How and with whom do you game with? Poll


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Who you game with and the style/setting/rule sets all affect how you experience PF and forms your opinions and responses on the forum. That got me wondering what the playing demographics were - hence this poll.

Please "Favorite" one of the following posts that most closely describes your current gaming group. A game-shop group that "normally" has a core group but allows walk ins would either be Steady (if you are a core-member) or Pickup Game (if you just play with which ever table has room on any given session).

1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths
3. Steady Group - PFS
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop
5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)
6. Another system/style

Edited: Thanks GN and Jiggys


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1. Steady Group - Home Brew


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2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths


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3. Steady Group - PFS


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4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop, homebrew


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5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)

Grand Lodge RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32

What do I pick if the bulk of my gaming is 5E PbP with each campaign having a group selected from a pool of applicants but then staying together long-term?

Dark Archive

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How and with whom do you game?


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6. Another system / style completely


Right now I am running another system, but I switch campaigns about every six months and pathfinder is probably the most frequently used. I am also GMing a play by post for pathfinder.


2 3 and 4

Grand Lodge

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2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths

We used to do Home Brew, but have found that the advantage of using Adventure Paths to decrease workload for the GM has greatly improved our frequency of play.

I also do a fair bit of 4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop


What about those of us who game with different groups? :)

Ex. I am active in a homebrew home game, a PFS Adventure Path home game, and do game-shop PFS pretty regularly at local shops.


TimD wrote:

What about those of us who game with different groups? :)

Ex. I am active in a homebrew home game, a PFS Adventure Path home game, and do game-shop PFS pretty regularly at local shops.

your call. Maybe the one you associate most with. I'm just happy to try to get in a session per week - you're lucky to have the time open.


I think I might throw the numbers off.
Weekly Steady group, currently APing RotR, but before that (and plan to in the future) rotated GMS through various homebrew games and different systems. (1,2 and 6?)

Also 4. every other week I get to enjoy PFS.

Silver Crusade

Are we only supposed to favorite one? What if we've got two that we do equally?

I've been GMing a PF adventure path with the same group for over two years now. I also play/GM PFS at a local store and at occasional conventions. I honestly couldn't tell you which I do more often, since I do both an average of 3 times per month each.


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Fromper wrote:

Are we only supposed to favorite one? What if we've got two that we do equally?

I've been GMing a PF adventure path with the same group for over two years now. I also play/GM PFS at a local store and at occasional conventions. I honestly couldn't tell you which I do more often, since I do both an average of 3 times per month each.

ok ok....I'm going to admit to a little cultural bias. As a parent of 5, who also tries to stays fit doing triathlons, maintain a garden, do a little woodworking, and keep my wife happy, I obviously underestimated some of the level of time others might devote to gaming.

Please favorite 2 or more if required to best describe your playing habits.


Steady group with occasional "guest players" and homebrew.

Scarab Sages

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I'm going to violate your implied definition of steady. We have a fixed, steady group running an AP but based on life commitments we get together less than once a month.


Steady group of friends, playing both home brew & Adventure Paths.
And very often the APS contain heavy doses of Home Brew.


1. Steady Group - Home Brew
6. Other System (STAR WARS Edge of the Empire - Published Adventures)

I also run games online (roll20) about as often as I run games in person.

I home brew a low though many of the things I used to homebrew I re-did in the style of Pathfinder Unchained.

I have never run a published adventure for Pathfinder, nor have I ever played in the Golarion setting.


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Can I vote 3 times?

I'm currently running 2 Giantslayer campaigns. The first is my group of noobs on Sunday that I'm teaching the game to. The second is a Saturday interim for a few months waiting on another player to return, at which point we'll switch to Mummy's Mask (book 3). Once that player returns, I intend to start a Wednesday Hell's Rebels group (only the currently missing player will be part of HR).

I got tired of shooting league pool last year and decided this was a better hobby (though I've been playing off and on since 1980). It's safer, too.


2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths

I have played through Curse of the Crimson Throne, Kingmaker, and Jade Regent; and am currently (thanks to two different groups) making my way through Skull & Shackles and Reign of Winter. It is early yet, but so far S&S is shaping up to be the most fun, character interaction-wise.

