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

[ZombieButch]

Hanging out and socializing with my friends is a big part of the appeal for me. I have zero interest in playing online in any form.

 

[Agamon]

I prefer tabletop for rollplaying and PbPs for roleplaying (not that there's not a lot of overlap there, but each medium has it's benefits and drawbacks).

 

[Abe.ebA]

Tabletop for me. A large part of my fun comes from hanging out with people, eating munchies, the rattle of the dice, and poorly drawn maps under a scattering of minis and random bit tokens on the battlemat. I'd play online if I could find a game that looked good because, as others have said, when you can't get enough to fill the craving you'll take anything you can get, but I vastly prefer in-person.

 

[Rika]

Tabletop only, though my current group has an online component for character interaction online during breaks from game. It's mainly used to develop character relationships and backgrounds.

 

[Hussar]

While all my gaming is now online through chat, that is due to geography, not desire. However, I have discovered that online gaming has it's good parts as well, so, I put myself in the middle as having no strong preference.

 

[Aaron L]

I tried playing online once. Didnt like it. Didnt like it at all. I wont do it again.

 

[DeBracy]

I voted "strongly prefer tabletop". I've played some online (IRC) but that was some years ago now and... well, I won't say I'll never do it again but the odds are very low. I like using my voice and body language when I play/GM and that naturally places me at the table (or in the forest with the other nutty LARPers).

 

[Aesthetic Monk]

I think it'll always be tabletop, but I'm going to start what is expected to be a *long* Call of Cthulhu pbp here this month, which'll be my first foray into pbp. We'll see how it goes. I think there are potential strengths in character development there, and it might work better for a game like CoC with comparatively little combat (and quicker and more abstract combat at that) than it would for, say, D&D 3.5.

 

[sniffles]

I guess it's wrong in a way for me to vote, since I've never actually played online, but I think I would prefer tabletop because I like to play with people I can trust. Unless I only played online with people I already knew I wouldn't feel I could trust them. But I might be willing to play online if one of my friends moved away and that was the only way I could roleplay with that person. So I voted for "strongly prefer tabletop".

 

[Mycanid]

STRONGLY Prefer tabletop gaming in person. Face to face creates a dynamic that you just cannot get over the 'net IMHO.