Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Mark]

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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[randomling]

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

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

1.) How many players in your group?

*counts* Four, plus DM.

2.) Do you DM?

I have done, not frequently though.

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

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

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

I'm the only woman.

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

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?

Good mix, I think.

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

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

8.) Who taught you to play?

Me! And my gaming group.

There. Satisfied?

 

[Kweezil]

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?

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

2.) Do you DM?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

8.) Who taught you to play?

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?

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

 

[GnomeWorks]

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

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

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?

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?

The Psionicle, yes. All the others, no.

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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

8.) Who taught you to play?

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

 

[tburdett]

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.

 

[Angcuru]

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.

 

[am181d]

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.

 

[heldenhammer]

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, 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?

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.

 

[Belphanior]

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.)

 

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

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

 

[Emiricol]

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, 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?

1.) 6
2.) Yes
3.) No
4.) 100% male
5.) No
6.) Homebrew mostly
7.) Almost 20 years, since I was 11
8.) Me!

 

[WanderingMonster]

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

Originally posted by Mark
1.) How many players in your group?

I wish I could quote a regular number, but let's say that I have a pool of eight, but usually end up with an average of five. That includes myself.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes. Yes, I do.

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

We've got one other DM in the group so far. I would say that He DMs maybe 10-20% of the time. Mostly it's me.

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

Three of the Pool of Eight are female. The rest--I believe--are male.

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

No, unfortunately. I live in a rural area and no such thing exists in these here parts. There was a decent shop in the previous city I lived, and I try to go there whenever I get to go back.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

95% homebrew. This is good or bad depending on how much prep I've done. I tend to wing it, so modules actually don't end up being much of a time saver for me. You actually have to read them first, you know?

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

I've been playing since 1978-ish. I'm going to be 33 (on Monday). This really is the thing I'd rather be doing than almost anything else.

8.) Who taught you to play?

We taught ourselves. Needless to say, we played incorrectly for many many years, but we had fun. I actually bothered to learn the rules fairly late in life, with the advent of 2e.

I should bitterly mention that I was going to go to GenCon until we decided we couldn't afford the trip. Oh well. I got better.

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

There are 4 regulars in my group, with about two or three more that show up every now and then.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes, but currently my campaign is on hiatus. My campaign will continue on sometime in mid-August.

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

We have about four other DMs in our group. The active DM right now is running a Spycraft game, another DM is running a Star Wars d20 game, another one is running a D&D game, and the other one wants to run a D&D/Spycraft/d20 Modern hybrid.

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

There are no females in our regular group. However, there are a couple of females that occasionally game with us, but not often. The last time I can recall playing with a female, in RPGs, was back in December of last year.

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

There are three gaming stores in my town, but I go to the best one: Mad Hatter's House of Games!

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Everyone runs homebrew. I don't know anyone around here who has run a module.

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

I am 17 years old and I've been playing since 1999.

8.) Who taught you to play?

Two guys: A guy named Steven, who DMed me through my first AD&D adventure, and Chris, who shoplifted all of the AD&D books at Hastings and allowed me to learn the mechanics. This was a long time ago, and his ways have changed now.

Cheers!

Edit: Corrected grammar and background info. Peace!

 

[Tuerny]

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

Tell us about your games, please.

1.) How many players in your group?

There are currently five players in our group. We just lost one and gained another.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes, I am the DM of my group.

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

Two other people in the group our DMs, but they haven't DMed for this group.

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

Right now there are two girls and four guys. Until the recent player loss (cause she didn't have time) there was Three girls and three guys.

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

Oh, we do. Its called Sci-Fi City and its huuuuge. Its great. It was one of the stores who got their 3.5 books in early (thought I didn't take advantage of them.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Homebrew stuff. Haven't run any modules for the current game yet considering the fact that most modules wouldn't suit the setting.

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

11 years and I am 24.

8.) Who taught you to play?

I taught myself.

 

[Olive]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

5 players one DM

2.) Do you DM?

Yes.

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

One other also DMs.

