Tell me about your D&D group

[Phaezen]

I am doing little impromptu questionnaire cross posted from here and could use your help.

Tell me:

How long has your group been playing together?

2 Groups call them the Friday Group and the Saturday Group

Friday, in various incarnations for about 12 years

Saturday, I joined roughly 5 years ago, the group has been together in various incarnations since 1st ed

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

Friday, currently:

32, Male, Salesrep
32, Male, Property Valuator
20's, Male, IT
20's, Male, Post Grad Student
20's, Male, Unknow
33, Male, Warehouse Manager (Movie Props)
20's, Female, Post Grad Student

Saturday
40's, Male, IT
40's?, Female, House Wife
40's?, Male, Teacher
32, Male, Sales Rep

What edition are you playing?

Friday: Finishing a 3E campaign, then moving on to 4E, though we do dabble in Shadowrun, Cthulhu, WOD, and other sytems from time to time.

Saturday: 3.x and variations od D20 - Arcana Evolved, Iron Heroes, C&C. Mainly a heavily houseruled 3.5.

Thanks

Pleasure

Phaezen

 

[Jan van Leyden]

How long has your group been playing together?

Group A: One player started with me in '83, current basic setup since 2000, last addition in January; so I'd say 8 years

Group B: nearly 7 years, constant roster

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

Group A:

Male, 51, MA business, working in computer industry
Male, 47, MA physics, technical writer
Male, 46, PHD physics, software developer
Male, 42, PHD physics, science manager
Female, 42, nurse
Male, 37, computer consultant
Female, (?), public administration


Group B:

Male, 47, MA physics, technical writer
Female, 47, PHD physics, technical writer
Male, 46, PHD physics, trainer
Female, 42, nurse
Male, 39, MA biology, softare developer
Male, 33, MA physics, software developer

What edition are you playing?

Both groups 4th edition. Two players not completeley convinced of switch. This is probably due to the change from higher level characters to 1st level ones.

Thanks

You're welcome!

 

[Jorunkun]

How long has your group been playing together?
The core five players have been playing since 1985, so 23 years.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?
All male, all 38 or 39 years old. Two work in IT, two are teachers, one works in social services.

What edition are you playing?
Upgraded faithfully from red box to AD&D, 2nd Ed. to 3.5; with campaigns running for many years. Playtested 4e, but no plans to switch anytime soon.

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Must say I'm quite surprised that there are so many players well past their teens. At 30something, it seems one is well within in the middle age-bracket of players - whudathunk? But then ENWorld probably has a built-in bias, right?

 

[Bluenose]

I am doing little impromptu questionnaire cross posted from here and could use your help.

Tell me:

How long has your group been playing together?

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

What edition are you playing?

Thanks

Current players are:

Me, 44, Male, Librarian, 32 years playing experience
Jenny, 44, Female, Teacher, 30 years with this group
Dave, 37, Male, Vicar, 11 years with this group
Carol, 19, Student, 7 years with this group (Jenny's daughter)
Steve, 25, Accountant, 2 years with this group

We generally a different campaign on alternate weeks while it lasts. Our current games are SWSE and a 4th Edition game starting this week.

 

[Adrift]

How long has your group been playing together?

The core of our group have been playing together since 2003.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

30 - banking consultant [male]
28 - teacher [female]
27 - unemployed [male]
21 - student [male]
34 - physical therapy [male]
15 - student [female]
15 - student [female]

What edition are you playing?

4th edition

 

[vagabundo]

How long has your group been playing together?

Pretty constantly now for ten years and sporadically for about five years before that.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

DM:
Me, always , 33 male IT guy

Players:
30 Male Human Resources Analyst
27 Male Artist
24 Female Biomedical Analyst
27 Male Mobile Phones Tech guy..

All except one are my borthers and sister.
We also have a guy who shows up for one session in a blue moon, he's 26 male Navy.


What edition are you playing?

4e (we never play anything else 'cept dnd)

 

[Shades of Green]

How long has your group been playing together?

The last two years, but not in one continuous campaign, but rather first a Shadowrun campaign, then a D&D one.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

DM (me): Male, 26, Ecology M.A. student and Hebrew-English Translator
Player (my girlfriend): Female, 23, Animal Sciences (a combination of Zoology, Biotechnology and Agricultural Sciences) B.A. student and Lab Assistant

What edition are you playing?

Now playing D&D 3.0E; before that we've played Shadowrun 4E; starting from December we'll be playing a Mongoose Traveller campaign.

Thanks

You welcome

 

[Wicht]

Only live group at the moment is my family. I've been playing with my kids for about six years. Our ages are 35, 37, 12, 11, 9 and 8. Currently we are using 3e and the Pathfinder Beta rules and expect to stick with Pathfinder for a while.

