Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[MacMathan]

1.) How many players in your group?

Fluctuates between 4 and 8

2.) Do you DM?

Occasionally.

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

Yes, we have 4 different DMs that rotate within one game world.

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

All male as of late.

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

We have a WOTC store nearby.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Mainly Homebrew

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

20 years of play time. I am 30 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?

My first gaming group kind of taught each other in the 4th grade.

 

[Grim]

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

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

The cat's away (never mind those few moderators who happen to still be here) and the rest of us can now play!

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...

Game One: The College Game

1. 6 or 7. One guy is consistantly inconsistant.
2. No, my friend does
3. Yes. 1 guy
4. 1 male DM, 5 male players, 1 female player, one guy who never shows
5. Yes, a local gamestore called Gamescape
6. Homebrew mostly, a world rebuilding after a highly magical society and a highly technological society brought each other down.
7. 3 years, 17
8. Me and my friend borrowed the 2e core books from the library, and then taught ourselves 3e when it came out.

Game Two: My game

1. 4 and a DM
2. I DM
3. Yes, me and me alone
4. 1 Male DM, 3 male players, one female player
5. Same
6. A homebrew world, but we started with Piratecat's excelent "Of Sound Mind" and have expanded from there.
7. Same
8. Same

 

[DanMcS]

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

1.) How many players in your group?
6 in one, 3 to 5 in the other depending on the night, we've had 8 people on and off.

2.) Do you DM?
The second game, we take it in turns, I'm currently running a game.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
I play in the first game, we have a steady DM there. The second game, me and another guy have traded off, him mostly though.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
One woman in the first game, none in the other.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
There are a plethora of good game stores in columbus, it's really amazing. The nearest to me is the Guardtower.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
Almost exclusively homebrew stuff.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
Mmm, I started when I was 8 I think, I'm 24 now, so 16 years.

8.) Who taught you to play?
A friend of mine at school.

 

[Cyrik Skylark]

1.) How many players in your group?
Well, that depends... in the one group, we sometimes get as high as.... eight players, though it's usually closer to four or five. In the second group, we average about four players.

2.) Do you DM?
Not currently, but I have before, and I hope to soon. Trying to start up a game or two.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
Well, let's see... at least three or four DM's in the group, counting me.

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 good ones. There's the requisite WotC outlets (this is Seattle, after all), and then there's Gary's Games a short bus ride away, American Hobbies a slightly longer bus ride away, and one supposedly great store down in Burien. Never been there, so I can't say.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
The two games I'm in now seem to be mostly modules, but I use homebrew when I DM.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
Started when I was nine, so eleven years now. I'm 20.

8.) Who taught you to play
A friend of mine, he had a board game-ish version of the basic D&D rules (Dragon Quest, I believe it was called,) and from there we branched out into 1st edition, 2nd edition, Rifts, and a couple other game systems.

9) What are you playing at the moment?
Well, in the Forgotten Realms campaign I'm playing a very messed-up elven cleric... of Uthgar. Odd concept, yes. He was a port of a character I'd made for an earlier campaign, where he was originally a cleric of Kord. I had all of half an hour to make a level 10 character, so I went the easy route and resurrected the great axe-wielding elf.
The other game is an alternate-earth homebrew world. I play a speed-oriented spiked chain-wielding psychic warrior in that game. We like to aggravate the DM by calling the places by their real-world names, rather than the in-game names - for example:
"Where's the gnome?"
"He's on vacation in Lysia."
"Oh, you mean France?"
"No, there is no France."
"Alright, so he's taking a vacation in his French villa."
"There is no France!"
"Okay, so he's taking a vacation in southern Not-France, in his Not-French villa."
"That's better."

 

[JoeGKushner]

My games are on hold for the summer for the most part right now. I'll probably be sneaking up to Games Plus to check out their open game on Saturday or something one of these days.

Normally however, I have the following:

Dave: Guy there to enjoy the game. Not real serious about the role playing or tactical aspect of it, just kinda digs it.

Scott: Same as above.

Tom: Almost the same as above but more into it. Owns a fair number of books but doesn't keep them 'power' referenced so that he can whip up the most powerful x,y or z like others. Enjoys the necromancer's massive resurgance in 3rd ed via 3rd party support.

Mike: Loves the min-maxing aspect of it but is a good role player and has often sacrificed many of those min-maxing traits for good RPing. However, his RPing also over rides the 'game' aspect of it like leaving party members to die as his character wanders around or something innane.

Angel: Mini-Maxer. Good role player, plays in game but will not sacrifice the power aspects. Owns almost as many books as I do with more focus on what will help his character at the time. Plans out his characters from 1st-20th level meticilously and revises as new material becomes available.

Joe (me): Almost as bad as Angel with the mini-maxer but truly dislike moving too far beyond the core books for material as when I play, I like to keep it simple. Of the three PC's I have now, two don't use just core rules, taking feats from the Swashbuckler Handbook or spells from source X, Y, Z. Have broad ideas of what I want my characters to be like and adjust them as they advance in level.

