Change of place, Change of luck

[arnon]

That's an old Yiddish proverb.

I've talked about it in several posts i believe, but it wasn't final.

Well now it is, and it is why i wasn't around for the past week or so.

I've moved to a new city, one that most of you might have heard about: Theros Obsidia....err... i mean Jerusalem, and started to work here.

The downside of all this is that i had to stop gaming with with the group of friends who I've been playing with for the past half a year (see Ptolus and Skull & Bones threads) as driving almost 2 hours (each way) after a days work doesn't sound so much fun to me...

But all is not lost. Some of us will be buying Fantasy Grounds and will continue to play that way, including a friend in yet another city (and after a two year drought) is itching for a game. I'll be running a Midnight game, but will not be left out to dry and will also play from time to time. It's not the same as face-to-face, but it sure is better than nothing.

[Dirigible]

Theros Obsidia....err... i mean Jerusalem

If anyone else said that, it'd be antisemitic

You never know, maybe you'll find a new face to face group in your new abode. Good luck, arn

[Exile]

Yeah, best of luck.

I've enjoyed reading about your campaigns.

[Nifelhein]

Good luck arnon, you could think about making the trip every now and then and spend the weekend on yur old city, then you can have a game and still enjoy the old friends back there.

[arnon]

I'm one of those people who doesn't really have an old city. I lived in Be'er Sheva in southern Israel for 6 years during my studies, and since i returned from my trip i lived in a place called Zichron Ya'acov in the north (with my sister and her family)... i can go back even further but it's a bit of a mess, suffice to say that in the past 11 years in Israel i lived in five different cities.

The group i was playing with, some i met in university and have since then moved, and some have always lived in the area covered between Tel Aviv (center) and Haifa (north). But i will be making the trips. Remember, Israel is a tiny speck on the map, we constantly move around and cross the country without too much thought. And i will return to play with the group (face-to-face) once in a while as a "guest NPC" as the DM likes to call it (already done that several times when i was living in the south).

[Bleak Knight]

Jerusalem? I might end up visiting you some day, then! Good luck, and don't blow up/get shot/decapitated/other bad stuff that happens in Jerusalem all the time, because sometimes, we see it on the TV when there's news from the Middle East.

What's your work there anyway?

[InTheDark]

That's an old Yiddish proverb.

I've talked about it in several posts i believe, but it wasn't final.

Well now it is, and it is why i wasn't around for the past week or so.

I've moved to a new city, one that most of you might have heard about: Theros Obsidia....err... i mean Jerusalem, and started to work here.

The downside of all this is that i had to stop gaming with with the group of friends who I've been playing with for the past half a year (see Ptolus and Skull & Bones threads) as driving almost 2 hours (each way) after a days work doesn't sound so much fun to me...

But all is not lost. Some of us will be buying Fantasy Grounds and will continue to play that way, including a friend in yet another city (and after a two year drought) is itching for a game. I'll be running a Midnight game, but will not be left out to dry and will also play from time to time. It's not the same as face-to-face, but it sure is better than nothing.

This can be very true.  I once moved away from all my old contacts and it changed my life.  There's just a new feeling to a new city.  There is a different aura.  I suggest you work on changing yourself a bit too though.  The new place will not do it all

[arnon]

Heh... talk about "long time ago"

Let's see... in the almost 4 years that passed since that post I moved again this time truly changing my luck.

My time in Jerusalem was a very bad time for me on both a personal and professorial level. About 9 month later i left that job and that city and moved to Tel Aviv. I rented an apartment without knowing how i'd manage to pay for the rent because I had no job then... a day later i got a phone call for an interview and later landed that job. It marked a completely different direction career-wise for me, one that i'm very glad i did.

About two month after that I met the woman I married one year ago

And yes, I re-joined my friends the moment I moved to Tel Aviv and have been playing with them ever since.

So yes, the luck changed... it just required some more "change of place"

[InTheDark]

Good for you