Gaming groups: friends or all business?

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Hero

• Sep 15, 2003

• #1

Alright, I was reading another poll here, and I'm curious to what extent your gaming groups are your friends, or to what extent they are simply people you get together with to game? In other words, which comes first, the group or the game?

Right now, I'd vote my gaming group are my friends. They were people I knew before I gamed with them, although I didn't know at the time that they were into gaming. A year or so ago, however, I was gaming with people I met through a player board at a gamer store. I got along well enough with the group, but I was there to game only, not to hang out with them per se.

The reason I ask was sparked by some discussion in the "when to quit" thread; I think the answer is very different if you have a group of friends you game with as opposed to just a gaming group you game with.

 

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Crothian

First Post

• Sep 15, 2003

• #2

If they weren't my friends why would I want to game with them?

 

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Hero

• Sep 15, 2003

• #3

To game, obviously. The group I was with earlier were people that I didn't know at all outside of gaming.

 

A2Z

Adventurer

• Sep 15, 2003

• #4

Joshua Dyal said:

Right now, I'd vote my gaming group are my friends. They were people I knew before I gamed with them, although I didn't know at the time that they were into gaming. A year or so ago, however, I was gaming with people I met through a player board at a gamer store. I got along well enough with the group, but I was there to game only, not to hang out with them per se.

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I liked you...

 

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Hero

• Sep 15, 2003

• #5

I like you too, Adam. If you ever want to get together to game again, let me know!

 

A2Z

Adventurer

• Sep 15, 2003

• #6

Joshua Dyal said:

I like you too, Adam. If you ever want to get together to game again, let me know!

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Yay! When do you want to drive to Windsor? We've finally got a little mini-group formed here. A whole 4 of us.

 

Piratecat

Sesquipedalian

• Sep 15, 2003

• #7

For my normal group, I'll only accept people whose company I also enjoy away from the gaming table. This means that our players tend to be interesting, fun and well-rounded - all of which makes them excellent gamers as well.

At conventions, though, I like nothing better than gaming with groups of complete strangers. I tend to make friends with the folks in these groups who I really click with, and they then quickly fall into the "good friends" category.

 

Mercule

Adventurer

• Sep 15, 2003

• #8

I primarily game with friends, but we often have a casual aquaintance or two thrown in the mix. Sometimes they grow to be friends, sometimes they don't.

_All_ of my current friends are people that I started gaming with and grew to be friends. In fact, my daughters' godfather is someone who was playing the same MUD as me and when we discovered we lived in the same dorm building as me, I invited him to join the game I was running. Then there was the guy who lived on his floor, who we added to the game when there was an openning, and the fellow in one of _his_ classes who he invited when he took over DMing, and so forth and so on.

We all graduated college years ago and still get together as a group at least twice a year. My local/more recent friendships have been built in a similar manner.

 

Crothian

First Post

• Sep 15, 2003

• #9

Joshua Dyal said:

To game, obviously. The group I was with earlier were people that I didn't know at all outside of gaming.

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Gaminmg with friends is much better, but like PC said at Conventions you want strangers.

 

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Green Knight

First Post

• Sep 15, 2003

• #10

Originally friends, but over the years, that gaming group's lost people as they've moved away. Let's see, three to central Florida, one to Michigan, and the most recent to California. I'm pretty much the last one left in Miami. So now I just look for people to game with, rather than game with friends. Unfortunately, no campaign I've found has ever lasted more than 2 games (To be more precise, most have fallen apart by the 2nd game. Two campaigns I joined are still ongoing, however I quit one because I'm sick of the Rifts rules, and the other I couldn't contact the players after the first game, as I lost my net connection afterwards, and by the time I got my net connection back the spot was filled).