Where do you prefer to do your roleplaying? (Online vs. Tabletop)

[The Lost Muse]

I play online when I have to and f2f when I can.

 

[dren]

Tabletop: it's about friends and dice for me, if either of these are not there, I lose interest very quickly.

 

[Nomad4life]

Tabletop only. No kids, pets, drugs, or cell phones.

Beer is fine, but if you “fall asleep” your character is then under the control of whoever wants a mobile hit-point sponge/mule that game.

Sadly, in college, I once had to also make a “no pr0n at the table either!” rule. But we don’t game with that guy anymore, so it hasn’t been a problem since.

I’ve got several other rules, all written down (mostly common sense stuff.) Tabletop clearly has its problems... But I wouldn’t want to game any other way!

 

[kenobi65]

I play online quite a bit (via chat, not PBP), and, while I usually find it reasonably enjoyable, I do prefer face-to-face.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

I certainly prefer tabletop, but I'll play pbp.

 

[Kvantum]

I don't like pbp, pbem, pbm, or anysuch non-instantaneous feedback form of rp. I'll play in an online game if that's all I can get, but my vast preference will always be face to face.

 

[2WS-Steve]

I prefer in person -- but you go long enough without a game and, believe me, you'll play it by carrier pigeon if you have to.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

I put both.

I suppose I do like face to face, but it is hard to get a game together, and online the game is aways waiting, even if it is slow. Tehy both kind of make up for the weaknesses of each other.

 

[Glyfair]

With all the times I've seen comments about "the internet being the future of roleplaying" I'm suprised that their aren't more votes in the online direction. I still expected it to be a minority, but I thought there would be some support in that direction.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

I traditionally prefer tabletop gaming, but am only fairly recently starting to get involved in some on-line games, and am starting to see some of the advantages of it...

So... I marked strongly prefer tabletop, but I suspect that a lot of the other strongly prefer votes might include some growing sense of the usefulness and fun to be had in on-line gaming (which is different from that to be found in tabletop gaming, for sure).

Later
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