Are you a Casual, Serious, or Hardcore RPG gamer?
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Eosin the Red
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I fall somewhere between hardcore and serious. I don't play nearly enough but otherwise RPGs are my entertainment.
Iron Sky
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I'm probably somewhere between Serious and Hardcore.
I probably average about 1 RPG book a year (roughly the same as the number of Board Games I buy a year). I check EnWorld once or twice a day, though usually it's either a quick skim through a handful of threads or posting on my SH.
I run a game 1/week and have a pick-up Scales of War game I play with my roommates 1-2 times a week as well. I have little desire to play more than that and would probably play less if any of my RPG buddies were more into Board/Minatures games.
I'd never heard of the Forge until this thread, though I did catch a GNS discussion here a while back so know what it is.
I probably average about 1 RPG book a year (roughly the same as the number of Board Games I buy a year). I check EnWorld once or twice a day, though usually it's either a quick skim through a handful of threads or posting on my SH.
I run a game 1/week and have a pick-up Scales of War game I play with my roommates 1-2 times a week as well. I have little desire to play more than that and would probably play less if any of my RPG buddies were more into Board/Minatures games.
I'd never heard of the Forge until this thread, though I did catch a GNS discussion here a while back so know what it is.
mhacdebhandia
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I voted "serious", but I consider myself to be partly "serious" and partly "hardcore".
I don't have or want a dedicated gaming room, but I certainly consider gaming one of my primary hobbies. I have a pretty sizeable collection of games and supplements, though it's more like "dozens" than "hundreds" or "thousands".
I don't think about my gaming in terms of GNS or GDS, but I frequently read RPG.Net (and, less often, here or the official D&D forums) so I'm quite familiar with the theories behind the labels. I know, for instance, that you don't properly call yourself a G, N, or S gamer, you describe your actual play as G-, N-, or S-focused.
I have played in multiple campaigns in the past, even the recent past, though I'm not really playing now, and only running one game infrequently.
I think about gaming and visit gaming forums every day I have internet access, but I go through patches of intense interest and patches of slackened interest. Right now, immediately after BlizzCon, I must admit I'm more jazzed about World of Warcraft: Cataclysm than anything for pen-and-paper gaming (though I did just order Geist: The Sin-Eaters, so that will probably excite me once it arrives).
I don't have or want a dedicated gaming room, but I certainly consider gaming one of my primary hobbies. I have a pretty sizeable collection of games and supplements, though it's more like "dozens" than "hundreds" or "thousands".
I don't think about my gaming in terms of GNS or GDS, but I frequently read RPG.Net (and, less often, here or the official D&D forums) so I'm quite familiar with the theories behind the labels. I know, for instance, that you don't properly call yourself a G, N, or S gamer, you describe your actual play as G-, N-, or S-focused.
I have played in multiple campaigns in the past, even the recent past, though I'm not really playing now, and only running one game infrequently.
I think about gaming and visit gaming forums every day I have internet access, but I go through patches of intense interest and patches of slackened interest. Right now, immediately after BlizzCon, I must admit I'm more jazzed about World of Warcraft: Cataclysm than anything for pen-and-paper gaming (though I did just order Geist: The Sin-Eaters, so that will probably excite me once it arrives).
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darjr
I crit!
I voted hardcore... but really I'm in the serous category. I don't ascribe to the letter of GNS. Or really the spirit of it. As I understand it and that is as far as I'd like to go with it.
I don't have any big issues with it.
I'll go a week or two without gaming. Though I just took over a one session twice a month RPGA event and I have a 'home' game. Not to mention that I'll got to cons, game days, and show up at other RPGA events and play and run one shots.
I'm more and more picky about what I'll buy.
I don't have any big issues with it.
I'll go a week or two without gaming. Though I just took over a one session twice a month RPGA event and I have a 'home' game. Not to mention that I'll got to cons, game days, and show up at other RPGA events and play and run one shots.
I'm more and more picky about what I'll buy.
Doug McCrae
Legend
You're 'Serious' category is pretty much a perfect fit for me. I own a lot of rpgs and play about once every two weeks currently but at times I've drifted away from rpging for a year or more, getting into WoW, M:tG or other hobbies.
I agree with Oryan77, people bitch way too much about polls having limited options. That's how polls work, for cock's sake, just choose whatever is closest.
I agree with Oryan77, people bitch way too much about polls having limited options. That's how polls work, for cock's sake, just choose whatever is closest.
I voted Hardcore, as I'm either that or Serious per the definitions. RPGs are my only real hobby (other than literature and board games), I have several hundred game books, I usually buy one or two RPG books a month (4E supplements and occasionally a book for a different game, it's an average). My apartment's dining room is currently our game room, although I'd like to have a separate room just for that if I could. I am currently running one game and playing in three (the one I'm running and two of the others average 2 weekends a month, the third is slightly over once a month). I don't want to play as much as possible (there are other things I like to do), but I do like to game regularly. I surf ENWorld and occasionally RPG.Net and WOTC. I went to the Forge and read a bit on GNS theory, but never assigned it to myself or any significance to it.
resistor
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I count myself as serious.
I've known several casual players: people who only played because their friends recruited them to their games, and only kept playing out of loyalty to those friends. If they owned books, it was because someone gave it to them. They didn't have a working knowledge of the rules. They never thought of about the game outside of pre-allocated game time, and game time itself was much lower on the priority queue than lots of other activities.
I've known several casual players: people who only played because their friends recruited them to their games, and only kept playing out of loyalty to those friends. If they owned books, it was because someone gave it to them. They didn't have a working knowledge of the rules. They never thought of about the game outside of pre-allocated game time, and game time itself was much lower on the priority queue than lots of other activities.
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