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How often do you play?
« on: November 13, 2008, 06:31:46 PM »
How often do you actually play RPGs?

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2008, 06:38:51 PM »
Currently DMing one game per week, and just started playing in another once a week, so more than once a week for the time being. :D
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2008, 07:30:48 PM »
Haven't played a game since...well, probably July.

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2008, 07:54:42 PM »
I generally run two games every week. Sometimes, I run a third, if there are enough people and enough time.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2008, 11:30:23 PM »
Right now, the only campaign I'm running is my pbp, which meets about once every blue moon in person (even though we live less than a mile from one another.)

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2008, 06:13:27 AM »
The only players I know of IRL are one country over. Mite tricky to get a RL game, my entire fix comes from pbps.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2008, 03:08:27 PM »
I run a game for a group that thanks to geography and work schedules can only get together about once a month if we're lucky.  I also play in a group that meets about once a month.  So if I'm lucky I'm gaming once every two weeks.

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2008, 03:10:39 PM »
I only get to play once a month.... it's so sad.... (well, in part, because there is a guy that kinda annoys me with his shenanigans on Stormwind Fallacy, but meh...)

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2008, 03:15:10 PM »
Wow, I count myself lucky then, getting to play once a week (usually) :)
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2008, 04:45:39 PM »
School causes us to play less than once a month, sadly.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2008, 01:49:51 AM »
It used to be once a week, but we're on a hiatus (that will continue until after my finals). I am playing in a D&D 4e game tomorrow, though, after a study session.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2008, 02:19:08 AM »
Due to the intervention of Real Life (tm), my group tends to meet 3 times per month in our attempts to maintain a weekly schedule.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2008, 01:08:16 PM »
I used to play, 3 years ago, but my group disband and now I only play PbP
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2008, 01:13:20 PM »
Sadly, my personal group has been a very much off-and-on basis since I removed two players for endless cheating and general rudeness. We did have a game running regularly for well over a year, but it was a small group (just four of us, total) and one of our players left to pursue a career in another city, leaving us with just too few people to really play a decent game. We're not actively looking for a new player, either - we got kinda burnt out on searching last time (given how many people we went through to find one player we could stand) and so we're just... on an indefinite hiatus. Sad, since I'd love to play/run a game again.

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2008, 05:49:59 PM »
Sadly, my personal group has been a very much off-and-on basis since I removed two players for endless cheating and general rudeness. We did have a game running regularly for well over a year, but it was a small group (just four of us, total) and one of our players left to pursue a career in another city, leaving us with just too few people to really play a decent game. We're not actively looking for a new player, either - we got kinda burnt out on searching last time (given how many people we went through to find one player we could stand) and so we're just... on an indefinite hiatus. Sad, since I'd love to play/run a game again.

1) There are a number of newer games that work well with less people.  burning wheel/burning empires for example.
2) Savage worlds and 4E work with multi character play
3) you could play other tabletop games and run one shots

One of the things that draws in people is to have an ongoing game.  We struggled to get a game going for years and finally said screw it and just played with three people(as in me, Zeke and Meg).  The rest of the group came together because we already had a game going and people joined up with it.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2008, 02:43:48 AM »
I've been DMing weekly for just over a year now (with the occasional week off, hiatus, or semi-weekly session), but we're coming to the end of the campaign. I was playing in a second weekly game for awhile, as well, but that one folded.

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2008, 09:50:55 PM »
I play once a week with AC.

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2008, 02:16:16 AM »
1) There are a number of newer games that work well with less people.  burning wheel/burning empires for example.
2) Savage worlds and 4E work with multi character play
3) you could play other tabletop games and run one shots

One of the things that draws in people is to have an ongoing game.  We struggled to get a game going for years and finally said screw it and just played with three people(as in me, Zeke and Meg).  The rest of the group came together because we already had a game going and people joined up with it.
I appreciate the advice, but sadly it won't work too well with my group. (Teaching a new game of any kind to my group can be like pulling teeth, and all of us dislike running multiple characters or playing one-shots.)

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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2008, 03:00:54 AM »
Twice a year, these days.  Not too often.
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Re: How often do you play?
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2008, 08:37:50 AM »
Once a week, barring exceptions. Several games through each other, though.