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

4 men, 2 women

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

Yes, Mind Games.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Almost entirely homebrew adventures with the very ocassional dungeon mag one.

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

I'm 27 and I've been playing on and off and in one form or another since I was about 9. Only been playing really regularly in the last 6 years tho.

8.) Who taught you to play?

A friends older brother.

 

[dave_o]

1.) How many players in your group?
In my face-to-face group, around three, hopefully I'll soon be part of Rune's face-to-face. My online group (Fenrir's Pack) has six members.

2.) Do you DM?
Yeah, I play too, though. Though rarely.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
Everyone sort of DMs their own pets. But mostly, it switches between myself, Kenny, and Mikey.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
Two girls, four guys. One of those girls is my girl.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
It's decent, made good by the fact I know the owner well. It's called The Rusty Scabbard, more commonly, Rusty's.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
HOMEBREW!!1

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I've been playing for eight years, and I'm 17.

8.) Who taught you to play?
Myself.

 

[krbrunn]

Longtime lurker, first time poster Anyway, onto the good stuff.

1.) How many players in your group?
From a pool of 7, usually about 5 play.

2.) Do you DM?
Yup

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
One other does, and one other one wants to give it a try soon.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
5 dudes, one gal, and her younger brother.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Indeed, High Octane Comics in Kamloops BC, Canada.
Just recently it changed owners, and the store has improved 1000% where before I wouldn't go in there at all, to now when the owners know my name and know what i like. If you're ever in Kamloops, be sure to check them out.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
100% my own creations, the only stuff I use out of the books are the rules.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
Since grade 7, so.... 13 years. I am 25 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?
A school friend named Graham. We used to play at lunch time, it was fun stuff.

Edit: Forgot my age

 

[MerricB]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

I have two groups.
Friday: 1 DM + 3 players
Sunday: 1 DM + 4 players.

The only overlap is the DM.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes. I'm the DM of both groups.

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

Yes. Three of them.

Steven (in the Friday group) DMs from time to time; esp. as a co-DM that allows me to play.

Greg and Gofa in the Sunday group DM, but not in my campaigns.

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

Friday: 1 woman, 3 men.
Sunday: 1 woman, 4 men.

I'll point out that the Friday female player is my 10-year old apprentice, Grace, who I introduced to the game this year... and loves it!

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

Yes. "The Games Cove", in Ballarat. Also, "Card Crazy" is where I play CCGs; but the Games Cove is where I buy my D&D material. It doesn't have much d20 system products, alas... the market isn't that big, though it does get some in on request.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

A combination. Currently, both campaigns are using adventures of my creation. I use many modules (primarily from Dungeon magazine or converted from my large collection of 1E modules) as well, because I run out of time to be continually creative!

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

I've been playing 21 years, and I'm 30 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?

Mainly self-taught, although I've got a lot better from observing other DMs and reading lots of books.

Mark - you'd better reply to this thread yourself!

Cheers!

 

[yangnome]

1.) How many players in your group?
Me +6

2.) Do you DM?
Yes

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
Other people have DMed in the past, but not with this group, one is getting ready to start a side campaign though

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

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
A couple stores in the area

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
This campaign is all homebrew, though I am not adverse to using modules. www.yangnome.com/rpg/kerendau/kerendau.html

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
about 10 yrs, I am 28.

8.) Who taught you to play?
Friends

 

[Hjorimir]

1.) How many players in your group?

Seven players (with another who wants to join in the next campaign I start).


2.) Do you DM?

Yub.


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

Yes, ForceUser and Vymair both DM.


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

One female (my wife). I'm sure you all can figure out what gender the others are.


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

Game Towne
3954 Harney Street
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 291-1666


6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

All homebrew adventures set on Greyhawk.


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

Started playing really when I was around 9 or 10 (though not really understanding anything about what role-playing was until around 13 (in Junior High School). I am 33 years old.


8.) Who taught you to play?

My older brother (under threat of paternal wrath) was forced to allow me to play with him and his friends. Now, years later, I DM him as part of my group. I like to think it paid off for him and I really love watching his enjoyment from my game. Bro...thank you for everything.