Over the years, I’ve been a gamer of various sorts. But my first love, before all this fancy computer stuff, was TSR’s Dungeon’s and Dragons. Not the Advanced stuff, but the original red-box-only-goes-to-level -3 Basic Set. And the Blue you-want-more-levels?-ok-here’s-levels-4-to-14 Expert Set.

And yes, I “graduated” to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (back in the day when Cthulhu was still in Deities & Demigods), and was so disgusted by 2nd Edition that I gave it up. Well, gave up D&D – I’ve since played and ran World of Darkness games, messed with GURPs, explored single player computer RPGS, been hooked on the crack that is MMORPGs, Final Fantasied it up, and so forth.

But the call is still there. Tabletop. Old-school, as it were. And 4th Edition D&D looks so…enticing. Shiny in all the right places and all the problems with 2nd edition are long gone and 3&3.5 got such good reviews….

And my kids are about the right age – well, R is, anyway. J may have a few more years to go.

So I’m going to pick up the core rules. And plan out an adventure. Maybe just a couple of one-shot single session deals to get a feel for it.

You know, ease back into it.

The only problem? Scheduling. I’ve got the kids every other week, and with school starting back up in a few weeks (already?!), I’m tethered to the house those nights. Leaving these questions :

Maybe one week at our place, one week at someone else’s?
Do I use an online tool like OpenRPG?
What night? I have to keep Wednesdays free, for sure. And sometimes Tuesdays. Sundays? Mondays?

I mean, how does one schedule these things anymore?