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General Category => RPGs => : Kemlin Dragos March 27, 2013, 03:15:51 AM
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I've been wondering this for a while.
How many of you listeners in the Forum actually get to game on a regular basis?
I never ever get to play. My entire gaming career is three games of D&D 4th Ed. in a homebrew setting that I wrote and Dm'ed which was ill fated from the start.
I devour sourcebooks and love to write settings and scenarios, but can never find many people that have the time or the inclination to play. Actual Plays and sourcebooks are as close as i get actually rolling dice.
Anyone else out there in the same boat? Or is my life truly that sad?
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I play every other week with the same group of Grognards. Usually something GURPS based
And on top of that I squeeze a pickup game in once in a blue moon. Last few times were Cthulu and Dogs in the Vineyard.
But given that I'm moving, this will change.
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I've at last gotten into a game of Pathfinder with people who don't want to play un-famous games. But I am having fun playing the worst cleric ever.
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I play every other week with the same group of Grognards. Usually something GURPS based
And on top of that I squeeze a pickup game in once in a blue moon. Last few times were Cthulu and Dogs in the Vineyard.
But given that I'm moving, this will change.
i'm imagining you drinking TAB and Hawkwind & Led Zepplin playing in the background :3
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I play every other week with the same group of Grognards. Usually something GURPS based
And on top of that I squeeze a pickup game in once in a blue moon. Last few times were Cthulu and Dogs in the Vineyard.
But given that I'm moving, this will change.
i'm imagining you drinking TAB and Hawkwind & Led Zepplin playing in the background :3
Nah. No TAB, we have been shifting to healthy in the last few years. The regular DM has gone from 140kg down to 85kg.
And we don't play Zepplin. We don't play any music. We take our game SERIOUSLY! ;D
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I run 3 to 4 games a week. Sometimes I get a chance to play; not often.
This started about... three years ago. I moved and happened to end up near enough to a game store, which had open gaming space.
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I've been GMing a game for my regular group every week for the past two years. I think I may have actually played in a game last year...I think.
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After years of on and off playing star wars, and DnD 3.5, I've started running games for my group, after the first one they couldn't get enough (apparently my niche in our gaming group is investigation and horror). I now have a Modern D20 paranormal investigation game (think call of Cthulhu and Supernatural but also my own imagination running the show), a Cthulhu d20 game set in the 1920's of the same universe as the modern game, and I shall be starting a Wild Talents game set in a parallel comic-verse of the modern game.
Usually try to run the Modern game every Saturday or when-ever someone else doesn't want to GM (they really like the paranormal games and any other games have taken a back seat recently). The two friends who are in the 1920s game actually came to me wanting me to run it as I had the book and they love wearing suits and fedoras (they will on occasion arrive at our games dressed for the occasion XD), wild talents game will probably be the same schedule as the 1920s game (whenever during the week starting at 1 in the morning.)
...I think that's all of 'em... oh and I play in a Monsters game over skype every other week.
So I guess I'm at 4 games now, 6 if you include the games that don't usually get a lot of love.
And I believe all this kicked in during the fall of 2012.
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I've got a weekly Tuesday game.(Used to be Wednesday and used to be Wild Talents now It's Tuesday 3.5)
A bimonthly (thats twice a month for those of you who think bi monthly means every other month. 'MURICA!) Sunday game that I just joined.
Then a friend of mine comes into town to play a long long long running game that we play one session every few months.
So I play fairly often.
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I have forced my wife and one of her friends into a couple of nWoD games. Apart from that, I haven't played anything since high school. It has made me seriously reconsider the quality of my friends. >:(
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I have forced my wife and one of her friends into a couple of nWoD games. Apart from that, I haven't played anything since high school. It has made me seriously reconsider the quality of my friends. >:(
This thread is starting to depress me.
