Since coming back I've had my own struggle with this. At first I wanted to play a cleric, like I had on classic, but I pretty quickly realized that when RL can call at any time, it doesn't make sense to burden other people with my schedule. Having a wife/kids/other household obligations is definitely a limiting factor on what you can do.
But EQ is also a good game for us casual people because of the pace. EQ is a much slower paced and less concentration demanding game than modern MMOs, because there's so much time medding/waiting for mobs to spawn. I rerolled as a soloing class and love it, because I can step away whenever I need to, and often it was time I was just going to spend sitting there in the game anyway.
The great thing about EQ is that since so much of the game is in the leveling process, you can always log in and do something that has long-term meaning for your character. In a game like WoW, if you don't have time to do all the dailies/gear grinding for any given patch cycle, you will just be behind until the whole thing resets - the value of the casual amount of playtime gets wiped away every six months. Here, even if you can only chip away at the leveling grind 45 minutes a day, that 45 minutes a day of XP will always have value to your character.
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