If by this you mean immature fart joke types, I’m with you. If you mean that you won’t think of playing with college students, you’ll probably be looking for a long time. I’m the youngest in our group. 25, 26, 27, 27 and 30. I’m the only one not in college right now.
Free your mind.
That said, I’m in a group here in Lawrence/Kansas City. We play once or twice a week for 8-12 hours. I love it. We play tonight. yay.
However, Ardred and I are thinking of moving and would love to set up a group in Corvallis, Oregon in the next few years.
I’ve been an avid Tabletop Gamer and Roleplayer while I was still living in Italy (right through the local “D&D is Satanic” phase, and that was no fun - but I digress).
Since I moved to the UK I haven’t been involved with gaming, but boy, how I’d like to start again now. I even bought a couple of board games (Talisman 3rd ed and Settlers of Cataan Card Game), so I could organize something with the guys at the University. Not much luck up to now.
Fart jokes? I can handle fart jokes, FilmGeek. I just don’t want to be the only one in the group over 25. My grandmother could go back to college (though I don’t know why she’d want to–she got her M.Arch.–or whatever they called it back then–during WWII) but that wouldn’t make her a kid. (Isaid nothing about college students in general.)
Your group sounds perfect, apart from location. (But are you sure none of that group is really in Grad School?)
I played Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40K up until I was 18 when I got fed up with the group I went to and GW’s prices and new rules. I liked having diversity in my army (to paint and to play with), but the new rules didn’t encourage this.
I played Bloodbowl at this group, and I also continued at university for a while, but unfortunatly the uni group were hardcore RPGers and took it waaay too seriously (it’s Bloodbowl, taking it seriuosly should be banned!). Bloodbowl is the only game I think I would take up again, if I could find a group willing to play.
I play Champions 5th edition twice a week with a fairly mature gaming group. We’ve actually got four different campaigns running, each of which runs once every other week. I run two of the campaigns - one being a fairly standard modern-day superhero campaign, the other being an experimental sci-fi campaign.
I’ve actually been tabletop gaming fairly consistently for over 10 years. My wife got me into the game system - we met at a tabletop RPG session. She doesn’t do the tabletop games anymore due to health problems. Instead, she runs a MUSH (online text-based gaming environment) with 5th edition Hero System rules.
I game in central NJ, Monday and Wednesday evenings. And as it looks like one of my players will have to move to Texas next week, I’ve got an opening in both games I run.
I haven’t played in years, but a fellow Heroclix player is going to see if I can get into his D&D game.
I’ve been trying off and on since 1979 to get someone to play Call of Cthulhu with me. I guess a lot of gamers don’t like the idea that their beloved PCs are dooomed to eventual death and/or insanity.
I’m sort of an RPG reservist. One weekend a month, if I’m lucky, I get to game. I know lots of people who love to play, we just can’t seem to get more than two of us who are free to play at the same time. Mostly, we just play various versions of d20 these days: D&D predominently, some Star Wars, and we’re just getting into d20 Modern. We’re also always talking about doing Rifts with d20 rules, and have worked out most of the rules kinks for the conversion, but we just haven’t gotten around to actually doing it yet.
So, if anyone in the California Bay Area is interested in role-playing sporadically with little-to-no continuity between sessions, drop me an e-mail. If anyone’s looking for a new player for just about any system (I’ve played more than a few in my time, and am a quick study when it comes to new rules) I’d be interested in that, too.
I play D&D 3.0 on a weekly basis, with a group of 4 others (including the DM). The game has been running about two years now, although I’ve been in it for less than half a year. Also when time and location permits we’ve got a game of GURPS running, with more or less the same people as the D&D game (one person from D&D doesn’t play GURPS, and vice versa), which I’m GMing.
Used to play Warhammer as well, but gave that up long ago.
I first got into D&D back in elementary school. As the Hobbit had been of my favorite books since preschool, it was a natural step. Mom and Dad were supportive and managed to find all kinds of great book, miniatures etc at yard sales.
I was with a few groups in elementary school, then was groupless for a while.
Back in college, I joined the rpg club. At the opening of an RPG shop, I met a new group. They introduced me into a marvelous LARP loosely based on D&D and called Darkon. Darkon was based in Maryland and it took hours to get to each event. But, it was a lot of fun. Then one group of LARPers took over and ruined it.
The folks from college graduated and moved away.
The group that introduced me to Darkon, got married and moved. We used to be able to have a session every week. Now, we can only get together every few months.
