Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Fenes 2]

1.) How many players in your group?

3 players + 1 DM each in my 2 D&D groups.

2.) Do you DM?

Almost always in one group, roughly 50-75% of the time in the other.

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

2 players have run adventures in one group, in the other group there is a co-DM.

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

Both groups only have male players.

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

Not anymore. I order online.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Only homebrew. I ran a free adventure from WotC once, but that is it for my DMing career.

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

I have been playing since 1992, and I am 29 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?

A friend taught me the basics of AD&D 2E.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

1.) How many players in your group?
3

2.) Do you DM?
yes.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
Everyone in the group is a good DM. We take turns, rotating every few months.

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

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Temple Games, run by cover artist Henry Higginbotham (check your PHB...)

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

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
Since 1984. I am now 28.

8.) Who taught you to play?
Dear old dad.

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

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.) 4

2) Yes

3) No

4) All male

5) Yes a great one - Goblin Gate.

6) Mostly homebrew - but just ran RttToEE

7) I've been playing for 15 years and I'm 24 years old

8) Myself - later my older cousin gave me some tips.

-Zarrock

 

[Flyspeck23]

1.) 5 to 8 (DM included)

2.) Yes.

3.) At the moment: no. But two showed interest.

4.) Minimum (our most constant group): 3 m / 2 f
At maximum: 5 m / 3 f

5.) No, sadly.

6.) Homebrew (90+ %)

7.) Roleplaying: for 15-16 years. I'm 29.

8.) Myself (other systems, then 2e)


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[Clint]

1.) How many players in your group?

Two: EN board member SnowDog and another player. Lean times. Two players is the bare minimum, and sometimes it feels pretty thin. But interviewing random players hasn't worked out yet; we've had pretty lousy experiences with posting information and trying to find a new random player. The last guy was a guy with a family (and so I think: "mature") who showed up and then lied on his important rolls in plain view. Sigh. He didn't work out. SnowDog and I could write a long essay on this stuff.

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

SnowDog and I take turns running campaigns. Right now, I'm enjoying playing in his game.

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

All men here. I keep trying to bring my girlfriend into it, because she'd like it, but we'd have to play something simpler like Spycraft or BESM to get over the "encyclopedia of rules" issue. SnowDog's wife used to like to play, but also doesn't enjoy a huge amount of rules, and is the worst dieroller I've ever ever ever seen.

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

Yup: Danger Planet on Spruce Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Nice people, decent selection. They don't get RPG books as frequently as I'd like, and they don't always have everything I want, so I turn to the internet about half the time.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Both. Right now, SnowDog's running a straight Banewarrens campaign, and he's mentioned that he has a campaign log on Monte's boards. Our last campaign, which I ran, had a string of looted prepackaged modules in the frame of a homebrew world. Modules are nice because if they're quality, a prepackaged game has less prep time than homebrew.

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

I'm twenty-seven and I've been playing on and off since nine years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?

I taught myself when my mother bought me the old Red Box Basic set for my birthday. She wasn't interested in learning anything about it; she just wanted me to read more. It worked.

(edit: italic questions)

 

[Sketchpad]

Everyone, tell us about your games, please.
1.) How many players in your group?

My current group has 8 members.

2.) Do you DM?

Yup. In fact, I'm the main DM/GM.

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

There are 2 others who GM, but only when I need a break (which is roughly two months a year).

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

6:2 ATM ... though I've had groups that were dominantly female before

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

Yup ... Fantastic Planet.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Homebrew all the way. I use some printed material to supplement my campaign worlds.

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

22 Years ... Old enough

8.) Who taught you to play?

Friends of mine in school. They asked if I'd like to play some RPGs, I said "what's that?" and they showed me

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

Consider it done

 

[FungiMuncher]

1.) How many players in your group?
I'm in two groups:
Saturday: 7 people
Sunday: 8 people

2.) Do you DM?
Sat: rarely
Sun: almost always

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
Sat: Most of us take turns DMing.
Sun: One other player has another group in which he is DM.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
Sat: All male, though there were some female friends in years past.
Sun: Only one regular player is female, though we had a daughter of another player in for a few sessions.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
Yes, Ravenstone Games, the Soldiery, and the Guardtower.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?
Sat: Depends on the GM, it's a definite mixture.
Sun: My campaign is hombrew, with an occasional droped-in generic module.

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I've been playing for about 23 years (since a freshman in high school). I'm now 38 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?
The first game I ever played in I was the DM! I taught myself, but only became reasonably good at it when I joined another group.

Edit:
9. What are you playing at the moment?
Sat: Rifts (I'd like to start an XCrawl campaign)
Sun: D&D, and we're switching to 3.5 this week! (I better get to reading those new rules!)

 

[thasic]

1) I play with a total of six people.

2) I am the lucky DM of the present campaign.

3)Two other members DM campaigns of there own from time to time. We tried a shared world campaign where several people DM the same campaign several times.

4)Five men and one woman.

5)Yea, Dream Wizards. and the internet of course.

6)I use printed material to get my juices flowing when making up my adventures.

7) We have been playing for 25 years. We are all around 40 years old.

8) I was taught to play by the good folks at TSR way back when 3E was just D&D.

 

[dpmcalister]

1.) How many players in your group? 12, but we normally split into 2 different groups

2.) Do you DM? Yes

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? Yes, roughly all (although some have only just started out as DMs)

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

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? The next town, Worcester, has Format. A local, independent that also sells board games, CCGs, and computers games.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff? A mixture of both - depends on the DM

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you? Playing for 19 years and I'm 32

8.) Who taught you to play? I did

 

[scarymonkey]

1 - seven

2 - Sometimes

3 - Yes, three people have dm'ed

4 - All male

5 - No

6 - Both

7 - I've played for 22 years and I'm 37

8 - The old blue book edition of D&D