Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Farganger]

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

1.) How many players in your group?
Fridays: 7
Saturdays: 8

2.) Do you DM?
Yes, Fridays.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
One of my Friday players, DMs the Saturday game.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
Fridays: 5/2
Saturdays: 5/3

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Yes, Harrington's Comics in Salem is great.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
I DM a campaign revolving around an elaborate homebrew city of my own devising, vaguely connected to Greyhawk.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
Hm. I am nearly 40 and have been playing (sporadically) since '75 or '76. I had a long hiatus after college during graduate school, law school and my first few years of inky-fingered scrivening.

8.) Who taught you to play?
I taught myself, I guess . . .

 

[Harker Wade]

Alrighty time to stop hiding!

1. 5 players and me.

2. Almost always. I've been running since high school. At least one game all the time, since college usually more then one. I usually take December off to recover from burn-out.

3. I ocassionaly get to play in a group out of town and that has one DM and 6 players.

4. None, currently. But I have had more girls then guys in a campaign.

5. Not in town but about 45 min. away and some really good ones up near Chicago. I occassionaly make the trek, cause my Mom lives up there.

6. Usually hombrew. But right now I'm worshipping at the idol of Monte Cook and have been running Banewarrens. Though I'm framing that with homebrew adventures.

7. I'll be 30 at the end of August and I've been playing since I was twelve.

8. I really can't remember. Which is strange.

 

[Malakye]

We play 2 campaigns, alternating every Monday. One has 6 players and a DM (me) and the other has 5 players and DM(friend who plays in my group, I play in his).

We currently have no females in either group, unfortunately.

We have a couple gamestores but they are mediocre at best.

Both campaigns are in the Forgotten Realms. Neither one of us is using modules right now. I have used them in the past but rarely.

I have been playing for about 13 years, I am 26.

A friend taught me to play. We didn't use books or anything and we took turns being DM. It was an awesome way to learn and I think how I learned is what influenced me the most on how I play. I really enjoy roleplaying and am often taunted by the other players because I tend to make "weaker" characters for the sake of story.

 

[Mark]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

In the face to face playtesting I do, currently five or six but not everyone makes it at the same time and I wish we could meet more often. I will have to do something about that.

2.) Do you DM?

Yup. And through the years, almost exclusively.

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

I believe they all do but not with our specific group.

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

All male at this time, and through many years of gaming that been true the vast majority of the time.

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

Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, IL.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Homebrew except for my RPGA DMing.

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

Since 1974 when I was 12. Played many wargames before then, and sometimes still do.

8.) Who taught you to play?

My best friend at the time, Gerald. Excellent DM and many hours of fun gaming with him, his brothers, and many other friends.

 

[Treebore]

1.) How many players in your group? 5

2.) Do you DM? Yes

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? Yes, 2.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? 1 female

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? Yes, Green Dragon

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff? About even.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you? 18 years and 37.

8.) Who taught you to play? Jim Shelheimer(sp?) in Virginia Beach, VA in 1985. We were in the Navy.

 

[Pazu]

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

Another lurker steps up to the microphone...

1.) How many players in your group?

Seven.

2.) Do you DM?

No, although I've been mulling over the idea lately.

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

Two of the others GM (one of whom is my lovely wife! ). We have two campaigns running on alternate weeks.

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

Five male, two female. Three couples.

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

Relatively nearby, we have...er, Games Unlimited, I think it's called, in Concord. When we lived in San Francisco, we used to go to Gamescape relatively often.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

All homebrew. I should note that neither of the games I'm currently in are actually D&D; both, coincidentally enough, are BESM Tristat. My wife runs a Sailor Moon game, while one of the other folks in the group runs a low-fantasy adventure called Roof of the World.

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

I've been playing RPGs since, oh, about 1978 or thereabouts, and I'm 33 now.

8.) Who taught you to play?

My best friend at the time and I sort of concurrently figured out the rules to AD&D (1e) as best we could, and ad-libbed what we couldn't understand. Worked pretty well most of the time.

-- Pazu

 

[seasong]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

Core group: 4 players, 1 GM.
Others: 4 others that I play with. A few others I don't play with, but who are connected to other members.

2.) Do you DM?

I GM .

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

There is one other GM for the extended group.

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

Core group: 2 girls, 2 boys, and me (boy).
Others: 1 girl, 3 boys.

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

Dragon's Lair. Very good.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Homebrew. I've never run a module.

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

20+ years. I'm 30 years old. I stopped playing Let's Pretend because I discovered dice.

8.) Who taught you to play?

Every player I've ever had in my group. Other than that, I taught myself.

 

[s/LaSH]

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

1.) How many players in your group?

Three. Me, a guy I knew at school, and a guy he knew at school and I knew at University.

2.) Do you DM?

Yup.

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

Nope.

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

MMM. Not... not to construe that as an actual sound. Quite the opposite. Don't read that aloud, it's not what it sounds like. Gibber gibber.

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

All I know is Graphic, it's where I gets me comics from. Not the biggest, but it works.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Homebrew. Haven't used a published module yet.

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

22 years of age, been playing for 12 of them.

8.) Who taught you to play?

I did. What is this, a trick question? It probably helps that the black Basic box set (with the red dragon on the front) came with a tutorial-type thing... something more games should do, really.

 

[Severion]

1.) How many players in your group?

5 players 1 DM

2.) Do you DM?

every time

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

no

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

2F/4M

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

Not realy

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Does dungeon count.

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

since '85/since '71

8.) Who taught you to play?

Me

 

[MattyHelms]

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.) Currently there's eight players. We'll be losing two in September (not to a planned ritual murder or anything; they're moving). I usually play with much less.
2.) I'm not running anything right now. I usually only DM about half the time
3.) Just one DM right now - we're dedicated to our Buffy campaign.
4.) 5 men/ 3 women
5.) GAMES PLUS!!!!!
6.) All homebrew for the Buffy. I largely do homebrew 'cause I'm so cheap. NO, I MEAN CREATIVE, yes, creative.
7.) Been playing since 1981. I'm 32 bitter, haggard years old, so that's over half my life sitting around a room pretending to be a halfling rogue or something.
8.) Not a "who", but I learned by reading the D&D Basic book. I then ran into people who converted their characters into Marvel Super Heroes characters (after cleaning out all the planes of Hell) and granted their wish spells to female superheroes in exchange for, umm, "favors." It took me a while to find better people to game with.

Later,
Matt