Luckily, at a Philly Dopefest, I got to join a new group (the one Meros mentioned)
I have never tried 3rd ed D&D, and from what I’ve read of it, I don’t want to. I like many of the ideas (Dragon Disciples, Grey Masters) but dislike most of the rule and mechanics changes.
I love a good Vamp-Masquerade game.
I have some of the Werewolf books but have never gotten a chance to play.
Ditto Mage.
As an HPL fan, I also want to try Call of Cthulhu.
AndrewL, Brainiac4, how do the new Champions rules look? I restrained myself from buying 1200 pages of rule books when the new system came out, because the last time I tried to play Champions, I couldn’t convince half the players to learn the game system. It looks like they’re kind of supporting it somewhat; still no Fantasy Hero modules, though, right?
I’ll chose option “B”. I live in Denver, CO, and have played on and off, but the latest group seems to have fizzled, and lately, I’ve been itching to play again. If anyone around here is interested, let me know.
They clarified and reworded a lot of the powers and rules. Some powers (notably Shapeshift) got a lot more expensive, but a lot more flexible. Some powers became redundant and were reworded as modified versions of other powers (Regeneration is now bought as Healing with certain limitations applied). Mostly things are explained a lot better, clarifying a lot of rules questions. Overall I think it’s an improvement.
One thing 5th Edition lacks is any sample characters or campaign source material. You have to buy modules for that.
Oh, and they made the books hold together now. Unlike the 4th edition hardcovers which started shedding pages the moment you opened them, the 5th ed books are remarkably sturdy. Rumor has it that testing of the bindings involved putting the prototype books in clothes dryers for half an hour.
In the interest of filling up time on an otherwise unbusy work day, and partially to brag, what games have people played/run/owned?
For me, I’ve played :
AD&D 1st Ed.; AD&D 2nd Ed. (both with and without Player’s Option); D&D 3rd Ed.; D&D Basic (Rules Cyclopedia Edition); Marvel Super Heroes (the TSR one); Gamma World (not sure of the edition); Star Wars (d20); Spycraft (d20); Silver Age Sentinels (d20 and Tri-Stat); Tri-Stat/Big Eyes Small Mouth; Hackmaster; Middle-Earth Roleplaying System; Rifts/Heroes Unlimited; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Call of Cthulhu (Original Vers.); Elfquest; Fading Suns; Hero/Champions 5th; Ironclaw; Torg; GURPS; Star Wars (d6); DC Universe (d6 Legend); DC Heroes (Mayfair); Deadlands (Original); In Nomine; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Vampire (Dark Ages and Masquerade); Werewolf; Mage (sorta - got through character creation, but the campaign was stillborn); Star Trek (Last Unicorn’s System).
Whew. I think that’s it.
I’ve run : AD&D 2nd Ed.; D&D 3rd; D&D Basic; Marvel Super Heroes; Spycraft (d20); Call of Cthulhu (d20); Silver Age Sentinels (d20); Hackmaster; Hero/Champions 5th; GURPS; DC Heroes(Mayfair).
I’ll do the ‘own’ list from home, cause I know I’d forget stuff.
Two 3.0 D&D games, two 3.5 games. I run one of the 3.5 games weekly (more or less). I’ve also run a bit of d20 Modern and Darwin’s World, only on my husband. I would love to run some Paranoia when the new edition comes out, but none of my group is interested in anything but D&D.
Angel Of the Lord, send me an email if you want to possibly hook up.
I’m currently running in the Aurora, Illinois area, one monthly Champions game (that’s sort-of limping), One seventh sea game (which I love to death), and playing in one weekly D&D game.
Online I run a weekly (chatroom) 7th sea game, a daily PBEM solo 7th sea game (which may meet its end in approximately one hour… A long, depressing story), and I’ll probably soon be booted off of AndrewL’s Champions MUSH as staff.
My major weakness as a GM- if I really get into a game, I expect my players to put at least a similar ammount of enthusiasm / effort into it. One of my last 7th sea games ended abruptly one night when 2/3 the players decided they just would rather play with remote-controlled cars on the table than actually play the game. Frustrated me- I even put up that night’s play to a vote (which one of the more spineless players insisted be a secret ballot). After my game ‘lost’ the vote, I sent out an email saying the campaign was over (one player vociferiously objected, which started the PBEM… And now, after a year and a half, said player seems to be petering out. We’re discussing it today.)
Wow… That got long. Okay, well, you know the drill. I GM way too much, I play way too little. Ta da.
I also have been having the problem of running too much and playing too little - I just keep having campaign ideas that i must run, and it takes up a lot of my time…
I’ve got a smaller battlemat than that 8’x6’ … and less miniatures, but I keep painting more…