Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

Everyone, tell us about your games, please.

1.) How many players in your group?

2.) Do you DM?

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

8.) Who taught you to play?

Answer any or all of the above, please...




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Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please!

Couldn't really call me a lurker, but what the hey.

Mark said:

1.) How many players in your group?

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*counts* Four, plus DM.

2.) Do you DM?

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I have done, not frequently though.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

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The DM (um, duh) and one other player.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

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I'm the only woman.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

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Got three. The Orc's Nest, They Walk Among Us and Forbidden Planet. There's more I haven't been to, too.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

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Good mix, I think.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

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A year and a half, and I'm 23.

8.) Who taught you to play?

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Me! And my gaming group.

There. Satisfied?

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please!

Whee, first reply... (edit: dang, pipped at the post by randomling...)

1.) How many players in your group?

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Five to seven, depending on who's free to game this week.

2.) Do you DM?

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Almost all the time, through a combination of other people's reluctance, and my own ever-growing god-complex.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

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One is DMing an occasional Scarred Lands game following Mousferatu's Serpent Amphora modules. A couple more are planning a V:tM game and a d20 game based on Resident Evil.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

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Up until a few weeks ago, 100% guys, but one of the others has managed to convince his SO to join us, and she's taken to gaming like a fish to water.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

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There's an excellent store a half-hour's drive away that sells a wide variety of gaming and similar stuff (Computer games, CCGs, DVDs, even has a few arcade games). Run by a gamer with good business sense, too.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

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I run mostly homebrew (website for my world is still in progress, and has been for months), with bits and pieces of modules tweaked to fit.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

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Since I came to University in late 1996. I'm 25 now.

8.) Who taught you to play?

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A collection of strange yet decent folks at the university gaming society.

And a question of my own for everyone else:

9. What are you playing at the moment?

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Star Wars, a long-running game where I've been having far too much fun playing with players' heads.

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please!

Mark said:

LURKERS AND POSTERS WHO ARE NOT GOING TO GENCON ARISE AND POST!

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I'm in the latter group... and I only really game online, so my answers may sound a little odd...

1.) How many players in your group?

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Not including DM...
Psionicle: 7
Of Sound Mind: 5 or 6
Academy of Drell: 6 or 7
Sealed in Blood: 12 or 13

2.) Do you DM?

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The Psionicle, yes. All the others, no.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

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All three of the DM's for the other games I'm in are or were in the Psionicle, at one point. So that's three. I know at least one other DMs, but I'm not in his games.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

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RL? Couldn't say. IC, 6/1 for the Psionicle. All the other games, my char is the only female in the group.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

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I got a couple! Rogue Traders is in downtown Green Bay, and The Great Escape is a just on the other side of town.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

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Homebrew. All the way. Campaign setting, and the game itself.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

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I've been playing for a decade, and I'm 16.

8.) Who taught you to play?

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My parents and their group of 5 or 6 people, which includes my aunt and uncle.

1.) How many players in your group?

There are currently three players in my group. A fourth player is spending the summer in Alaska processing fish.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

Unfortunately, no.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

What is this 'female' you speak of?

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

There are a couple of local game stores.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

I use modules frequently, but modify them to fit the current story arc.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

I have been playing since 1978 and I am 33 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?

My friends and I spent every recess and lunch period in the school library from the fourth grade on learning and playing a variety of games, including D&D.

1.) How many players in your group?

currently four

2.) Do you DM?

I'm going to be starting up my FR campaign monday(finally).

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

all except for the newbie. The main DM is Blackshirt5, then Rakeron is going to start running a test campaign for his alternate d20 system, and I'm going to start my FR campaign, which will reek of awesomness.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

4/0

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

If a WotC outlet counts as a good gamestore, yeah.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

ALL homebrew, baby!

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

I started 'playing' D&D about 5 years ago, but there was a 3-year hiatus, and then about two years ago I started back up again, on and off.

8.) Who taught you to play?

ME.

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please!

1.) How many players in your group?

Me (DM) = 4 regulars + approx. 3 occassional drop-ins

2.) Do you DM?

Yup!

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

Everybody DM's. I'm the Grand Pooba of the DM'ing, establishing the world, the main plot and running most of the big adventures, but everybody runs an adventure of their own, every 6 months to a year.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

1 female reg; 1 female drop-in. Rest male.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

Compleat Strategist in NYC.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

All homebrew, but I steal from all over. (Most recently, a lot of Dragonstar.) The players have run a couple of well known d20 modules (NeMoren's and one of the Freeport's).

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

26 now. Been playing since 1981.

8.) Who taught you to play?

My brother and sister read an article about D&D in the paper, and made my mother run a game for us. It was a few months till we actually had the rules. My first character sheet was a picture with an equipment list.

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1.) How many players in your group?
2.) Do you DM?
3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
8.) Who taught you to play?

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1 - as many as 9 players.
2 - Yes.
3 - Yes, three or four others. We usually trade games from week to week.
4 - Two women, the rest are men.
5- The Compleat Strategist, baby! Yo, New York City!
6 - mostly homebrew stuff. mostly 3rd Edition D&D these days.
7 - I'm almost 34, which means I've been gaming for 25 years.
8 - a neighborhood kid whose parents took his D&D books away from him and burned them because they were satanic.

1: I have 3 groups. One group has 7 people, though we usually game with 5 or 6 of them at a time. The other has 6. The last has 4. (There is some overlap between the groups.)

2: I do not currently DM any D&D campaigns, though I do GM 2 other kinds of RPGs. (Alternity and Exalted)

3: There are two other DMs, both in the first group.

4: All groups are men only, though this was not always the case. Efforts are being made to involve significant others into the game.

5: Nope. Nearest gamestore requires taking the train.

6: Homebrew.

7: I am 20 years old, and have been gaming for... *counts* 8 years I think. Give or take.

8: A friend of mine from school, who is currently still one of the two DMs I mentioned (the other is his brother, who also taught me I guess).

By now though, the student has surpassed the master... (Which is not hard, considering I already knew them well before they started playing D&D, so we both learned it at once.)

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please!

1.) How many players in your group?

a) Group 1: 5
b) Group 2: 4
c) Group 3: 3

2.) Do you DM?

a) Group 1: Yes
b) Group 2: No
c) Group 3: Yes

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?

a) Group 1: Nope, I'm king cheese here
b) Group 2: 2 DM's, 2 diffrent campaigns
c) Group 3: 3 DM's, 3 diffrent campaigns

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?

a) Group 1: 1 female
b) Group 2: what's a female?
c) Group 3: what's a female?

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?

Le valet'd coeur! woot!

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

a) Group 1: FR, but homebrew
b) Group 2: all homebrew
c) Group 3: all homebrew

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?

17 years / 27

8.) Who taught you to play?

Entirely self-taught, OOD-style

TS