I was talking with Greg the other day about the real-world make-up of our respective parties and wondered what it was like for other groups.

So...what are the real-world occupations of the people with whom you game?

My party looks like this:

An attorney who plays a fighter/cleric
A librarian who plays a ranger
A cell-phone salesman who plays a cleric
A guy on disability who plays a fighter
and a mechanical engineer who plays a rogue
and a minister who masquerades as a GM

I am a graphic designer and I play with a college financial aid counselor, a hospital coder, an IT specialist, and two programmers.

I am an electrical engineer my group has
2 Electrical engineers
1 Account manager
5 College students
2 Staffers at the local college

RotRL Party
- elecrician, playing a gnome scout
- part time factory worker and housewife playing a Varisian sorcerer
- housewife an mother playing a Varisian bard
- taxi driver playing a dwarven fighter
- technical engineer playing a dwarven priest
- student of educational science part time worker at a gas station GMs

DSA (german Roleplaying game) Party:
- student of educational science part time worker at a gas station: human knight
- math / biology teacher: human wizard/healer
- truck driver: human hunter
- taxi driver: half elven sorceress
- city clerk: human thief
- technical engineer GMs

Sunday regular play:

GM (moi) Dock worker
Grogg Dukot: Half orc Monk. Female croupier
Louis Ballard: Human Bard. Barrista
Tilleah Vanderbuilt: Human Druid. Check out chick
Crystal Whiteriver: Elf Wizard. Chemist

Wednesday Game

GM (Moi again)
Llaine Creola: Human Ranger. Chef
Donnial Sheng: Half Elf Fighter. Secuirty Guard
Smirk McShivv: Halfling Barbarian. Taxi driver

Batts

Hydrographer, IT (Architect), IT (Test Analyst), IT (System Admin), Teacher, Architect, Sailor Royal Australian Navy, Private Australian Army.

My current (and only) RL game is an epic-level 3.5 homebrew. The players:

Me - art student / gas station attendant - NG human paladin / artificer / infused
Alex - linguistics student - GM
Tory - actress / waitress - CG human barbarian
Alex 2 - actor / cashier / handyman - N lizardfolk druid / binder
Patrick - antique store gofer / re-enactor - LN half-elf ranger /rogue

Hm...

We have metalworkers, paralegals, schoolboys, schoolteachers, software developers, students (of stuff like computer science, linguistics, Japanese, Chinese, I'm probably forgetting stuff), tax inspectors, and others I'm afraid to ask ;-).

Small business owner, IT Professional, Organic Food Saleman, Stay-at-home Dad**, Teacher, Advertiser, Accountant for the Canada Revenue Agency***.

**The Stay-at-home Dad's career orientated lawyer wife is the indirect provider of many good things at the gaming table since she does not ask her hubby what he spent the money he took from their account on...she just assumes diapers. I presume it usually is diapers but I mostly notice cool gaming books and all manner of desirable things. In fact if some one says 'we really should have X for the game' there is a pretty good chance that stay-at-home dad will bring it to next weeks game.

***Also a good source of materials - though mostly just stationary type stuff - all provided by the Canadian Tax Payer.

GM (me) - In-house Lawyer, PhD Student
Player 1 - Shop Manager (electric supplies)
Player 2 - IT specialist
Player 3 - PhD in IT, lecturer
Player 4 - Compulsive Odd Worker

I was talking with Greg the other day about the real-world make-up of our respective parties and wondered what it was like for other groups.

So...what are the real-world occupations of the people with whom you game?

Attorney = LN Half Orc Monk

Myself = customer service representative for a major telecommunications provider. Hard to assign a character.

My Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus="We love you!") = out of work currently, call-center background having. Mostly GM's.

me sign shop foreman,
players, a mailman, an armed security guard, a ups worker, a pipe fitter, and a guy who does something with computers that i don't understand, and on occasion a mechanic.

Group 1:

Translator (DM, me)
Economics/maths teacher (female human cleric)
network designer (male human rogue/assassin)
high school student (male half-orc fighter)
computer graphics designer (female human enchantress)
accountant (female half-elf fighter)
administrative employee (female human ranger/blackguard)

Group 2:
Translator (DM, me)
Economics/maths teacher (male hellbred sorcerer)
IT/network specialist (female human cleric)
high school student (male drow fighter)
primary school student (male human monk)
website designer (female human rogue)

Group 1: 2 stay-at-home dads, 1 stay-at-home mom. This is the group that meets while the kids are at school, obviously.

Group 2: as above, plus spouses: 1 IT manager, 1 chemist, 1 engineer.

Group 3: 1 housedad, 1 engineer, 1 archivist, I dunno about the other 3, we're a new group.

