My game night crew in Austin totally ghosted me for a new video game

We had a Gloomhaven campaign planned for Friday, but everyone bailed to play that new Helldivers 2 thing instead. I sat there with the map tiles and character sheets all set up for an hour before I gave up. Has your group ever ditched board games for something shiny and new?

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quinnm772mo ago

Man, that's brutal. My old group did something similar when that new Zelda game dropped. We were three sessions into a D&D campaign and suddenly it was all "sorry, gotta go explore Hyrule." I ended up eating two large pizzas by myself that night, just staring at my dungeon master screen. The worst part was they all came back a month later like nothing happened.

beth_park2mo ago

My Baldur's Gate 3 group vanished for six weeks.

wendy_henderson2115d ago

Six weeks is rough. My group went AWOL for two months once and I just sat there updating NPC backstories nobody would ever see. At least when they came back I had new material to guilt trip them with.

nina_taylor2mo ago

Honestly that pizza story hits way too close to home. My own DM screen collected dust for a solid month after the last big game release. The real kicker was pretending to be chill when they finally texted "so, game night this week?" like they didn't just ghost a whole campaign. Felt like getting dumped and then asked for a casual hangout.