What is your relationship with your gaming group?

[Felon]

KarensDad - Just to punt this back to you. Again, you presume to speak for the majority when you say that people game to kibbitz with their friends. One, that presumes that you are playing with friends. That hasn't been true for me in decades. The people I game with are my gaming friends. I only see them at game time and have never really socialized outside of the game with most of these people.

Hussar's post brings to mind something I've come to take for granted as I grow older--namely, that I play with people whose company I enjoy. Friends, I daresay.

Not that it was always that way. As a punk kid, I'd play three times a week with people whom my relationship could best be described as "open contempt". Such gamers were nothing more than warm bodies that filled out a requisite number, and whose presence I begrudgingly paid for with a share of loot and XP.

Which relationship is more common, I wonder? What do you think.

Use your best judgment here. Don't fixate on individual relationships--it's natural that one would bond with some players more than others--but rather try to sum up how you would define your overall gaming experience.



EDIT--Can't add the poll due to unforseen 10 minute limit. Repost, I guess.

 

[Taed]

When I was a teenager, I played D&D/Traveller/boardgames with a group of friends for many years. We generally enjoyed it, but there was definitely a "for lack of anything better to do" aspect. If not for the DM who was really into that stuff, we probably would not have played. I was the only one who even attempted to GM anything (TSR's spy game, whose name I forget), and it didn't go so well.

Now, 25 years later, my young son got into D&D through a few D&D Game Days that we went to (thanks, WoTC). So, I became a DM two months back and run a weekly game for him and a bunch of folks (most in their early 20s, 20 years younger than me) at my comic book store. Other than my son, I didn't know any of them prior to the first D&D session. Nonetheless, we're having a good time, and only one player approaches troublesome.

 

[Dice4Hire]

In before the lock deletion.

Another thread has the poll.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/276293-whats-your-relationship-your-fellow-gamers.html