How do you Play

[Lord Vangarel]

Inspired by the thread on Why do you Play http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109136 I got thinking it would be interesting to see how people play.

Our group meets once a week (every Thursday) in a players house and plays from 8pm til midnight. We don't use miniatures or a battlemap as we sit in arm chairs spread around the room. For rules we stick pretty much with D&D3.5 and have stuck with D&D3.x since it came out. There are 5 people in our group and two take turns at being DM. Our average age is about 32. Most campaigns reach levels 14+ but the current one has just passed level 20 and has taken just over 15 months to reach this stage. Of the core races we don't really see halflings, gnomes, half-orcs, and half-elves played. Of the core classes we don't see bards, and rarely see paladins or sorcerers.

So there you go, how does your group play?

 

[diaglo]

read the story hour in my sig.


or visit the gamers seeking gamers forum for the OD&D stuff.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Pretty much standard I believe.

We use some optional materail from various books but mostly core 3.5 rules.

We have some miniatures but use whatever's closest to characters and whatever is handy for monsters.

Play around a table from about 6:30 PM till 11:30 PM.

XP calculated at the end of the game.

 

[DaveMage]

We play around a dining room table (with minis) about every other week (sometimes less often ), from around 1 pm to 5 pm.

 

[Maliki]

We meet once a week either Mon or Tues from about 5-10. We playat my house and 90% of the time I am the DM.We have six in our group(sometimes seven.) Ages range from 37(me) to 16(my son) with one player 28(whom I have games with for over 12 years) and three@22 who started playing with 3.0. We don't use minis or a battlemat, and use mostly WotC products.

 

[Wombat]

Seven of us get together (6 + GM) on alternate Saturdays, starting at 4pm and running until c. 10pm. We mainly sit around the dining room table, but sometimes we lounge around on the floor, etc. (especially when we take our mid-game break to watch the latest Foamy the Squirrel episode).

We use all sorts of different books, depending on the specific campaign we have been running. The current campaign uses none of the core books at all, as we use Monte's AU, along with GR's Skull & Bones and AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures.

Use of minis is intermittent at best. The consensus in the group is two of the players love 'em, 3 hate 'em, and one is so-so, leaning to negative. And, as GM, I see good reasons for why they are not appropriate terribly often.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Myself and six players gather at my house once a week (Sundays) for about 4 hours at a time.
We play on a 4x8 table I made with a raised area for 9 TacTiles for the minis (which I love to use)
Two of my players love to really roleplay while the other 4 are content with slashing thru a dungeon.
We are currently gaming in Eberron and having a great time

 

[Crothian]

There are 4 of us. We use 3.5 and Arcana Unearthed. We don't use a battle map or minis. We have atable but no one really sits there so I store books on it. It is very relaxed and easy going.

 

[RichCsigs]

Both of the groups I play with meet one Sat. every month and play from around 5pm til sometime between 11pm & midnight.
One group has 9 players, 5 of which are female (and only 2 of them are sig. others!). We play in the DMs living room around his coffee table which is big enough to fit the battlemat. We use minis but aren't fussy about haveing exactly what we need (orcs are often used for whatever we're fighting, etc.). This group had a TPK 2 games ago (no one listened when I said "Run!"), so we are still finding out about everyone's new characters.
The other group has 10 players and two DMs, both of whom run at the same time. We meet at a small studio we rent out that is center to everyone. This group can trace it's history back about 20+ years now but we have all spread out over the state. We each play a small amount to rent the studio so no one has to drive more than 30 - 40 minutes to play. The current campaign has been going since 3e came out but there are no original characters left (death has visited this group quite often). We also play with a battlemat & minis here and we use a Yahoo group for recaps and inbetween game role-playing. We have a wide range of classes in the group and except for an elf, dwarf and gnome everyone else is human.

 

[kenobi65]

Well, I'm in four groups, so I'll describe each one:

#1: We play about once a month, on Fridays, from 7:30 until about midnight. We've got 8 players (6 men, 2 women, plus me, a guy, as DM), playing 3.5, in the Forgotten Realms (though I write the adventures myself). We meet at Peg's house, because she's centrally located, and has a big table. We use a Megamat, minis, the Core Rulebooks plus a lot of the FR books. This is the 5th campaign we've run with this group; each campaign tends to last about 3 years or so.

#2: We play about once a month, on Sundays, from about 6 to midnight. We've got 3 players (2 men, 1 woman, plus me as DM), playing 3.5, in the Realms -- I use pre-written modules for this one, mostly either Adventure Path or Dungeon. Location moves between the players' houses. Again, we use a Megamat, minis, the Core books, and the FR books. This campaign has been going on for about 2 years; this group was formed from the players remaining from the breakup of a previous group.

#3: This is my old gaming group from Wisconsin. As we're spread out over 2 states, we get together 4-5 times a year. There's seven of us (5 men, 2 women), including myself (I DM about 75% of the time for this group). We do two big get-togethers a year: in the spring at our house, and in the fall in the Wisconsin Dells -- at each of these get-togethers, we play for 3-4 days at a stretch, playing a variety of campaigns (mostly 3.5, but also Star Wars, TORG, and Spycraft). We also get together for one-evening games a few times a year, mostly when my wife and I go back to Green Bay to visit. We use a Battlemat and minis; most of our games use the Core books, and some of the WotC expansion books, but very little in the way of third-party material.

#4: I play RPGA games with a loose-knit group of a couple dozen folks in chat rooms on the Internet. We typically play 2-3 times a month; each game session usually lasts from 7:30 until midnight (it usually takes 2 of these sessions (say, Tuesday and Thursday of the same week) to play a standard 4-hour RPGA module; people type slower than they talk).