How Many Groups Do You Play In?

[rose4100]

i currently game in two groups. One group (i've been with for about 7 months) is more about fun but isn't very eager to get together...actually... quite lathargic.

My second group (my second session is this sunday) are all veteran players of over 15 years and are really into the role playing/character development/inteligent gaming which is really new and exciting for me. We all come together from across the city just to roll the dice and have an evening of fun. God i love this hobby. ^_^ Too bad i go to work the next day with only a few hours of sleep. lol

 

[Psychic Warrior]

4. I GM two and play in 2. All are 3.5 D&D now (there was a Star Wars game in there but it came to a great conclusion just a few weeks ago). I recently added a new player (ie a stranger I met at the Worldwide D&D Day at my FLGS) and he is working out great. It is the first time I have had a stranger sit down at my table in ages.

 

[the Jester]

In that case:

I dm several groups... group 1 is the ALPHA campaign, my epic game.

Group 2 is group 1 plus one player and minus another.

Group 3 is a pretty well open pick-up style game. It is like group 2 minus a couple players and plus a couple players, sometimes at random.

I play in two more groups:

Group 4 is a subset of group 1, run by a different player.

Group 5 is the most far removed group from group 1. It has the least amount of crossover players and the most 'other' players (that aren't in groups 1-2).

 

[Zamtap]

I've picked 2 but it should be 3

1 sunday evenings - currently serenity but soon gonna be warhammer 2nd ed

2 wednesday evenings - Vampire

3 firday evenings - D&D at the local games club

Zamtap

 

[Li Shenron]

One core group of 4 which runs different games (alternate DMs), but there are other players who join only one game.

 

[haakon1]

Hard to count

1) Local game I'm a player in, meets about once every 2-3 months, with people I only know from gaming.

2) Local game I DM, also about once every 2-3 months, with friends from outside gaming.

3) Email game that I DM, continuous postings (slowly and not on a schedule) since 1998, with friends from college and an old job, scattered across 6 states.

4) Game that I DM, once or twice a year, with friends from college on the other side of the country.

So, to WOTC, I'm not gaming at all, since I don't play every week, but to me, I'm gaming a lot, since I have 4 different groups!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

If by groups you mean "collection of people playing together", it's 1, but we play different campaigns alternating each weekend.

It was more before (2 or even 3 at some points, with some overlapping in two of those), but I left the others when more games were cancelled - usually on very short notice, with more an excuse than a reason. I don't tolerate other people wasting my time like that. I commit to the game, I won't stay away on a whim or when "there's something better to do", so I don't make any other plans (often declining invitations to other stuff) for the time set aside for roleplaying. I respect that others do the same, so I won't leave them standing in the rain because I felt like going to the lake or anything, and I expect others to show me the same courtesy.

I must say the guys that are in my current group are all great people, they're enthusiastic for the game, and they'll respect the gaming sessions for what they are: social contracts.

 

[Gold Roger]

2 or 1, depending on how you count (The group I play in has all the members of the group I DM for, plus the DMs brother and best friend).

 

[MarkB]

3 for me.

Weekly on Fridays, DMing at the local D&D club.

Weekly on Wednesdays (work permitting), playing in a Rokugan campaign.

Irregularly (averaging about once a fortnight) on Sundays, various games but currently playing in a Shackled City campaign.

There is some overlap of players - they're all members of the Friday nights club - but the club currently runs three games, and none of the players in my current Fridays game overlap the Wednesdays and Sundays games.

 

[Ashrum the Black]

One at the moment. I have been in two before though. It wasn't really a problem though. The second group met once a month and both myself and my wife were both players so it wasn't as though there was tons of prep time involved.

I'd have to say that the if you can fit the time into your lives then go for it. I can't anymore with my one year old son the Toddling Tornado. But you may not have these kinds of problems.

-Ashrum