mkletch
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Mark said: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?
Kind of tough to answer. Actually playing in two groups right now. I'll answer for each based on when we play.
1. Seven in the Sunday group, though one is sort of fading out right now. On Saturdays, we have five, though one is only there about 40% of the time. We may be adding two more to the Saturday group soon.
2. Yes, I DM.
3. Of our seven people on Sundays, four are experienced DMs and another is just starting out his inaugural campaign. On Saturdays, we have two DMs.
4. 5 guys, 2 gals on Sundays (including two couples). 3 guys, 2 gals on Saturdays (including two couples). If we expand the Saturday group, it will be another couple.
5. Yes, the Game Preserve, with four or five locations in central Indiana. Good selection, good space in the back for games. Don't actually play there though. Too many people in/out for a session or two, and hard to build a campaign that way.
6. Depends on who is DMing. I use mostly homebrew, as do several of the other DMs. My wife, OTOH, has a gift for tying together disparate modules from various companies into a seamless campaign. We've got a good balance.
7. I am nearly 31 (about a month), and have been playing since my 9th birthday, so make that basically 22 years. My wife has only been playing for about 2.5 years. Our groups have a good spread like this, old 1st-editioners or red-boxers, and others who started with 3E. We even have one that stopped playing in the bad old days when 2E got really fractured. He just started up after about 9 years in mothballs.
8. I was taught by a friend's older brother, who had been gaming for 4-5 years at the time. Also picked up Avalon Hill type games, too, and still play those when time/schedules allow.
-Fletch!