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Is your Gaming situation Stable or Unstable?
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My gaming situation is so stable you might almost call it stagnant. I've been playing with most of my fellow players for over 25 years. The most recent addition to the group happened about five years ago.
Campaigns tend to last at least several years. The longest was about 6.5 years.
Campaigns tend to last at least several years. The longest was about 6.5 years.
kitsune9
Adventurer
I would say I'm stable though RL with buying a house put the campaign on hiatus for a while for this year, but overall, I've been gaming with the same group of guys for the past four or five years and one guy ever since I moved to SF Bay Area 11 years ago. I still keep in touch with the gamers who I don't game with because they regularly play on the weekdays and I play on a weekend.
My campaigns last two to three years as a whole we a definitive start at 1st level and end the campaign story arc in the teens or epic level.
My campaigns last two to three years as a whole we a definitive start at 1st level and end the campaign story arc in the teens or epic level.
IronWolf
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Yep - this is my group. We have a good group to game with and am quite happy that we don't have to go looking for replacement players all the time and that we have campaigns that last a good amount of time, sprinkled in with some shorter affairs to let us play a bit with a different system and such. Good times!
greatamericanfolkher
Explorer
I'm going to call my group stable. I'm lucky enough to live in a player rich environment so while the people playing in any given game might not be the same from one game to the next (multiple DMs running multiple games, usually alternating weeks) we're all a part of an extended gaming group and all play really well together.
Jan van Leyden
Adventurer
Pretty stable. The current group exists since '03 in this player configuration and is living through its second campaign. Okay, we meet every three weeks so we don't have so much playtime.
My very first group disbanded three years ago, after a 25 years gaming history.
My very first group disbanded three years ago, after a 25 years gaming history.
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
Really? That's just crazy to me. You still find the game fun?
Stable with the core 5 gaming together since the mid 80's. We have had some periods with no play through the mid 90's with college etc. In 2001, one of our newer guys got us all back in to 3e and I received a call from our old DM and the core asking if I was interested and said I would check it out. Now 10 years later, we have the core 5 along with 3 others with 2 of those 3 coming on board in 2001 and the 3rd coming on in the last 5 years being my brother in law.
I don't know how we do it, but we play 2-3 marathon sessions a year beginning on Thursday nights at 5-8 pm and play straight through the wee hours of Sunday morning with very limited breaks. Lots of laughs and the best of times. We have one guy now stationed in San Diego and he comes in to the State College area for every session. The rest of us are spread from around State College to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as well. I give kudos to our great DM for all the hard work and running these sessions as it is demanding and he does an amazing job.
Out of that group, 5 of us play via Fantasy grounds about 3 times a month and allow another person to DM so our marathon DM can be a player. These sessions are fun and used for testing our home brewed game complete with SRD, book, etc. Combination of Conan, PF, 3e, and 4e that we have been playing for the last 4 marathon sessions and is finally the game we all enjoy.
In addition, some of the rest of us work a local campaign about once a month with the one guys son and his friend and another local guy. Unfortunately, with 8 people around table for our big sessions, we really have no room for anyone else and don't open it up. Next one MLK weekend in January. Cannot wait and until then, FG and local one will suffice.
I don't know how we do it, but we play 2-3 marathon sessions a year beginning on Thursday nights at 5-8 pm and play straight through the wee hours of Sunday morning with very limited breaks. Lots of laughs and the best of times. We have one guy now stationed in San Diego and he comes in to the State College area for every session. The rest of us are spread from around State College to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as well. I give kudos to our great DM for all the hard work and running these sessions as it is demanding and he does an amazing job.
Out of that group, 5 of us play via Fantasy grounds about 3 times a month and allow another person to DM so our marathon DM can be a player. These sessions are fun and used for testing our home brewed game complete with SRD, book, etc. Combination of Conan, PF, 3e, and 4e that we have been playing for the last 4 marathon sessions and is finally the game we all enjoy.
In addition, some of the rest of us work a local campaign about once a month with the one guys son and his friend and another local guy. Unfortunately, with 8 people around table for our big sessions, we really have no room for anyone else and don't open it up. Next one MLK weekend in January. Cannot wait and until then, FG and local one will suffice.
Merkuri
Explorer
I'm in two groups right now, a live one that's fairly new and an online one that has been going on for years. The live one has been going on for only about 9 months without a real schedule. I don't really know how to call that one.
The online group has had the same three people (me included) for about 5-6 years. For a while, aside from those three core people, we kept rotating other players. There was a time when we couldn't seem to fill our fifth seat - the players we picked up kept flaking out on us or leaving for some reason, or got kicked by the DM for bad behavior. At this point it seemed like the good-to-crappy player ratio was something like 1:10. We had to have very strict attendance rules (3 unexpected absences and you were out) to try to weed out the bad players.
Then about 2-3 years ago we picked up another couple of reliable players who have stuck with us. We've had a few people join up and drop, but they've all been decent folks who had to leave for scheduling reasons. We've struck player gold lately.
We play every Monday like clockwork. People are good about letting us know if they'll have to miss a game, and we've only had to cancel one or two game sessions in the past few months.
Our campaigns with this group tend to last between 6 months and a year, though we recently went through a period of trying a whole bunch of different stuff, which meant a lot of one- and two-shots. We're just about to start up a Dark Sun campaign which I'm expecting will go back to our 6-12 month time span.
So I guess you'd call this online group pretty stable right now.
The online group has had the same three people (me included) for about 5-6 years. For a while, aside from those three core people, we kept rotating other players. There was a time when we couldn't seem to fill our fifth seat - the players we picked up kept flaking out on us or leaving for some reason, or got kicked by the DM for bad behavior. At this point it seemed like the good-to-crappy player ratio was something like 1:10. We had to have very strict attendance rules (3 unexpected absences and you were out) to try to weed out the bad players.
Then about 2-3 years ago we picked up another couple of reliable players who have stuck with us. We've had a few people join up and drop, but they've all been decent folks who had to leave for scheduling reasons. We've struck player gold lately.
We play every Monday like clockwork. People are good about letting us know if they'll have to miss a game, and we've only had to cancel one or two game sessions in the past few months.
Our campaigns with this group tend to last between 6 months and a year, though we recently went through a period of trying a whole bunch of different stuff, which meant a lot of one- and two-shots. We're just about to start up a Dark Sun campaign which I'm expecting will go back to our 6-12 month time span.
So I guess you'd call this online group pretty stable right now.
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