I haven't played D&D in six years. I play imaginary D&D though; it's pretty cool.So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?Yes. Both in forms that meet the criteria you’ve set for your survey and in forms that do not.
I’m curious as to why you have chosen to exclude these specific forms of play from your survey?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Well, according to the criteria, I don't play Pathfinder. Who knew you had to smell gamer funk to be a GM?
I am in two PbPs -Council of Thieves and Serpent's Skull- at the moment (and a third one, but that is Star Wars SAGA, so it counts even less), thus I do not play Pathfinder. Pity... It looks like a very interesting game system indeed. Wish I could play it...
Disclaimer: A little friendly teasing is all.
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Well, according to the criteria, I don't play Pathfinder. Who knew you had to smell gamer funk to be a GM?
Yeah, it’s funny isn’t it?
What with GMing several games and playing in several more, you are probably playing far more Pathfinder than someone who is playing in a monthly (or possibly even fortnightly) face-to-face game ... and yet for the purposes of this survey you don’t actually play the game ...
For example, I play a fortnightly game, session time is 5 hours on average. I play another game which meets about once every two months for an 8 hour or so session, so call that another 2 hours per fortnight on average for 7 hours of face-to-face play per fortnight.
If I apply a (very) conservative average of 1 hour per day spent on play by post games, that is 14 hours of play by post per fortnight – twice the amount of time I spend playing face-to-face Pathfinde / D&D.
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Question to the assembled host: if you're active in both 3.5 and Pathfinder campaigns, how much trouble do you have, keeping the rules distinct?
I GM two ‘occasional’ games (each meets approx once every two months on average), one using Pathfinder rules, one using 3.5 D&D. Few house rules to speak of in either. I also play in a Pathfinder game with quite a lot of house rules once a fortnight or so. Play by Post games I am GMing two (using 3.5 rules) and playing in five (using Pathfinder rules). These games have varying different house rules.
I have not so far had any problems keeping the rules distinct (including house rules for different campaigns) as far as I am aware.
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I have 2 (to short) weekly sessions, one thursday, one friday. For convenience of one player in each game who has a rotating work shift, there are two campaigns on each of that day that switch depending on his shift (one where he plays, one where he doesn't)
Thurshday: (heavily modified)SCAP (3.5) / Buffy (soon a delta green intermission will follow the first "season"
Friday: Falcons Hollow adventures (3.5), soon to end, starting a Babylon 5 campaign using Alternity rules) / Serenity (soon to end, starting RotR 3.5)
I use some of the pathfinder rule changes (certain spells, number of feats, etc.) but will make the full switch after finishing RotR, when I had the time to glance over the changes I'd like to make to CotCT, the campaign I'll do next (probably a fair bit into the future...)
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Question to the assembled host: if you're active in both 3.5 and Pathfinder campaigns, how much trouble do you have, keeping the rules distinct?
The freakin' spells. As the 3.5 players are newbs to the system (even if they're experienced AD&D players), it falls on my not-so-awesome shoulders to keep things running rules-wise.
There are a lot of small differences between what they know about spells in AD&D 2e, what I'm used to in 3.X, and what I'm learning to become comfortable with in PFRPG, so a number of mistakes and a bit of confusion are inevitable.Skills, feats, maneuvers, class abilities... not really any trouble at all.
how the heck do you play by post, any links to how to
would love to play more PF, other than my four hour weekly game.
Pathfinder 1/week
Star Wars Saga 2/month
how the heck do you play by post, any links to how to
would love to play more PF, other than my four hour weekly game.
Hey-YA!
Here be the link t' the "People wanted" page:
And here be the link to the "Play by Post" actual page:
And here be the link to the discussion page, where people talk about thier games 'behind the curtain', sort-a thingy:
Hope that helps ye out a tad! (^_^)
Oh...and I play Pathfinder somat like twice a week an' am in'a couple-few PbP's m'self. *>_>*
Cheers!
I DM a weekly 3.5 campaign with four players. We play online using Fantasy Grounds when we can't get together in person. I've previously played 1E and 2E with most of the players in the group.
