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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 1667530" data-attributes="member: 18832">The majority of the games I play in involve members of my university's gaming and geek culture group (SUTEKH at the University of Sydney), the core members of which form a large social circle anyway, so like many here I'd still be hanging out with people even if we didn't play together - and, naturally, there are some people in the circle with whom I'm not friends and yet still play with, or who I don't play with but consider good friends.We tend to have large games - three of the last four D&D games I played in with this group all had eight players, not including the DM, at one point or another. They also tend to last a long time - Planescape lasted two and a half years, Wheel of Time has been running for two years, and a homebrew game played roughly weekly for six months.Recently, I've joined Hong's fortnightly game, to which I was invited purely because we know each other from rec.games.frp.dnd and, earlier, soc.religion.kibology. It's the first time I've played with an established group I'm not familiar with; I'm no stranger to joining games midcampaign (the homebrew game mentioned above is the first game I was in from the start since Third Edition came out), but I've never done it with people I don't know before.I don't tend to go to gaming conventions precisely because I like to play with people I know with gaming styles I like; I'm sensitive to the gaming quirks of others. I get a great deal of pleasure from playing with people whose styles I enjoy (even if and probably because they differ from my own), but conversely playing with people whose style I dislike irritates me more than most. So it's a very new experience for me to play with people I don't know, but I'm familiar enough with Hong's style as a DM from his posts to rec.games.frp.dnd, as well as from his description of the group's style when he pitched the game to me, that I felt comfortable joining in.</blockquote>

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