The group I've been gaming with for the last few years looks like this:

DM - Social Worker
Mechanical Engineer (me)
Security Guard
Civil Engineer
Stay-at-home Dad
IT guy

DM (me)- Production artist/Illustrator
Library assistant/Cartoonist
3d animator
Manager at Gamestop
Unemployed framer/cartoonist/aspiring 3d animator

Artsy fartsy.

My STAP group was:

DM: me, US Army captain
elf swashbuckler/rogue: my wife, PhD student (medieval lit)
elf ranger/totemic demonslayer: retired US Army NCO (commo), now a procurement contractor
elf druid: former US Army warrant officer (commo), now a civil servant
human rogue: civilian Army librarian
human wizard: former Marine, Army IT contractor (librarian's husband)
human cleric: US Army captain
human monk: drugstore manager

My STAP group was:

DM: me, US Army captain
elf swashbuckler/rogue: my wife, PhD student (medieval lit)
elf ranger/totemic demonslayer: retired US Army NCO (commo), now a procurement contractor
elf druid: former US Army warrant officer (commo), now a civil servant
human rogue: civilian Army librarian
human wizard: former Marine, Army IT contractor (librarian's husband)
human cleric: US Army captain
human monk: drugstore manager

Do you guys who are either in the military or have players in the military find that your players disappear due to being posted. Our Leading Seaman has done two tours of the gulf and is keen for his third so he will be probably gone for about a yearish.

Our soldier is a full time reservist so if he gets posted then that means something very serious is happening and games would be the least of our concerns.

How do you guys find a new game when you are away?

My Age of Worms group:

DM (me) In House Tax Attorney,
Warforged Warblade- Out of work jack of all trades,
Sendasti Batbarian/Scout- Operations Manager Large Retail Chain,
Dwarven Cleric- Mail man,
Human Rogue/Mystic- Masters Student (Poetry)/Part time Airport security,
Elan Psion- Student Medical Technical Program/Substitute High School Teacher,
Human Wizard- T-shirt designer,
Elf Fighter- Design & Tester Missile Guidance Systems,
Githzerai Monk- Masters Student (Creative Writing),
Player on Hiatus- PhD College Professor (the Romantics)

Dark Heresy Group:
With a few guys from above +
GM: Unix Administrator
Psycher- IT Professional

Do you guys who are either in the military or have players in the military find that your players disappear due to being posted. Our Leading Seaman has done two tours of the gulf and is keen for his third so he will be probably gone for about a yearish.

Our soldier is a full time reservist so if he gets posted then that means something very serious is happening and games would be the least of our concerns.

How do you guys find a new game when you are away?

Sadly, operative term is "was." Army moved me to the other side of the country. That group still games on without me--they're doing Second Darkness AP now.

Another group I played in was smaller, 4 players and the DM, and we changed campaigns entirely when one of us deployed, with the intent of picking it back up again when he got back. But by then, somebody else had deployed... so we never got back to that game (RotRL). Shame, too, I was a Shoanti Sarenrae cleric. I miss that character.

I guess the point is there's no easy way to deal with it, especially in a smaller group.

I game with a postal worker, a 3rd grade teacher, a retail clerk, an administrative assistant(?), and an unemployed Navy veteran. I am a warehouse clerk for an e-comm company (musical instruments/recording equipment).

Weekly Group - Accountant (me), Engineer, Psychiatrist

Fortnightly Group - Accountant (me again), Geneticist, Teacher, Musician, MD

I am a high school science teacher playing a half-elf swashbuckler.
The GM is a college professor of education.
One guy works on data processing (or something like that) from home and plays a human priest.
Another is a computer tech guy at a local navy base playing a dual bastard sword wielding human Ranger whose recently "stone to fleshed" snake companion got eaten by a chuul.
And two college students, one playing a warlock/illusionist;
the other has died three times in our campaign: Orc paladin who arrested my first PC in this campaign, a halfling arcane trickster, a half-elf illusionist, and now a tiefling rogue.

...

One guy works on data processing (or something like that) from home and plays a human priest.
...

Priest is dead. Will see what he comes up with next week. This will be his third character this campaign (lvl 6-7)

Me, Theatre Education Officer - DM
Freelance drama tutor and chef - Shifter Cleric
Computer programmer - Human Wizard
Secondary School student - Gnome Sorcerer
Student Mental Health Nurse - Eladrin Warlock
Petrol Station Manager - Half-Elf Ranger
Solicitor - Dragonborn Paladin
Website Developer - Dwarf Fighter

We're a mixed bunch!

Chef? Not really. I just bake stuff.

Baker sounds... twee.

Nonetheless, "chef" somehow implies both an army of minions and level of skill I don't have.

