do love Arkham Horror, so of course I was in!  It too is a campaign based game, so now I've got 3 groups, 3 games, all of which need weekend time to pay.

But wait!  Before my original group scattered to the 4 winds we were also playing Pathfinder Skull and Shackles.  Never one to give up a story, we play this once every few months, usually doing a run of Charterstone in the early part of the day and Pathfinder in the afternoon.

For all these we try to rotate locations so no one is driving or hosting every time.  We get a chance to talk, have food, laugh, catch up, mock each other.  It really is a great way to stay connected.

But man, I bought a house and now I live in my car.