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Post Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:28 am 
 

For me, at least, I was away from the table during the 3e and 4e years. The old-school vibe and positive reviews helped bring me back. I was curious about it, tried it out, found it to have a lot of the qualities I loved about 1e and 2e, and kind of just kept going with it. It's a fun edition. That said, I've been itching to play basic D&D again so I might have to dig out my old box sets. :)


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:18 am 
 

Thanks for all of your responses so far.  :D

As for me, I had been running a fairly regular twice-a-month game for a while, but last spring it slipped to "sometimes" as I have focused on writing the adventure I'm running at Gary Con this year.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:19 pm 
 

I am starting back with collecting (I do so each winter) so I thought I'd return to one of my all-time favorite forums...

Alas, other than a PbP "Trail of Cthulhu" game on the Paizo messageboards I do not play.

My son and I have played Pathfinder off and on, but he's 16 now and is swamped with school and sports.

I did find a D&D 3.5 beginner set at a used bookstore for $5, so I bought it... typical beginner stuff but my son said he'd like to try it so we may get to play a little WoTC crunch.

I do long for my 0e and 1e days, though.

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:01 pm 
 

Not much play time in the last 10 years. More due to the constraints of conflicting schedules amongst the group than anything else.

Last time I did was about a year ago, and that was a boardgame evening (Clue, Dungeon! and Risk)


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Post Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:48 pm 
 

My regular group tries to play every other weekend although it doesn't always happen due to conflicts. We've been running the same group of characters through the same module (Temple of Elemental Evil) for the last 5 years. I think we are around Session 105, which means we are averaging around 21 sessions per year. My half-orc Fighter/Cleric, Horc, is level 6/6, so about 1 level in each class per 21 sessions. Gary would be proud.  8O

In the last two years I've started going to some local gamedays/cons, and will be going to NTRPCon for the first time this June.

I also play RPGs intermittently at home with the kid(s), as part of a mix of different games.


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Post Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:13 pm 
 

With remorse, I will admit that my gaming life has turned to diamonds & rust over the last couple years. This is mostly due to the birth of my new little noise maker.

I often resort to taking handfuls of polyhedral dice in my palm and nervously squeezing them around, at times looking out the window in a blank 1000 yard stare.


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:13 am 
 

The core of my gaming group (myself and two other guys) have been meeting about every other weekend for 21 years now.  We have generally kept a group size of six.  We have found this is the best size for being able to coordinate everyone's schedules.  We started out playing 1 edition for many years before moving into 3.5, and pathfinder.  I am now DMing with the Swords & Wizardry rule set.  We will probably move into 5E after my campaign is over.  Oh and we have done quiete a bit of DCC as well.

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:18 pm 
 

I was DMing a 3.5 campaign on a regular basis right up until the time my son was born, about 2 and half years ago.

Haven't played since then except for a couple of sessions with Pathfinder Society.  

But now that Cooper Jr. is quickly growing out of the labor intensive baby stage I'm thinking about getting a game started up again.


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:40 pm 
 

Agent Cooper wrote in How often do you play?:But now that Cooper Jr. is quickly growing out of the labor intensive baby stage I'm thinking about getting a game started up again.


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:18 pm 
 

Agent Cooper wrote in How often do you play?:I was DMing a 3.5 campaign on a regular basis right up until the time my son was born, about 2 and half years ago.

Haven't played since then except for a couple of sessions with Pathfinder Society.  

But now that Cooper Jr. is quickly growing out of the labor intensive baby stage I'm thinking about getting a game started up again.

It's tough to find extra time during the first few years, especially if you also work a lot. I feel your pain!

  


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:45 pm 
 

Used to play via Skype with a group here, but over the past two years, I play perhaps once every two months with my boys (aged 9, 13 and 16). We are playing (believe it or not), the Keep on the Borderlands! They play 5E as an afterschool activity and one is playing a dragon and another a titan (weird!). I know nothing about 5E. It seems to be a little different from the old days.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:52 pm 
 

Chainsaw wrote in How often do you play?:
Agent Cooper wrote in How often do you play?:I was DMing a 3.5 campaign on a regular basis right up until the time my son was born, about 2 and half years ago.

Haven't played since then except for a couple of sessions with Pathfinder Society.  

But now that Cooper Jr. is quickly growing out of the labor intensive baby stage I'm thinking about getting a game started up again.

It's tough to find extra time during the first few years, especially if you also work a lot. I feel your pain!


You got that right, brother!

But the good news is my daughter is going to be 9 in July and she's showing some curiosity about the game.  I think it's about time for her to roll up her first character.   8)


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 7:58 pm 
 

Never enough!  My goal is for once a month but sometimes that increases or decreases depending on RL.


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:05 pm 
 

I run a DCC weekly game on roll20, but we usually lose one week a month to real life so I probably play about 3 times a month or so.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 4:55 pm 
 

Monday nights is my 3.5 group - turned - Pathfinder group. We've been gaming for 8 years. [Weekly]. We switch off every other week between two Pathfinder adventure modules (I am running the Iron Gods adventure path, and Howard is running Rise of the Runelords).

My Sunday afternoon group started with 1st Edition, now through 3.5 (Since 1996). We average 2-3 times a month.

My original 1st Edition D&D group... we get together every other month.

And then there's a 5th edition game that's on hiatus, since I hear the DM is working like 100 hours a week for his regular job....

And then there's Origins, Gencon, and a few local cons around Chicago and it's surrounding suburbs (like Milwaukee)...


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 8:16 pm 
 

Not as often as I would like to...  Anyways, I am currently running a Pathfinder game monthly and that has just entered it's third year.  It is quickly becoming "Mathfinder" as they approach double digit levels.  For my kids I run a 1st/2nd Ed. AD&D hybrid that we play when we can.  Sometimes once a week, sometimes longer stretches of time.  I also play in a Stars Without Number game but that seems to be a few times a year now due to busy schedules.  Also once a year or so I run an AD&D game for the remnants of my old high school group.  I am approaching my 20 year class reunion now, and in those days we played at least once a week, now down to once a year, hahaha...

For this next year and the future, I want to play and run in games like DCCRPG, Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperboria, 5th Ed. D&D and more 1st/2nd Ed. AD&D.  We'll see what gets accomplished!

  

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Post Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:19 pm 
 

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:55 am 
 

I run B/X alternating Saturdays with the opposite Saturday being a C&C-like game. I run a 3.5 game every Tuesday evening and play in a Pathfinder game alternating Sundays. It's our (mine and the Wife's) social life ;-)


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