rknop
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I'm very busy with real life. I'm 36, an assistant professor at a well-known University, and an usually "in the closet" as far as roleplaying gaming goes (in that most of the world views it as so geeky that I'd rather not talk about it in front of them).
My wife is a non-gamer, but is very tolerant of my gaming habits, and encourages them.
How do I game? For a long time, all the gaming I did was online: PBEM gaming, for the most part.
Nowadays I have a gaming group; at first, we met ostensibly every other week, but in practice it was more like every 3 weeks. Now we try to meet every week, and most months we meet three times. I'm the oldest one in the group, but most of the others are in their mid-late twenties, and our play style would count as "mature" (in the true sense of the word, not the eumphamistic sense of the word). Where did I find the group? Well, we're mostly a GURPS group, and I found it by trolling for local gamers on the Pyramid message boards.
The last group I was in (before I moved) was found similarly, although it was somebody else trolling.
My current group doesn't have a regular meeting time because all of our schedules are complicated. Sometimes we can get close to a set time for a few months at a go, but then there's a new semester and all of our schedules change. (All of the other memebers of the group are graduate students, so the school year makes a difference for all of us. Then there are jobs, and scheduling of all that.) We're just flexible, and work to meet when we can. We generally have a couple of different campaigns going. I run one that tries to be a bunch of connected one-shots, so that if we can't all make it, I can game with whoever does make it. Sometimes we've played one-on-ones, sometimes we have a campaign set for when everybody is there, and sometimes we just get together to play Munchkin or other non-RPG games.
And, no, we haven't played d20 yet, nor are we likely to in the near future
-Rob
My wife is a non-gamer, but is very tolerant of my gaming habits, and encourages them.
How do I game? For a long time, all the gaming I did was online: PBEM gaming, for the most part.
Nowadays I have a gaming group; at first, we met ostensibly every other week, but in practice it was more like every 3 weeks. Now we try to meet every week, and most months we meet three times. I'm the oldest one in the group, but most of the others are in their mid-late twenties, and our play style would count as "mature" (in the true sense of the word, not the eumphamistic sense of the word). Where did I find the group? Well, we're mostly a GURPS group, and I found it by trolling for local gamers on the Pyramid message boards.
The last group I was in (before I moved) was found similarly, although it was somebody else trolling.
My current group doesn't have a regular meeting time because all of our schedules are complicated. Sometimes we can get close to a set time for a few months at a go, but then there's a new semester and all of our schedules change. (All of the other memebers of the group are graduate students, so the school year makes a difference for all of us. Then there are jobs, and scheduling of all that.) We're just flexible, and work to meet when we can. We generally have a couple of different campaigns going. I run one that tries to be a bunch of connected one-shots, so that if we can't all make it, I can game with whoever does make it. Sometimes we've played one-on-ones, sometimes we have a campaign set for when everybody is there, and sometimes we just get together to play Munchkin or other non-RPG games.
And, no, we haven't played d20 yet, nor are we likely to in the near future
-Rob
