Who do you game with?

[ergeheilalt]

I game a lot online and have met a whole boatload of people through doing so. Most of them I consider friends, with only a few exceptions being those who I didn't get to know or didn't really like. The longest running online game I play in has be truckin' along for over three years and it takes forever to get the game started while we all blather about stuff, just like my friends and I do when we play table top.

Erge

 

[shaylon]

I put a mix of all three.

In my two groups I have cow-workers(dilbertism), friends, and complete strangers who are slowly becoming friends. At least to me they are. Maybe they hate me. Oh gosh this thread is giving me a complex!

-Shay

 

[TerraDave]

I have been lucky. Game with friends met outside of gaming...though in the PbP game I don't know them all so well, but have known the DM of that for about 20 years, and met most of the players before it started.

EDIT: though I have met at least one good friend after they joined a group I was DMing, who was friends on friends in that group, so more good luck.

 

[Henry]

My original gaming group were relatives. I gamed basic D&D with them a couple of times.

My second group I met through a comic book shop, and we lasted a few years before going separate ways.

My third group, the group I gamed with in high school, I met through school, and they stayed solid friends (even in my wedding party!) for years before the majority moved away, got jobs, or started families.

I currently game with people I met from work years ago, who became friends through said gaming. The rest of my group, I met through these friends, by gaming with them, and the rest range anywhere from good friends to acquaintences. In no case am I regularly gaming with total strangers, and in no case do I game twice with someone who either creeps me out or whom I just do not mesh with. I guess I'm really lucky.

 

[Wombat]

In my current game group, two I knew as friends prior to the game, one I met at a coffeeshop where I used to take my work breaks, and three I met through gamestores/gaming internet chat rooms.

Nice mix.

 

[Jdvn1]

I don't limit my groups. I've played with friends, friends gotten through gaming, completely strangers, people met at game shops... why wouldn't you?

 

[Greylock]

I was introduced to the folks I game with by a childhood friend. They met through gaming circles themselves, I believe. So, gamers coming together to game who became damned good friends is how I'd put it. And the grand tradition of Scouting put me and my childhood bro' together.

 

[Desdichado]

Because I moved over 1400 miles almost five years ago, I had to find a group from scratch. At that time, it was random people -- met through an ad in a game store. While that wasn't actually a bad experience, I ended up helping to cobble together a group of folks that my wife overheard talking about D&D at church (between meetings!) and folks that I met here on ENWorld.

They're certainly not random people, though -- I get along fabulously with my group, and I think we've become pretty good friends. But we met because we had gaming in common first and became friends later, not the other way around. On the other hand, when I was still living in Texas, it was the other way around -- I gamed with people who were already my friends and I later discovered were interested in gaming.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't limit my groups. I've played with friends, friends gotten through gaming, completely strangers, people met at game shops... why wouldn't you?

Why wouldn't you? It doesn't take long gaming with a group of real rejects to answer that question. I've never actually had to do so, but I still notice a very marked difference between my first Detroit game group, which were fine people, but with whom I didn't click (with all of them, anyway) and my group now. I'll game once or twice with anyone, but as for who's in my regular gaming group, I'm only interested in folks that either I'm already friends with, or with whom I obviously get along well enough that we can become such.

 

[the Jester]

I game with friends, almost all of whom I met through gaming and are now years-long, multi-city good friends.