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I have a regular group of like minded Gamers who get together weekly to play whatever. We have a number of GMs and an above average number of players (6-8) so things can get a little tiresome when it gets to combat. At the moment we are continuing our long awaited campaign of SLA Industries, all the while trying to skirt away from one of our players doing his best to get us to play Shadowrun 3rd ed again. Thankfully we cycle GM's and systems to try and keep things fresh when current GM starts to get tired. So far we've had instances of Fear Itself, Call of Cthulhu (half of Masks of Nyarlathotep until the players got totally lost and eaten by the Bloated lady), Dnd 4th ed (limited due to edition wars), Shadowrun (ugh) and A great campaign of Warhammer Fantasy (the Fantasy flight edition).
I'm waiting for Base raiders to drop so I can roll out my Sonic powered Opera inspired Superhero Vobrato!
I may complain a lot about them but I wouldn't replace these guys for the world.
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Sounds nice to have multiple GM's.
We have 2 in my current gaming group one of which being me.
I usually run things but it's nice to have someone to switch with. I generally like to do both roles equally but you guys sound like you've got a good system worked out.
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I'm fighting a losing scheduling battle to run a game of Spirit of the Century with my old group.
Sometime when school and work and life aren't so insane, I'll actually run that bet game for the forums folks.
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At some point my group played 8 games a week. I currently run or play in 3 or 4 every week.
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Hey Kemlin... http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php/topic,1661.0.html ... ahem *cough cough* :-X
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I don't really get to play anymore. I ran some Deathwatch games over Skype a while back, and played in a few other games of 4E, Rogue Trader, Monsters, and Hunter. It's been about two years, though.
I still devour RPG books, and I've written a bunch of scenarios, most recently one for Old School Hack to play with my kids, but I haven't had time to get them interested in it.
Probably the most ridiculous thing I wrote was a Mouse Guard game that revolved around a group of mouse cultists making sacrifices to Coddowalshagoth.
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My group usually tries to play at least a game a week, but sometimes if we're running a one-shot that goes long we'll game multiple nights in a row. We've played mostly oWoD Mage since high school, but we've gotten into some different games in the past few years, like Call of Cthulhu, Eclipse Phase and Fiasco. We've also had a few good sessions of Durance, which is another GM-less game by Jason Morningstar. As of right now, we've got my friend Alex's yearlong Eclipse Phase campaign, an oWoD Mage chronicle that the Storyteller never seems to have time to run, and the occasional one-shot with rotating GM duties.
I've been hoping to start up a campaign, as I've not GMed regularly in quite some time, but I've had a hard time nailing down ideas beyond the cursory planning stages. I was originally hoping to run Wild Talents: Progenitor, but I've always felt uncomfortable with running superhero games, as I'm not nearly as into comics as some of my friends are.
For now, I enjoy playing.
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I don't really get to play anymore. I ran some Deathwatch games over Skype a while back, and played in a few other games of 4E, Rogue Trader, Monsters, and Hunter. It's been about two years, though.
I still devour RPG books, and I've written a bunch of scenarios, most recently one for Old School Hack to play with my kids, but I haven't had time to get them interested in it.
Probably the most ridiculous thing I wrote was a Mouse Guard game that revolved around a group of mouse cultists making sacrifices to Coddowalshagoth.
Hey, funny story. My younger brother is listening to the old Nerdbound recordings of the Deathwatch games you and I ran to get ready for his own Deathwatch game at GenCon.
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Hey Kemlin... http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php/topic,1661.0.html ... ahem *cough cough* :-X
@Capitalocracy I really considered signing up for that, but unfortunately I am a restaurant manager, so I work almost every weekend and my days and nights off fluctuate on a week to week basis. I would really love to play some Eclipse Phase, but it would be unfair for me to join a Skype game that I couldn't commit to. Sorry, sounded like fun. :-\.
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Well, right now I've pinned down a schedule for three players of Friday at 12 pm Pacific, and we've definitely got room for one more. I know what it's like having an irregular schedule like that, but the offer's there.
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I can't believe we've made it this far without referencing Shooting across the room.
Or "Oh Hai Ross!" "Oh Hai Cody!"
You are my favorite customer.
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I can't believe we've made it this far without referencing Shooting across the room.
Or "Oh Hai Ross!" "Oh Hai Cody!"
