Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Shadowdancer]

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...

1. Five

2. Yes

3. Yes, one other person

4. Two males, three females

5. Near, no. Closest good gamestore is in Austin, an hour away.

6. We are currently running the Adventure Path modules, with lots of homebrew stuff to tie them together and for use between modules.

7. I'm 43, and I've been playing since 1980.

8. A friend.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

1.) 7, but usually there are one or two away at school.

2.) Yes. I am DMing a homebrew D&D campaign (on hiatus) and have a D20M campaign on deck in case we ever get some free time!

3.) Yes, my friend Dave runs a D20M campaign and ran the previous D&D campaign. We have a budding DM among the younger players as well.

4.) All male. *sniff*

5.) We barely have any near us at all. Both are kind of far away and only one hosts any games on the premises. Unfortunately none of us know the people there really well so I don't see us playing there any time soon. (I think all they play there is Star Wars anyway.)

6.) No modules. Dave's D&D campaign took place in a generic medieval world with Greyhawk deities. My D&D campaign is in a homebrew world with my own gods, locations, etc.
I've integrated (read "butchered and harvested") a few of the free D20M adventures from WoTC's site for use in my planned D20M campaign, but afterwards they're barely recognizable.

7.) I'll be 27 in November and I've been "playing" D&D since about 1986 (I was 10). Though most of those years were spent reading the books but not playing.

8.) Self taught, for better or worse. Which is one of the reasons my friends and I spent so many years reading D&D stuff but not playing. The older brother of one of our friends introduced us to it and then we never saw him again, so we didn't have an older person to run the games. At the time it was just three 10-year-olds, so no one could/wanted to run a session.

 

[hyulf]

1.) How many players in your group?

5 plus a DM. I have numerous other groups that I play games with once a month or infrequently.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes, about 75% of the time.

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

3 others DM.

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

All male.

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

We have two game stores near us. Quarterstaff Games in Burlington VT. A gamer's dream except that it can be dirty, unorganized and the owner is a little odd. The manager is polite and helpful though.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Modules for low levels (so the PCs can survive, then homebrew stuff.

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

I am 30 yo and have been playing since 1989

8.) Who taught you to play?

A friend ran me through the red box and then I self-taught the 2E D&D books.

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

 

[ashockney]

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...

7 or 8

Yes

All male

Yes, Comictown

Combination of modules/homebrewed into the FR

31, been playing for over 15 years

I was self-taught from the red box then found out I had neighbors who knew how to play

 

[Storminator]

Everyone, tell us about your games, please.

1.) How many players in your group?

Elves of Evermeet - 5 players
True Masters of Faerun - 8 players
Glimmergos - 3 players
Fomoss - 5 players
Numerous 2 player + DM games

Lots of players in more than one game, but still about almost 20 players.

2.) Do you DM?

About half the games

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

6 other DMs over 6+ games

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

4 ladies

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

Wizard's Tower in NH, it's great, and a lot of my gaming happens there.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Almost exclusively homebrew, but some pieces of mods as well

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

33yo, gaming for 28

8.) Who taught you to play?

all the grade school buds taught each other...

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

 

[Numion]

1.) How many players in your group?

5 + DM

2.) Do you DM?

Yes

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

One other DM

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

All male

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

Fantasiapelit, the only store in Helsinki

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

50-50

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

15 years playing, 25 old

8.) Who taught you to play?

A friend, who still occassionally plays with us.

 

[Gulla]

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?

1.) Counting them up it seems that all my gaming groups currently consists of 6 players. It normally varies from 4 to 7
2.) Yes. Currently only one group.
3.) Yes, but as I am in several groups, it's hard to say exactly how many. About 50% of any group DM in another group.
4.) At least 2 female players in each group.
5.) Got 2. Avalon and Dreamlands, but that won't tell anyone outside Norway anything, I guess
6.) One group uses mainly (or more precicely: only) modules, as that is the idea of the campaign: Test out modules. The other groups use mostly homebrew stuff.
7.) I've been playing for 14 years and I'm 33.
8.) My first GM (Prince Valiant, the storytelling Game). D&D I learne from the books (as I did most other games I playe(d)).

 

[Nightwasp]

Everyone, tell us about your games, please.

1.) How many players in your group?
7

2.) Do you DM?
Yes

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
No

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

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Collector's Connection
Robin Goodfellow

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
FR Campaign with mix of homebrew and modules.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I have been playing for 22 years, I am now 36

8.) Who taught you to play?
My mentor.

 

[LostWorldsMike]

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...

1) Players - it varies from 6 to 14, a typical week these days is 8 people.

2) Yes, I DM.

3) Yes, other people DM - we have a primary (not me), and two secondary (including me) DMs who run on a rotating basis (with the primary running 3 out of 5 weeks).

4) Male/Female - sadly, we only have one woman who plays.

5) Good game store - I'm biased. I'm co-owner of a game store (Lost Worlds in Macedon, New York - thank you very much), and I think it's a pretty good one.

6) Homebrew/Modules - almost exclusively homebrew stuff (prob'ly about 98%).

7) I've been playing for 25 years, and I'm 36.

8) I tought myself to play D&D, and a friend's father introduced me to Traveller back in the day.

Hope that helps!

 

[gcbrowni]

1. 4.

2. Yes.

3. No.

4. 4M, 1F

5. Yes, Boardroom

6. Modules heavily modiied.

7. I'm 33, and have been DM'ing for 23 years.

8. I tought myself.