How did your gaming group come about?

[sniffles]

After I moved in with my boyfriend, I was unemployed for a while (this was in about 1994). He used to go play RuneQuest on Sunday afternoons. One Sunday I was really bored and asked if I could come watch the game. He called the GM to ask if it was okay, and the GM said, "Come early and we'll roll you up a character." I did, and I've been roleplaying ever since.

After about 6 months of that campaign, a friend of the GM's was looking for people to play Warhammer FRPG. He invited all of his RuneQuest group to go over to another guy's apartment to play, so we said "sure" and went along. That's where we met 90% of the people we currently game with. When that campaign wrapped up 18 months or so later, the host of that game had started a couple of campaigns of his own that we joined. Then two of the other players started GMing their own campaigns, and pretty soon we had a rotating schedule of about 6 different campaigns, with games occurring every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Eventually we added a couple of other people to the group as they became friends with everyone else (primarily through all of the guys playing Magic: The Gathering together on non-game nights).

One of the player/GMs from that Warhammer campaign got married last August. One of the other players was his best man. The best man is also my immediate co-worker and one of my best friends. Tonight my fiance' (the boyfriend who got me into gaming) is going over to my co-worker's house to play video games. We're a very tight group. When my fiance' and I get married my co-worker will probably get to be a best man again. We all see each other nearly every week. I've gone on vacations with some of my gaming friends. They kept the campaigns running for me when I went through cancer treatment in 2003.

Sadly, the GM of that original RuneQuest group has sort of dropped out. I haven't seen him in 2 years.

 

[Wycen]

The most active group, at least now, started without me a couple years ago. They needed new players, as personal and party conflicts dropped 1 or more players from the group. The DM knew me from previous game groups, which I'll get to later. Got an email from him and decided to give Scarred Lands a try, plus I figured at the time it wouldn't hurt to expand my "network" since I was unemployed.

Well, they didn't do squat to help me get a job (well not quite true), but I'm still gaming with them. I don't however really hang out with any outside of gaming. The guy who was DM'ing Scarred Lands eventually quit his tech job and opened a game store. I've done some work for him, but by the time he could hire someone I had a full time job. I occasionally drop by the store to see how things are and most recently to supply him with Dawning Star books.

Other groups later.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I've been interested in gaming since HS, and did manage to play in a regular Shadowrun game during college, as well as a couple one-off 2e games. But it wasn't until I went to Japan that I got to be part of a regular, well-run D&D game (3e). The DM was the husband of a very old friend, and the game was very fun.

Flash-forward three years later, and I'm back in the U.S., but I've got the gaming bug bad. I'd been a long-time resident of ENWorld, so I started posting and reading in the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum, where I eventually found a group. They were decent folk, and we gamed for a few months together, but in the end I didn't really click with most of that group.

Luckily, one of the players in that group, the one whom I got along with best, had been doing some looking around of his own, and eventually he formed his own group from various sources, and invited me to be a part of it. This is my current group.

After gaming with the previous group, I did not really expect the new group to become good friends, although I was hoping we'd be friendly and game well together. To my surprise and delight, they've become really close over the last year. I enjoy doing things with them other than gaming. In short, they've become friends whom I happen to game with, rather than gamers that I meet once a week.

They kept the campaigns running for me when I went through cancer treatment in 2003.

That's fantastic, sniffles! I've been undergoing treatment myself this year, and my group came up many Saturdays, where we gamed with them in chairs and me in a hospital bed. It was something I looked forward to the entire rest of the week.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I found my current group by placing an internet ad. It worked out amazingly well.

And in a freakish coincidence, all four of us are physicists.

 

[pogre]

My gaming groups generally have started with my brother. We just started building groups from locals, but alas he moved away a couple years ago. The current group has three members that I can trace directly to my involvement on ENWorld.

When I was in Law School in St. Louis I formed a gaming group from a bunch of barkeeps and kitchen folks from my favorite hang-out, Blueberry Hill. They would bring tons of cheap beer and lots of bar food after close Tuesday nights and we would game until 5 or 6 in the morning. Needless to say, I did not see my Wednesday morning classes very often...

 

[The Thayan Menace]

We started out as a conspiracy of three, then gradual evolution took place ....

 

[PJ-Mason]

Naw, I live down the road from

(a) A crazy family of survivalists. Home-schooled kids. Army surplus store. Far far far FAR too many guns. Mad survivalist skillz.

(b) A major firearms importer / exporter. We used to work for him, and a few friends of our still do, and if it all came down to it, I'd go there. He's got about a dozen M-2 Browning MG's converted for semi-auto fire. And thousands of other firearms. And mad survivalist skillz. If he won't take us in, then we'll get Peter to grab one and come over here. We have a farm.

Man, you are hooked up. hmm....Vankleek Hill, Ontario. The capital of the new post-apocalypic empire of north america.

 

[ForceUser]

I found my current group by placing an internet ad. It worked out amazingly well.

And in a freakish coincidence, all four of us are physicists.

LOL! Mathematically, what are the chances of that?

 

[leporidae]

Highschool... mathteam. That was 20 years ago and the core group still games every week.

 

[Snuble]

I don't post often, except around Gencon so here it is

Out of the 6 total players, 3 of us have been playing together since freshman year of college (96). In 2000 we all lost touch with each other completely. I ran into one of the guys in 2001 while going to see Spiderman on a whim at the movies.

Another guy that I played with before that I grew up moved to Indy and I suckered him back into the group. One of the other original guys I ran into at my college's homecoming game in 2002 and found out he was still around Indy.

Since then we have pulled in couple of coworkers that have come an gone, my brother in law that joined then went off to lawschool, and a few others.

Four out the Six have known eachother for at least 10 years. One of the other guys is a coworker and the other guy joined us via a board posting at a local game store.

Generally a big mish mash of people that have had a lot of fun over the years.