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I run Pathfinder twice a month for 4 regular players and one that may or may not show up. We just started back after a summer hiatus. We typically play from 6 or 6:30 pm til 2 am. We are all over 25, so it surprises me that there is still that much gamer stamina among us, but the rotating game schedule helps. We play on game for two weeks, then switch off to a different system (we are starting Dark Heresy this week) run by a different GM, so the game fatigue is low, and when we come back to a game, we are all very excited to be playing it again, and it gives the GMs some quality prep time.
I run a weekly Council of Thieves Pathfinder game. I also play Star Wars Saga edition twice a month, 4e twice a month, and D&D 3.5 twice a month.
Hmm. Well, for the last few months I've been GMing a fortnightly "Rise of the Runelords" Pathfinder game, for a small group of three friends.
My weekly game began as a 3.5 outing in Forgotten Realms in mid-2007 with myself as GM and two players.
When the Alpha playtest material for Pathfinder came out, we gobbled it up - by that point, the group had swelled to seven players plus GM and I was running Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, supplemented with material from the White Wolf Ravenloft books to keep the level of challenge appropriately elevated.
We kept updating our characters and table rules to reflect the new material as it was released through the beta all the way up to the publication of the Pathfinder Core Rules, and by then I and another player were alternating six-month stints as GM, using our own unique campaign settings as backdrops.
The group has shrunk a bit since then; now we have four players and a GM, with a fifth player moonlighting on occasion. We use the PFRPG core rules almost exclusively, though we dip into the Book of Vile Darkness and Spell Compendium liberally to give our casters some much-needed flavor. And lately we've had ample opportunity to use the Advanced Player's Guide, since we use HeroLab for our builds and those rules are more or less fully integrated into that software. I'm currently running a Witch 7/Fighter 1/Eldritch Knight 1 - and greatly enjoying hexing every NPC our GM throws at us. :D
I've been DMing 3.0/3.5 FR with my group since 2000 (we've been together since '98). We're currently moving toward the Age of Worms module "Dawn of a New Age," a campaign that started in April of 2006.
I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Sadly, I'm playing online only now. I wish I could fine a group at my college, but I don't know where to look.
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For a while, I was in at least four PbPs, but they all died. I also DMed a tri-weekly Kingmaker game over the summer, but everyone's gone back to college for the fall. The closest people I know to where I live who actually game are one in Rochester and one in Buffalo. Haven't rolled dice in a PF game since late August.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Yes. (Raises hand) Meet the criteria.
I am currently DMing two bi-monthly Pathfinder games, one on Mondays and one on Thursdays. I will be adding a third bimonthy Pathfinder game to the schedule when my Sunday d20 Modern game wraps up.
We were playinf AD&D 2nd ed for the longest time almost a year before we got a couple of new players and we have taken a bit of a break (now playing Star Wars D20) bofore I take over the reigns again running my revamped 3.5 game.
Oh and we play every other week.
I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
We play D&D 3.5 (with some borrowed and other houserules) on a regular basis, about once every two months. This does not meet your criteria, but we kept to this schedule for several years now, so that is playing on a regular basis IMNSHO. I am the GM, with 4 to 6 players regularly attending.
Currently, we are some 15 sessions in a Savage Tide based campaign (not really closely following the main plot).Hagor
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Here's a question; does the Original Poster even care??
I mean this thread is 21 days old, has 128 posts (not including this one), and the OP has been asked several times by many of those posters as to why the limitations (such as not including online games), but as yet, the ONLY post by the thread's creator is that single original post...
Just an observation...
Not that it really matters, as it's always nice to see what other gamers are doing...
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-
I run a once-a-month Pathfinder game (party just hit 18th level) with four players. The game began two years ago (heck, maybe 3 now?) as a 3.5 game and "upgraded" to Pathfinder when it came out last year.
I play in a different, once a month Pathfinder game (we're going through Crypt of the Everflame) with five players (including myself) plus GM.
I am also in the Ascension to Murder PbP here (Pathfinder rules, 3.5 Forgotten Realms setting). I know the OP said PbPs don't count, but as the GM has clearly prepared quite a lot of material and we roll dice (albeit digitally) and roleplay and have to deal with all rules issues per usual, I would say it does.
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
Why: I feel the game was meant to be played face to face at a table. The online and PBP aspect to the game has grown out of a lack of face to face players. I don't think ANYONE would choose to play online or PBP if face to face was an option. The very premise of the game expects the players and DM to be in the same room.