GMing is rotated via me, Angel and Tom. We generally tend to go with point buy (I use 32, they both user 42), and fixed hit points per level. I've posted my house rules a while ago, Angel has quite a few different ones, Tom has none.

Angel and I GM the Scarred Lands, not quite a shared campaign but we'll give each other's campaign a 'wink' every now and again. Tom DMs the FR setting.

I and Tom use a mix of modules and freebased stuff.

Angel almost uses 100% freebase stuff, picking up on what the characters are doing, backgrounds, motivations, etc... Bad news that is he often has to push story elements into the game to get it moving.

Our main store is Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, but many of us have used Amazon.com and other online vendors. In addition, the Gamers Paradise in the Century has 50% off sales a lot of times and I've built up quite a few Mongoose books that way.

I'm 31, going on 32 this year. I've been playing since grade school, about 6th grade, so what is that, almost 15-16 years? Started with Marvel Super Heroes, before the Saga stuff with the old FASERIP stats (Fighting, Agility, etc...) and one of my friends, one Fritz, saw me with these books and said, "Dude, I'll show you a real game." In which, because he only had d6's, used a mix of Role Aids, Basic D&D and AD&D 1st ed, to have me killed by Orcus and Asmodeus. I was hooked.

Enjoying 3.5. Feel that WoTC is being stupid by not updating and creating a seperate line of "Role Aids" material that could cover the less profitible, but still cool aspects of the game like Demons, Sentinels, Blood & Steel, etc...

 

[William Ronald]

Mark,

Good idea for a poll. My answers, as usual, may be complicated.




1.) How many players in your group?
A session in our group can run from four to twelve players.


2.) Do you DM?
I occassionally DM, but I find myself doing a lot of campaign background work. My best friend is our primary DM. I have DMed at a few EN World Chicago Gamedays.


3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
We have had four people, other than myself, DM on different occassions. My best friend is our primary DM.


4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
Currently, we have one female player but our group had up to four in the past.


5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
I get around and consider a half hour drive to be a short trip. There is Gamers Paradise in Chicago Ridge, Hobbymodels U.S.A. in Oak Park, and Game Kingdom in Bridgeport, near my sister's house. The last store sells RPGs and comics.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Mostly homebrew, but we do recycle modules. Some of the first edition adventures have been altered and reused several times.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I am 38 years old and I have been playing since 1980.


8.) Who taught you to play?
Members of a D&D club in high school. I no longer play with anyone from the original group, but I met my best friend and DM because of the club.

 

[Majin Cthulhu]

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) 5 total
2) 90 % of the time, but right now we are playing Exalted and I'm not GMing
3) Yes, 3 of them do besides me, but very rarely.
4) 100% male
5) Yes, the Warroom in Norcross, GA.
6) I mostly do homebrew with a few modules thrown in here and there.
7) I'm 20 and I've been playing for 13 of those years.
8) I taught myself pretty much every game I've played.

Woohoo, another post for me... now back to lurking.

 

[Pbartender]

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

1. How many players in your group?
   If everyone shows up... 5 players and a GM.
   
2. Do you DM?
   Yes.
   
3. Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
   Yes. Everyone but one has DMed at one time or another. Three of us DM regularly.
   
4. What's the Male/Female composition of the group? Four male, two female.
   
5. Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
   There are two Gamer's Paradises in nearby malls, and Games Plus isn't too far away.
   
6. Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
   A little of both. I personally tend toward homebrewed worlds, with heavily modified modules for adventures.
   
7. How long have you been playing and how old are you?
   I just turned 27. I've been playing for about 18 years.
   
8. Who taught you to play?
   My big brother.

 

[johnsemlak]

I have two games running, one offline and one online

In my offline game, I'm a player. There are now 5 regular players in our group, plus the DM. We have 2 gals and 4 guys.

The DM uses homebrew stuff, but usings the FRCS and all the supplements. We have OK gamestores in the city. Mostly WotC stuff though.

I'm 31 and probably the oldest. Most of the members are in their mid-20s.

I thought myself to play years ago, don't remember exactly when, I think I was in 4th grade.

I also DM an online game. There are 6 participants, but we obviously don't know each other that well. I'm using a module. I assume we're all male but who knows?

 

[Zerth]

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

A lurker from Finland here...

1) I currently play in two groups. One has four players and the other the same four plus three others. Recently I've picked up three games here on the EN boards.

2) Yes, but it's been years since I last DMed.

3) We have three exellent DMs in our group. I'm very lucky because I prefer playing.

4) Currently, there's one female, who plays in both our groups. The bigger group used to be nine players and those two, that did quit were both female.

5) Not many gamestores that sell RPG stuff in Finland, and the prices are very high. But there's one in my town and it's run by people I've played with.

6) Always homebrew in my current groups.

7) I played two years when I was 15-17 years old. Then I didn't play at all for four years except computer RPG's, but they don't really count. I picked up gaming again in university and have been a active gamer ever since. I've played about 8 years total.

8) Some friends of mine introduced me to board RPGing, when I was 15.

EDIT: Forgot to mention my age, 28.