You are my favorite customer.
wrong thread?
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Sho nuff blood...
Apparently I had two tabs open and replied to the wrong one....
Herp
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Hey, funny story. My younger brother is listening to the old Nerdbound recordings of the Deathwatch games you and I ran to get ready for his own Deathwatch game at GenCon.
Tell him to ensure that any badass friendly NPC needs to have a good supply of one-liners.
Can he do voices? I still wish I could do voices.
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I try to play every Thursday with a group of friends, we alternate between a game that I run and a game run by another member of the group, playing the same game every other week. I joined this group in 2007 or so but most of them have been playing together on Thursdays since the mid-90's. Having kids makes getting a group together very hard.
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Haven't played in like a year or two. Sad times...
:'(
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Ran Pathfinder for about a year. I wanted to play for a change. Group broke up, hah.
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Luckily play on a weekly basis.
One game of Call of Cthulhu, Beyond Mountains of Madness, as a player.
And every other week, I am running my Ars Modernica campaign.
Far is the time of Thursday-Friday-Saturday nights games...
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I'm the Gm for the skype games that
Review Cultist
and
Flawless
are in. Games are every other week on opposite weeks.
So it works out for me as a 1 game a week
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Play once every two weeks if I'm lucky. Use to play once every week at the very least. That pesky bastard "real life" eats up my gaming time.
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I run two Pathfinder games: one for my two brothers over Ventrillo (we're supposed to play every week, but it's been about 3 weeks since our last session), and another one for some friends, who all have weird work schedules. That one we last played in February, and our next one is scheduled for May 18. Every once in a while, I'll go play Pathfinder Society ORganized Play at a nearby game store, to scratch my character-playing itch.
My older brother is starting up a Vampire the Masquerade game. So far I've made a character, but we haven't played yet.
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Been Gm-ing for the last one and a half year, but recently got to play. We try to get in a session per week.
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I run two Pathfinder games: one for my two brothers over Ventrillo (we're supposed to play every week, but it's been about 3 weeks since our last session), and another one for some friends, who all have weird work schedules. That one we last played in February, and our next one is scheduled for May 18. Every once in a while, I'll go play Pathfinder Society ORganized Play at a nearby game store, to scratch my character-playing itch.
My older brother is starting up a Vampire the Masquerade game. So far I've made a character, but we haven't played yet.
How is Vent for running games? I liked it when I used to play a lot of D2 back in the day.
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Can't speak for him but I used to play D&D 4th Ed on Maptools and with Ventrilo for communications, it was a pretty god set up. Vent is very clear, and I generally prefer using a Push to Talk key when speaking to people over the internet.
Although what really made the campaign was Maptools, the GM coded the D&D 4th ed rules into it and went all out with maps and tokens. The combat was quick and really fun.
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For the last several months I've been playing Black Crusade and D&D 4e once a week and, running a Scion game.
Before that I was running a Pathfinder and a Old World of Darkness game once a week.
I'm usually not without a game though most of the time I'm running.
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I manage to run at least 1 game a week, currently it's a Dark Heresy investigation based game but a player in the group has finally stepped up and started running an Eclipse phase game.
Oh and occasionally I get to join in on a Star Wars Sith campaign but work tends to interfere with me getting to that one - all hail Cilghal, the Mon Calamari Sith Lord!
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been playing mostly weekly in an online Skype/roll20 game of Vampire: The Requiem. Been going pretty well.
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I usually GM a weekly Monsters game (or Fiasco when I'm too busy to prepare something), but that's kind of taken a backseat after getting a second job. One of the players stepped up, though, and is running a Dogs in the Vineyard game, and I'm convincing another to start up a D&D campaign. If we do that, I'll probably pick up my campaign again and have us set up a round robin thing with three separate systems. Gives me enough time to prepare a good session and also I get to play in two games! I am excite.
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I've got a weekly game, it's mostly Pathfinder but I'm running Eclipse Phase now, it's funny because one of the dudes is an aspiring sci-fi author and is digging the shit out of the game, the other player is having a bit of future shock.