Actually, I have found that PbP suits a heavy-storytelling format much better than any F2F game I ever played. The fact that the game doesn't get derailed by a question lookup or a sudden left turn of the storytrack is a bonus as well. All in all, I enjoy online play better than any 'meat' session I have run. I will admit, I miss the peripherals: Lame jokes, horsing around, Mt. Dew chugging contests, etc. But I'm a dad with a tight schedule now, I don't have time for long nights gaming and goofing with a bunch of other folks. Most of the people my age are the same way.
I don't think the premise of the game expects the players to be together in realspace. It's a set of rules, it's like saying you can only play poker around a beer-laden table in a smoke-filled room. While some prefer that, a lot of the superstars of today's poker championships came out of the online playing rooms ...
Just some thoughts, not meaning to be argumentative. It's your poll, your criteria after all...
Of course I care :) I have read every post in the thread to date. I have not answered questions about the criteria because I feel as soon as I do that the thread will permanently detour into a discussion about the criteria.
I predict you're right. :-)
I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Two sessions a week. One is Pathfinder (converted Age of Worms) on Wednesdays- which we usually meet, but missed a couple due to quorum issues. I'm playing a Pathfinder reincarnation of my first 3.0 character, Mud a half-orc barbarian. And for the most part, loving it. A bit railroaded last session, the latest kind of made up for it, but we're low on equipment (Read: we were in jail and now we're busted out and scavenging off the baddies we kill) which 'helps balance the Pathfinder advantages' in a 3.5 module- my DM claims. 3-5 people now. (We just added a Psion and a Sorceress but may have long term lost our Rogue).
The second is Thursdays 3.5 right now...though not a normal game per say where we are solo running against Dragons and minions at 12th level. Supposedly we'll band together to fight a bigger meaner dragon.
As a party of Dragon Slayers- so far everyone has succeeded, but me...but it should be interesting when we do get together as a party- we still meet as a group though. What's the point of ending a dragon's reign of terror without an audience?
I'm actually up next (Almost ready!) with my Tiefling (bought off LA) Domain wizard. If I don't die (Again?) I'll look forward to the 5 person party. I've never actually played a Wizard so I think my chances of survival are fairly minimal. Mostly it is the 3 frost giants I know will be accompanying the young adult White Dragon, if it were one or just two I'd worry less about my spells per day and HP, add two winter wolves and this solo adventure seems a little rough. Nonetheless it is doable.
With this group most recently, like a month ago, we finished playing a module (something like "MirrorVerse")- some 3rd party module...as 8th level 3.5 characters. Before that was home brew based on 3.5, but not really having any direct components.
We'll also be doing a 3.5 reverse dungeon as Goblins?
Steady now as a 6 person group (including the DM, which switched off for the other 3.5 game)
Of course I care :) I have read every post in the thread to date. I have not answered questions about the criteria because I feel as soon as I do that the thread will permanently detour into a discussion about the criteria.I predict you're right. :-)
Of course, but a lot of the posts were already questioning the reasons for the restrictive criteria, so isn't that about the same anyway? And for that matter, what is the purpose of the survey? To garner info for something? Idle curiosity? Most people here wouldn't post at Paizo unless they were playing Pathfinder in some fashion or another. Why post here if you didn't have an interest in the game system?
Here's a question; does the Original Poster even care??
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-Of course I care :) I have read every post in the thread to date. I have not answered questions about the criteria because I feel as soon as I do that the thread will permanently detour into a discussion about the criteria. But here goes anyway:
- Sessions at least once a month
Why: I feel if you are playing less then once a month that does not qualify as ongoing campaigning to me. Its more like one off sessions.- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
Why: I feel the game was meant to be played face to face at a table. The online and PBP aspect to the game has grown out of a lack of face to face players. I don't think ANYONE would choose to play online or PBP if face to face was an option. The very premise of the game expects the players and DM to be in the same room.- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Why: Again the premise of the game is multiple players (controlling single PCs) and a DM. One on one games are an aberration that deviates from the core play style and design of the game done out of necessity.
I am gratified to see a response. Due to your lack of response, I, too, thought you didn't care, cibet44. I am glad to see this is not the case.
Mr. Curtain has made eloquent comments with which I largely agree.
In deference to cibet44's request the thread not be derailed I will now shut up.