Am also playing in 6 PbP at the moment and all 6 use either 3.5 or Pathfinder.

 

[Aristotle]

How long has your group been playing together?

We have a few seats that rotate players in and out as people come and go, but the current group of core players have been playing together for about 12 or 13 years.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

All ages are approximate.
> Male, 31, Helpdesk Technician
> Male, 31, Factory Worker
> Male, 31, Factory Worker
> Male, 31, Factory Worker (recent return from the Navy)
> Male, 36, Factory Worker

What edition are you playing?

4e. Two 5 hour sessions a month.

 

[Papa-DRB]

I am doing little impromptu questionnaire.

How long has your group been playing together?

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

What edition are you playing?

How long: Since 1990. At that time it was two groups. 1) My son and his friends as teenagers, and 2) my adult friends. I merged the groups after dropouts around 2000.

Gender: All male,
DM (ie. me) 61 - Mainframe CICS support
Players:
54 - Mainframe VTAM support
49 - Mainframe MVS developer
35 - Web developer
35 - Report writer (Excel and VB)
35 - IT support at local University
33 - Electrician

Edition: Pathfinder RPG Beta rules and will continue after they become final. As an FYI, this is a "I'm too old and grumpy to learn a new system (4E) and I'm the DM, so we do it my way" and "We don't want to spend more money when we have all these 3.5 books and adventures still to play". It is not a "hate 4E" reason.

-- david
Papa.DRB

 

[scruffygrognard]

How long has your group been playing together?
Around 14 years, though some group members have changed over the years.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?
37: Special Education teacher
37: Assistant to a college's head librarian
39: Market analyst (current unemployed)
38: Chemistry professor
39: US Customs agent
32: Office worker/Tour guide
All male group

What edition are you playing?
D&D 3.5

 

[Dausuul]

My group is sort of split; we play on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons, but some people only come for Thursdays, others only come for Saturdays, and a couple of us show up for both. We've been playing together in one incarnation or another for about five years now, although we've had a lot of people come and go. Currently we have four old members (one Thursday-only, one Saturday-only, two both) and four relatively new ones (two Thursday-only and two Saturday-only).

We're all male, in our late twenties to early thirties. Professions:

Software developer (me; Thursday [DM] and Saturday)
Software support specialist (Vayden; Thursday and Saturday [DM])
Human resources "employee development manager" (Thursday only)
Radio Shack franchise owner (Thursday only)
Radio Shack employee (Thursday only)
Unemployed (Saturday only)
Market analyst (Saturday only)
? (Saturday only - he's new, don't know much about him yet)

Both segments are playing 4th Edition D&D and have no plans to change any time soon. (Other games we've played include Aberrant, 3.5E, and Iron Heroes.)

 

[FungiMuncher]

I'm a member of two groups:

Sunday Group:
Playing since 2002
Early forties, male, teacher
Mid thirties, male, restaurant worker
Mid thirties, female, secretary
Late twenties, male, restaurant worker/doctoral student
Late teens, male, high school student
Playing 4e

Tuesday Group:
I've played RPGs with one of the IT guys since high school (late 70's). Most of this group has been playing since our college years (mid-late 80's).
Early forties, male, teacher
Early forties, male, IT
Early forties, male, IT
Early forties, male, IT
Early forties, male, IT (yeah, that's four of 'em)
Early forties, male, restaurant worker
Early teens, male, middle school student
Early forties, male, civil engineering
Winding down a 3.5 campaign, preparing to play a 4e campaign, talk of a '3.75' campaign in the future. A few of us are eager to play 4e, most of the rest are at least willing.

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I'd also consider myself a member of the 'online player group,' but it has been particularly difficult to find opportunities lately.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Current group as a whole: Since June. My girlfriend has been gaming with me since 2003 at the release of 3.5; the rest of them have joined over the course of the past three years.

All of us (except one, denoted with an asterisk) work in the Casino industry. We're split into two groups with significant overlap, so I'll list all of us here.

33/M/Casino Cashier
32/M/Slot Attendant
32/F/Loan Officer*
28/M/Slot Technician
27/M/Table Games Dealer
25/F/Buffet Supervisor
25/M/Cage & Credit Supervisor (Myself)
23/M/Cage & Credit Supervisor
23/F/Casino Cashier

Playing 4e since about November of last year when I cobbled together a pre-pre-preview from SWSE and Book of 9 Swords stuff. After about 8 variations, I'm kinda struck by how similar my preview stuff turned out to be.

-TRRW

 

[Shabe]

How Long?

