D&D 5E How do you play D&D?

[JonnyP71]

Hmmm, I play 1-3 times a week in groups with people I met via LFG boards/Meetup etc - but as a result they have become my friends.

 

[ccs]

99.9% of all my gaming - RPG, minis, or board games - is done in person, with friends.
Several different circles of friends depending upon day/type of game, but friends.

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

In person, with friends primarily.
Partly because some of my games start with existing friends, and partly because even people I've never met before generally become friends over the course of sessions.

Some roleplaying in larger LRP systems where I don't know everyone (but thats not D&D)
Some roleplaying in MMOs (one of which is DDO).

 

[xanstin]

Online , other - Roll20 at first but migrated to Fantasy Grounds mostly AL stuff or rules, but consistent group for the most part so can safely put in friends after 2 years, but started as random group.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

5. Aside. Playing in on-line PbP systems, I have to marvel at those who played in snailmail PbP systems.

The acronyms you seek, sir, are play by e-mail (PbEM) or play by mail (PbM). True grognards know this. Not that I am a grognard. But I know one. Or knew one, once. He died when he slipped and fell after throwing his cane at a passing Millenial.

6. Anti-gnome paladin comments are always welcome. You have to get those ankle-biters before they get you.

FIFY.




I voted "On-line, friends." I do PbP with, admittedly, people I met online but as I'm choosy about who I spend time around, I now regard them as genuine friends. I'd certainly meet up with any of them for a beer over dinner if the opportunity to do so presented itself. I also have a Saturday morning chat game conducted via Google Hangout with a pack of Canadians I met online who I definitely regard as good friends. A small sliver of my gaming time goes to tabletop gaming with my children and husband...not very much or very often, however, as we're all too busy with sports activities on weekends and evenings. (I can often be found camped in my natural habitat--the vehicle--enjoying a bit of PbP on my smart phone while I wait to chauffeur children to and from events) I'd love to have a regular in-person tabletop game. Probably not in the cards, though.

Say more about the comment that broke your grinchy heart?

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

Even when I get into games in some other format, it ends up leading to more of the same - in person, with friends.

Running games people enjoy is just too good of a way to make friends.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Sacrosanct]

Hmmm, I play 1-3 times a week in groups with people I met via LFG boards/Meetup etc - but as a result they have become my friends.

Yeah, despite my earlier comment, I met a couple at an AL game and they have since become part of our main group and good friends. Just went to their baby shower the other day as a matter of fact.

 

[Kite474]

For us we play a in-person game every two weeks and we are all friends or at the very least acquaintances. Though I may be considering taking a break from that one.

For myself, along with that I play online with some out of town friends.

 

[TerraDave]

Both the early results and the comments up-thread on "making friends through gaming" are both inline with my personnel experience and quite heartening.

They make me feel like a gnome paladin smiting the kobold king while riding a giant badger.

Well, almost like that.