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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8169096" data-attributes="member: 30438">BECMI/1e - One group, the first people I ever started playing with. It was a few friends and my brother, who has been in most of my gaming groups throughout my life, because I'm kinda stuck with him <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2e - Three groups. We grew apart from some of the people in that original group, and essentially formed a new one that began with a short-lived D&D Club in school. Later in high school there was a second group (social groups were in flux back then) that ended when my brother and I moved away. We didn't put in the effort to start a new gaming group and got busy with our band for a while. Later in college I formed a new group, the first one that didn't involve my brother.  3e - One group, and a small one at that. We played some 3e, but it didn't quite connect with us and eventually just stopped playing again.4e - One group. An out-of-town friend ran a one-off with a bunch of us while he was visiting and I ended up inheriting the group. There were a lot of players dropping in and out in the beginning as people were more excited about the idea of playing D&D again than actually committing to playing. 5e - Three groups. After 4e I ran a 1e game with that same group, then switched to 5e when it came out. Those people still had trouble finding time to game, and eventually I just said the heck with it, shut that group down, and started a new one. With people that will actually show up to game. That group has been going strong ever since. I play with some of those original folks now and then (but only as a player, I'm not about to put myself through that hassle again), but they still have trouble maintaining commitment and those games have all collapsed. I also run an open table at a local gaming cafe (or did - now it's an online game).So my grand total is nine.</blockquote>

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