Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Rossco999]

1.) How many players in your group?

umm, 7 *pokes Gunslinger and AeronBlaze*

2.) Do you DM?

Used to, but not anymore...bad things happen when I dm

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

*points at AeronBlaze* him! it's his fault! he's the dm!

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

All male

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

Scenario Game and Hobby. it's pretty good, but the game room is packed with W40kers sometimes.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

FR setting hombrew

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

2 years next week (crap, has it been that long already?!). 17 y/o at the moment

8.) Who taught you to play?

I did...if you can call it teaching

 

[Southern Oracle]

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

1.) How many players in your group?
Six, counting myself.

2.) Do you DM?
Yes.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
No. One of the players has not played since 1E, one played 2E but didn't try 3E until my campaign, and one never played D&D before my campaign. My wife and one other player are experienced with 3E, but both enjoy playing more than DMing.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
One female (my wife) and five males.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Nord's Games has a decent selection but it's very tiny, as it's in the mall. There's nowhere to even consider gaming, let alone stand two abreast to look at things.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
Always modules (tweaked of course for the individual campaign).

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I am 32 (33 next month) and I've been playing since I was 12...going on 21 years.

8.) Who taught you to play?
A friend bought the original Basic edition boxed set but was too lazy to read everything in it...I read it and have been DMing ever since.

 

[Imhotepthewise]

1.) How many players in your group?

Currently 1. I DM for my 16 year old son. He prefers SWRPG.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes. I am too much of a control freak to be a player all the time.

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

My son does a great job. He has learned well.

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

Currently none. My wife has NO INTEREST and my 12 year old daughter prefers M:TG.

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

The Citadel in Groton CT and Sarge's Comic's in New London CT. Others are around but are not as good as these two.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

I have several "adventures" prepped for pick up games. I have homebrewed for years. The prepped adventures include Citadel by the Sea from an old Dragon mag, the Return to Keep on the Borderlands, and the Wandering Trees also from an old Dragon mag. I have a campaign roughed out from SKR's Against the Giants anniversary module.

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

25 years. I am 42 years old. Also a Grognard.

8.) Who taught you to play?

Mark Mehlich at Dam Neck, Virginia Navy Base. We originally used the white box and blue book. Mark had learned from his older brothers in North Carolina and had a 7th level cleric (everyone go "Oooooooooo!"). We had a group of eight or more most weekends. I remember each hardcover coming out. We were all sailors far from home and spent many a weekend in one of the base lounges fighting drow, giants, and other ilk. We have all lost track of each other, I hope they still play.

 

[Joshua Randall]

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

1.) How many players in your group?
One DM (me), one regular player, and one infrequent player.

2.) Do you DM?
Yes.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
No. I have complete power. Muuhahahah!

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

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
I usually shop online, or at a Gamekeeper in a nearby suburb.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
Started with some modules and WotC free adventures (from the website) but am now shifting over to homebrew.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I am 30 and I have been playing off-and-on for 20 years. Yikes!

8.) Who taught you to play?
My best friend, when I was a naive 10-year-old. The bastard.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

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

Tell us about your games, please.

1.) How many players in your group?
- 3 plus the DM. We have a fourth who's in africa at the moment on his honeymoon (poor sense of priorities).

2.) Do you DM?
- Not this go-around, but I have DM'd more than played in the past.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
- We have one DM, with some collaboration from friends not part of the group, who share ideas with our DM.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
- All male, sadly. We're working on wives and S/O's to join, but it'll take time.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
- Yep. L.A. Mood Comics in London, Ontario. They put the "F" in FLGS.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
- Entirely homebrew, though we're always open to steal good concepts and try to work them into something we can use.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
- Playing since about 1979-1980, now 32 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?
- Originally a school friend introduced me to the game (D&D Basic at that point), but self-taught everything since then.

 

[guedo79]

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

1.) How many players in your group? 6 now

2.) Do you DM? not at the moment. We've got a new DM

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? Half our group DMs at one point or another. Myself(Planescape), Alex (FR), and Barney (Gurps, Al-Qadim)

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? 4 Male, 2 Female

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? There is a store but I wouldn't suggest it.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff? At the moment Modules. But usually a good mix of the two

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you? I've been playing on and off for 7 years. I'm 23.

8.) Who taught you to play? My best friend tought me how to play. I played one game and was told we had too many players. So I was made a DM.

 

[Craer]

1.) How many players in your group?

Six. Five and a DM.

2.) Do you DM?

I like to, but I'm really bad at it, so rarely.

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

Obviously there's one guy who runs the majority of the time, but none of the others run regularly. One guy has his own game.

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

100% male, saddly. We could use a female touch.

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

Brave New Worlds, my Favorite Local Gaming Store. Excellent place, and I know the clerks there by name.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

All homebrew.

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

I've been playing ever since 3rd edition came out. I'm 16.

8.) Who taught you to play?

I taught myself, actually. To the point where I would get yelled at for studying my core rulebooks harder than my school textbooks.

-Craer

 

[PowerWordDumb]

And that's My Not Quite As Brief As I Had Originally Planned History With Gaming.

It was fascinating though, Djeta... My fiancee always gives me a funny look when I'm about to head off gaming, that I've come to associate with a mixture of interest and fear. I've invited her several times in the past to come along and see what it's all about (as it's rather difficult to just describe cold to someone who doesn't know), but she's always shrugged that off and claimed she's not really that interested.

Now I'm wondering just what experiences she's had with creepy people or bigots that may have turned her off the hobby without ever trying it. Granted I was a really geeky kid, so the strangeness that some gamers are famous for never bothered me, but perhaps that was part of what turned her off. I should say that your story of growing disenchantment with the roleplayers you were exposed to was almost exactly the inverse of my experience growing up. Typically it was the people into fashion, music, and "being cool" who were the most judgemental, while the gaming crowd was always very accepting and open-minded. It's sad you had the experiences you did which kept you away from a fun hobby and interesting people.

I'm really interested now to go home and have a conversation about this, because I know she loves the same kind of epic fantasy movies as I do, she's read LOTR several times, and she's got a wonderful imagination so I know she's got the basic tools to be a good roleplayer. Perhaps it's just a collection of misperceptions that's keeping her from enjoying another part of my life with me.

Something to think about, anyways.

 

[Orias]

Originally posted by Mark
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) Right now, 7 people total.
2) Not in this game, although I am going to be DMing a game soon
3) Another has DMed before.
4) 1/7th
5) We have 6 comic book shops in town.
6) It's FR, but the DM homebrewed the story
7) This game has been going for over 1 year, I have been playing for around 12 years.
8) My uncle & cousins.

 

[Cybern]

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) between 2 - 4
2) Yes, when it's my turn
3) Yes, almost all players get their turns DMing, but it is not a rotation
4) My girlfriend is the only girl in, and she DMs more often than the others
5) Yes! L'Imaginaire (Quebec City)
6) Never played a module, are they good?
7) Been playin' for 13 years, and I'm 24
8) My uncle, who just died a month ago

That's about it