ISo my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Yes. Playing in a PF game with a GM + 6-8 players (depending on schedules) every three weeks; GMing another that meets about that often with 5-6 players. (I know more people who want to play, too; that's just about the max that I feel comfortable handling with my style of GMing.)
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
Why: I feel the game was meant to be played face to face at a table. The online and PBP aspect to the game has grown out of a lack of face to face players. I don't think ANYONE would choose to play online or PBP if face to face was an option. The very premise of the game expects the players and DM to be in the same room.
I quasi-disagree with you here; for example, I know a group of guys who play an online game together who used to be a face-to-face group for years, but now their careers have scattered them across three continents. So, I agree with you in the sense that I'm sure they'd rather be able to play with each other face to face, but I disagree with you in the sense that I think the connotation of what you're saying is, they can't find enough players locally to play so they have to go online, whereas at least in this case it's that they can't find the specific players they want locally so they have to go online.
I run a once-a-month Pathfinder game (party just hit 18th level) with four players. The game began two years ago (heck, maybe 3 now?) as a 3.5 game and "upgraded" to Pathfinder when it came out last year.
I play in a different, once a month Pathfinder game (we're going through Crypt of the Everflame) with five players (including myself) plus GM.
I am also in the Ascension to Murder PbP here (Pathfinder rules, 3.5 Forgotten Realms setting). I know the OP said PbPs don't count, but as the GM has clearly prepared quite a lot of material and we roll dice (albeit digitally) and roleplay and have to deal with all rules issues per usual, I would say it does.
Yes darlin', it's been 2 years since we started, as of October 25th. See Journal Entry #1 ;)
Regular Game every Friday evening (16 years now) 3.5
Once every 6 weeks saturday evening with another group PFRPG
2 or 3 times a year big game of 2 or 3 days with players from both groups
Yes darlin', it's been 2 years since we started, as of October 25th. See Journal Entry #1 ;)I run a once-a-month Pathfinder game (party just hit 18th level) with four players. The game began two years ago (heck, maybe 3 now?) as a 3.5 game and "upgraded" to Pathfinder when it came out last year.
I play in a different, once a month Pathfinder game (we're going through Crypt of the Everflame) with five players (including myself) plus GM.
I am also in the Ascension to Murder PbP here (Pathfinder rules, 3.5 Forgotten Realms setting). I know the OP said PbPs don't count, but as the GM has clearly prepared quite a lot of material and we roll dice (albeit digitally) and roleplay and have to deal with all rules issues per usual, I would say it does.
Oh, so it just FEELS like three years. ;)
(A very excellent set of years, I might add.)
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Just started playing in a new game last night. The GM is running us through the old classic TSR modules.
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AKA 8one6
Just started playing in a new game last night. The GM is running us through the old classic TSR modules.
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Which classics in particular, or have you not been told so as to keep the mystery?
I still play 3.0 about once every 3 weeks with 6 players, and another group of 5 players on an irregular basis.
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Which classics in particular, or have you not been told so as to keep the mystery?Just started playing in a new game last night. The GM is running us through the old classic TSR modules.
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We're starting with Keep on the Borderlands and moving onto Against the Giants. I'm really looking forward to playing. we ended up with a great group including two people new to Pathfinder (and one completely new to RPGs.
==AKA 8one6
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I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
every tuesday and sunday
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I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
Every other Saturday with one group, every other Sunday with another (which alternates with the Saturdays) and every other Wednesday (the one prior to the Sunday game) with a variant of the Sunday group.
The group I play with meets every other week. I and another player trade off on who is GMing. Im running the group through RotRL (on the last module) and he runs us through 3.5 WotC Modules.
I see many posts from people that are actually playing 3.5/PF and many posts from those who are not. I also see many posts from those who obviously played D&D (1E/2E/3E) in the past but no longer play.
So my question is: Are you actively playing 3.5/PF on a regular basis?
For purposes of this survey actively playing means you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- Sessions at least once a month
- Sessions in person (no play-by-post or online only)
- Sessions with a group of at least 2 players and a DM (no solo or one-on-one groups)
I play once a week and GM once a week. One group of 5 and another group of 8 with some player mingling between groups 10 of us over all.
I also play by post on Gaia Online all through the week, I don't see where you think play by post does not count as it gives many people the option to play when they live in an area short on gamers.