THE OTHER KIND OF GAMING

I really wanted to play DnD with friends, but it's honestly a lot to get them to play a one-time 3-4 hour board game like Last Day on Earth or Battlestar Galactica. I recently bought a bunch of the books, set up a grand campaign thing that I wrote and designed, and we played one time for 4 or so hours. It was a blast and everybody had fun, but it's just tough getting everyone together. I could play at the local gaming store on this one day of the week, but they're doing the new basic 4th edition of DnD and they only do short encounters, nothing like a campaign.