Everyone, Tell us about your games, please!

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

• 1.) How many players in your group?
  • Game 1, D&D: 5
  • Game 2, D&D 1
  • Game 3, D&D 3
  • Game 4, Year of the Zombie 5
• 2.) Do you DM?
  • Game 1, D&D: Yes
  • Game 2, D&D Yes
  • Game 3, D&D Yes
  • Game 4, Year of the Zombie Yes
• 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
  • Game 1, D&D: Yes, 1
  • Game 2, D&D: No
  • Game 3, D&D: NO
  • Game 4, Year of the Zombie: No
• 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
  • Game 1, D&D: 4m/2f
  • Game 2, D&D: 1m/1f
  • Game 3, D&D 1m/3f
  • Game 4, Year of the Zombie 3m/3f
• 5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? Yes. Rogue Games
  
• 6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff? Homebrew, all of them.
  
• 7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you? Over 35 years old and playing over 20 years
  
• 8.) Who taught you to play? Myself

 

[Kestrel]

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...




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1) 7 + GM
2) Yes
3) Yes, 6 out of the 7 also run games
4) All male
5) No, it closed about a year ago.
6) Homebrew with occasional adventures from Dungeon Mag.
7) About 20 years. 33
8) Self

For the game I play in
1) 6 + GM
2) GM plays in my game.
3) 2 out of 7
4) 4 male, 3 female
5) Same
6) He homebrews, with some stealing from mods

 

[Nebulous]

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. 6 usually. Guys usually, although a recent 1-off had 3 women, 2 newbies.

2. 2 people DM, although i prefer it over playing. I don't actually get to DM enough.

3. as above

4. as above

5. Cerebral hobbies and it is COOL

6. I used to do solely homebrew, i now sort of prefer modified modules. Big time saver.

7. Started around 10 or so with Endless Quest books in eary 1980's (does that count?) Played on and off over the years. i'm 33 now.

8. I was pretty much self taught until a gaming group in high school when i was able to peruse all those books i couldn't afford before.

EDIT: There are A LOT of thirty-something gamers that frequent this board. Wow.

 

[doghead]

1.) How many players in your group?

Thousands. I don't have a ftf group, and only play pbp at the moment. Usually there are 4-8 players in each game.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes.

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

Yes. All the time.

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

No idea.

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

Not sure. Havn't been to a gamestore in years.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

I used to do all my own adventures, but recently I have been using more modules. Time is a big factor. And some of my own stuff was, quite frankly, cra ... er, not so good. I started to look at modules to see how other people were doing it.

In the games I run, the settings have all been homebrewed ones. I recently bought two published settings, but haven't used either.

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

20 years, since I was about 16.

8.) Who taught you to play?

A friend at school originally. But I am still learning, especially when it comes to running a game.

thotd

 

[talien]

1.) How many players in your group? 10, as both DMs have been players at any one point in time.

2.) Do you DM? Yep.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? 1 other DM.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? 2 females, 8 males.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it? No. This is a crying, horrible shame. The best I had was the WOTC store. That was like a million years ago.

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff? Modules. I horribly slice and dice them though. For example, I've been splicing Tatters of the King (Cthulhu conversion to d20), Black Sails Over Freeport (d20 Freeport) and Living Arcanis adventures (d20 Arcanis).

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you? ugh. A long time. Since I was in fourth grade. Let's leave it at over 20 years.

8.) Who taught you to play? My mom, believe it or not. She bought the game as a recommendation from one of those school programs to promote creativity.

 

[VirgilCaine]

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 or six right now, but once summer ends, I'll get two or three of them back that I lost.
2 Yes.
3 We have a couple aspiring DMs, one guy I'd really like to see DM because he's brilliant, but no one DMs yet except me.
4 All male right now.
5 I wouldn't know, I don't buy D&D stuff much.
6 Modules, mostly old stuff.
7 23 years old, playing six years, but only regularly for the last nine months or so.
8 Myself.

 

[The Shaman]

1.) There are five gamers (four players plus the GM) in our d20 Modern game.

2.) I am the game master.

3.) I know that others in the group are game masters, but we don't all play in one another's games.

4.) All five of us are males.

5.) I have two game stores near me - I wouldn't classify either as "good."

6.) My setting is 100% homebrew.

7.) I've been playing roleplaying games for twenty-nine years, but I began with wargames (both board and miniatures) a few years before that.

8.) I was introduced to roleplaying games by a friend and fellow wargamer.

 

[Odhanan]

1.) How many players in your group?
Seven this year, DM included.

2.) Do you DM?
Yes.

3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many?
I'm the main DM, but this year, my fiancee started running a part of the game too. Our characters were exiled on another plane, and were looking for a way to escape. She ran that part, which allowed me to become a player too.

Next year, I'll be running Ptolus. My fiancee is already working on a Call of Cthulhu campaign. Maybe the Masks of Nyarlathotep. More probably something inspired by it.

4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group?
2 Males, 5 Females. Next year, I'll be the only male remaining, most probably. That's really not a problem though.

5.) Got a good gamestore near you and what is it?
The nearest I know is about 500 kilometers away. It's called Imperial Hobbies, in Richmond, BC (Vancouver area).

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

7.) How long have you been playing and how old are you?
I've been playing for 18 years. I'm 29 years old.

8.) Who taught you to play?
My cousin Carlos. He was around 23. I was 11. He ran many solo games for me after I replaced my brother who quit playing D&D one afternoon (he was playing a wizard with 2 HP and a Light spell, basically). I was instantly hooked, even if said wizard did not survive the afternoon.

9.) What are you running presently?
The Seven Spires. A mix of homebrew and published stuff using bits and pieces of campaign settings, modules I like and so on. Off the top of my head Ptolus, Eberron, Laelith, Ghostwalk, The Banewarrens, Ruins of Intrigue and Arcana Evolved, Greyhawk and more.

 

[RFisher]

1.) How many players in your group?

Currently 4. (Assuming by "players", you don't mean to exclude a DM.) We've fluctuated from as low as 3 to probably a high of 6 or so.

2.) Do you DM?

Yes

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

Yes. Two of us DM regularly, & the other two either have or are considering it.

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

3:1 (Was 3:2 for a long time.)

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

Dragon's Lair

6.) Mainly modules or homebrew stuff?

Hmm. Probably about half & half so far.

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

Since about 1981. I was born in 1969. (For the math challenged, at the time I'm posting this, I've been playing for about 22 years, & I am currently 37 years old.)

8.) Who taught you to play?

Tom Moldvay. (Well, not directly, but via his Basic Set. MWM & EGG certainly had some early influence on me as well.)

 

[Mark]

It's been a while so let's see who is new that has info for this thread and who posted before that has NEW info for us.