6 Years, its a subset of our social circle from university.

Genders Age Profession (1-4 refers to the different groups)

Male 27 Local Government 1,2,3,4
Male 27 Local Government 1,2,3,4
Male 31 Chemist 1,2,3,4
Male 34 Disabled/Unemployed 1,2,3,4
Male 29 IT 1,2,4
Male 28 Hospital lab assistant (phd+masters qualified) 1,2,3,4
Male 28 Financial Administration 2,4
Female 26 Unemployed due to health 4
Female 28 Government 3

Editions

Group 1 3.5e (Mystara)
Group 2 4e (KotS and other published wotc 4e)
Group 3 3.5e (Pathfinder rise of runelords)
Group 4 4e (Planescape/Homebrew one shot from a former 3.5 game)

 

[johnmarron]

My current group is fairly recently formed. The first four people listed below have been playing together for about 1 year, and the next 3 have joined in the last 3 months. All ages (besides my own...) are estimates.

M, 44, Archaeologist
M, 40, RPG publisher
M, 43, Hypnotherapist
M, 28, IT
M, 26, Teacher
M, 23, Graphic Designer
M, 23, Student

We're playing D&D 4E and are thoroughly enjoying it, although we play a wide variety of RPGs. For me, this is the first time I've played any version of D&D since 1E in 1982 (26 years ago!)

John

 

[JediSoth]

How long has your group been playing together?
Players have come and gone. I've known some of my players for nearly 10 years, other for just over a year. The core group has been together for about 5-6 years now.

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?
male, mid-30s, catalog production manager/writer/graphic designer (that's me, the GM! )
male, mid-40s, engineer
male, mid-30s, chemist
female, mid-30s, travel call center QC
male, early-20s, FedEx hub guy
male, early-30s, used to be retail, not sure currently

What edition are you playing?
While we've strayed to Star Wars d20 and Mutants & Masterminds, we mostly play D&D 3.5 with some elements of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. We may switch wholly to AE with some elements of 3.5 when the next campaign starts next month.

 

[doctorhook]

How long has your group been together?

About 16 months now, growing from four people then to eight people now.
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Who's in your group?

Myself (DM), my younger sister, our cousin (who's my sister's age), and a group of their friends.

• 22 Male Undergraduate student (Me)
• 17 Female high school senior
• 17 Male high school senior
• 17 Male high school senior
• 18 Male undergraduate student
• 18 Female undergraduate student
• 18 Male undergraduate student
• 18 Male undergraduate student

What are you playing?

4E. H-Series + official sidetreks. (Previously, this group played the DD-Series in 3.5E.)
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[The Little Raven]

How long has your group been playing together?

What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group?

A - 26, Male, Reinsurance Client Relations Manager; 20 years total play; 14 years play with B, C; 10 years play with D; 2 years play with E, F
B - 26, Male, Legal Secretary; 20 years total play with C; 14 years play with A; 6 years play with D; 2 years play with E, F
C - 26, Female, Mother and part-time Customer Service; 20 years total play with B; 14 years play with A; 6 years play with D; 2 years play with E, F
D - 27, Male, Webmaster; 10 years total play with A; 6 years play with B, C; 2 years play with E, F
E - 28, Female, Medical Student and part-time Data Entry; 2 years total play with A, B, C, D, F
F - 29, Male, Operations and Sales Manager; 8 years total play; 2 years play with A, B, C, D, E

What edition are you playing?

4th Edition.

 

[Gothmog]

I currently have two groups, although group 1 meets much less often nowdays due to us living in several different cities.

Group 1
Gaming together since 1990
Consists of:
male 34, PhD in Neuroscience, professor at a university (me)
male 34, BA in engineering, works for Boeing
female 33, BA in computer networking, works for AG Edwards
female 32, working on MS in cognitive neuroscience (my sister)
male 32, BA in Philosophy and English, publicist for Bass Pro Shops
female 31, BA in Social Science, works as a case worker for the state
male 32, BA in History, works for Chase

This group has played D&D 2e, 3e, 3.5, homebrew systems, Savage Worlds, WHFRP2, Deadlands, and 4e. We're loving 4e, and not going back to earlier editions of D&D (in fact, even mentioning 3.x D&D draws boos and hisses from them). We meet about once per 5-6 weeks for a weekend of gaming at one of our houses (about 24-30 hours of total gaming).


Group 2
Gaming together for about 6 months
Consists of:
male 34, PhD in Neuroscience, professor at a university (me)
male 37, part owner of FLGS
male 37, works as a publicist for Bass Pro Shops (different guy than the one above)
male 25, beef rancher
male 26, works at FLGS
male 30, works at FLGS

This group is playing 4e D&D, Spycraft 2.0, Savage Worlds Star Wars, and Savage Worlds Deadlands. We have a rotating schedule, so we all get a chance to play. We meet once per week for about 4-6 hours.