Nonetheless, "chef" somehow implies both an army of minions and level of skill I don't have.

Pastry chef?

Rev Rosey wrote:

Nonetheless, "chef" somehow implies both an army of minions and level of skill I don't have.

Pastry chef?

I wish I could claim such heights. I do cook a lot and occasionally still do make pickles/chutneys and jams for the local organic veg delivery service when they have surplus and I have time. At the moment though, it's mostly elaborate birthday cakes in tandem with the student mental health nurse/eladrin warlock. I bake, she ices and we're never knowingly understated :)

So...what are the real-world occupations of the people with whom you game?

My party looks like this:

An attorney who plays a fighter/cleric
A librarian who plays a ranger
A cell-phone salesman who plays a cleric
A guy on disability who plays a fighter
and a mechanical engineer who plays a rogue
and a minister who masquerades as a GM

Going off their characters in my STAP game:

A customer service rep who moonlights as a Barbarian/Druid
A teacher-to-be who spends her offtime as a Spirit Shaman
A graveyard-shift convenience store clerk who passes for a Ninja
A security guard masquerading as a Warlock
An aide for the mentally disabled who burns frustrations as an Assassin
A US Army Spook (ie, Military Intelligence) part-timing as a Bard
And an admin/clerical and data entry clerk disguised as a DM

I have two major groups.

Regular 15 year or so running group:

• The DM who pretends to be a Programmer and Database Designer.
  
• A half-elf bard/cleric who pretends to be another programmer and DB designer (me).
  
• A half-elf rogue/wizard who moonlights as a IT Specialist.
  
• A elven favored soul who works as a software tester.
  
• A human ranger/full time orthopedic surgeon.
  
• A human wizard project manager.
  
• A human fighter unemployed hack (my brother).

The other group consists of:

• The DM who pretends to be a Programmer and Database Designer (me).
  
• A half-elf ranger who pretends to be another programmer and DB designer.
  
• A human paladin of Iomedae who is also masquerading as a programmer and DB designer.
  
• A gnomish sorcerer help-desk specialist.
  
• A human rogue who is currently unemployed (much like his real-life persona).

student (and army reserves)
student (and army reserves)
student
self-employed ebay trader
college admin (housing)

hmmm... did not think of it until now but this looks a little odd. Two of those students are at a different college. Only one is 'my' student and he moved in after gaming with us not the other way around. O:)

When one deployed the group continued without him, but a new group started when he got back and he rejoined.

We have a union plumber, an admin asst, UPS driver, a Mechanical engr, an Accountant, a Soldier, and a recent grad of a Pharmact tech school.

NMR spectroscopist (DM), Materials scientist, Analytical chemist, Banker, Project manager, Graphic artist and a Psychiatric nurse.

I'm a grad student and a waiter and usually play rogues.

In my group however we have:

Graphic designer - Usually wizard or psionic characters.

Law student - Fighter types.

Gas station attendant - Again fighter types.

Former literature student - Again... fighter types.

Gas station attendant - Again fighter types.

Maybe it's a gas station thing... I've got the same job, and tend towards the same type of characters (paladins, crusaders, martial clerics, and fighters seem to be recurring themes).

I feel so uniform... my group is entirely engineers. Although we do have one mechanical/thermal to break the software monotony.

Roac wrote:

Gas station attendant - Again fighter types.

Maybe it's a gas station thing... I've got the same job, and tend towards the same type of characters (paladins, crusaders, martial clerics, and fighters seem to be recurring themes).

Not for me... the one in my group seems to like Warlocks. Other than one Duskblade and the Ninja he's playing now he's played three different Warlock characters.

All of us are generally college students.

I'm an antrhropology/art history major and I generally play casters of some sort. Although one of my favorite characters has been a barbarian, the only non-magic class I have played.

We have a Computer Forensic guy and he generally plays rogues. He likes being a sneaky liar and disarming things/finding traps. Although he's about to play an old man Summoner, so that's going to be fun when he slips and breaks a hip. XD

We have a Philosophy and English Major, he's almost always a bard. He loves telling and recording stories. He's usually a play write. he's also the most likely to contract VD in game.

And we have a college drop out who generally plays the dumb brute fighter who is the comic relief. He generally does the big stupid thing that screws up entire quests or gets someone killed. Like killing a little girl's dog on a cursed island thinking it was evil. Then getting an axe int he back from her father. Or stop drop and rolling while in fire in a burning building... for 9 rounds until dead.

We have, in a way, booted a problem player who's a sociology and psych major who loves creating characters that never works with party-cohesion. he likes to sell us out to get all the credit and reward money, takes titles, steals from or tries to kill the players...yuck. Not to mention cheats.