Grand Lodge

6. Another system/style

I moved from my home town about six years ago becoming separated from my long time gaming group (about two plus decades of gaming together with the longest running members). None of us wanted to stop playing together so I bought Fantasy Grounds and we still play together almost every Sunday online. Except for the last two years we played almost exclusively Pathfinder but I needed a change (I am always the DM) so we have been playing other systems. In those two years we have played New World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu, we are currently playing Castles and Crusades using the 1st ed AD&D adventure Queen of the Spiders and next I will run either a Savage Worlds/Home Brew Sci-Fi campaign or The Strange.

5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)

I also play with a group locally but is is very erratic, we are trying to get through Carrion Crown but at the rate we get together I think we will all be dead and buried before it is finished.


1.

My first DMing experience was home brew and I never have looked back.


GM 1990 wrote:

Who you game with and the style/setting/rule sets all affect how you experience PF and forms your opinions and responses on the forum. That got me wondering what the playing demographics were - hence this poll.

Please "Favorite" one of the following posts that most closely describes your current gaming group. A game-shop group that "normally" has a core group but allows walk ins would either be Steady (if you are a core-member) or Pickup Game (if you just play with which ever table has room on any given session).

1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths
3. Steady Group - PFS
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop
5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)
6. Another system/style

Edited: Thanks GN and Jiggys

What about those who do

Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths + Homebrew

or things like that?

For example...playing PF APs but with 5e, or with home rules, or integrated into someone's home campaign, or other things like that?


Steady/Houserules when we play Pathfinder.

Steady/Other System when we play WoD.

I don't use published story/adventure modules for either.


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I am not certain how my group fits: We've played some of Emerald Spire, some homebrew and will play Hell's Rebels later this year... Our group is 3 of my 5 sons (11, 14, 18 with the youngest chomping at the bit to join in--we're a bit wary of his attention span at only 7) and a friend or two of theirs on occasion. Good times! The family that plays together...


homebrew pathfinder (basically have to because I love third party material)
but also I run 2 Anima: Beyond Fantasy sessions a week in addition to the 1 or 2 pathfinder sessions. yes, I am sobbing in the corner wishing I could be a player again.


GM 1990 wrote:

Who you game with and the style/setting/rule sets all affect how you experience PF and forms your opinions and responses on the forum. That got me wondering what the playing demographics were - hence this poll.

Please "Favorite" one of the following posts that most closely describes your current gaming group. A game-shop group that "normally" has a core group but allows walk ins would either be Steady (if you are a core-member) or Pickup Game (if you just play with which ever table has room on any given session).

1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths
3. Steady Group - PFS
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop
5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)
6. Another system/style

Edited: Thanks GN and Jiggys

2

Scarab Sages

2 and 6 (the latter being Warhammer 3rd edion and Buffy the Vampire slayer, each once or twice a month, mixing a variety of published adventures and homebrew material, some homebrew extending the Pathfinder AP game, too. The Pathfinder game is twice a month)

Shadow Lodge

1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths
3. Steady Group - PFS
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop


(2) Steady Home Group doing PF APs - Though each individual game might only meet once a month due to RL factors, we are currently progressing through 3 different APs drawing from a pool of 6 players. For example my husband and I play in all 3 games but the other married couple only plays in 1 of the games, etc.

(6) Other - I do a LOT of Play-by-Post gaming after having jumped in a little over two years ago.


6. Another system/style

Almost exclusively in roll20, different games and a lot of people to play with. Also very occasional face-to-face -sessions with a steady group that has been playing together for 30+ years.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

Skull and Shackles
Reign of Winter (ends tonight)
Carrion Crown (1-2 times a month)
Pathfinder Society adventures home game
Pathfinder Society regular organized play group
Pathfinder Society gamedays, irregular community groups


Quote:
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths

Two groups of this, one session on Tuesdays just starting Legacy of Fire and one on Saturdays getting close to wrapping up Kingmaker.


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1 and 2. I have 2 steady live groups and 1 steady PbP group (which plays 3 games). All groups play homebrew campaigns, but we do ocasionally play APs as well...

I never played in PFS, and I really, really hope I never have to.


Hmmm...

Playing in two IRL groups, one steady weekly homebrew campaign set in Parsantium: City at the Crossroads using the Dungeon World rules, and one Pathfinder Skull & Shackles game that meets sporadically when our calendars align (usualy once every two or three months or so).

I'm the only overlap between the two groups.

I'm also playing in five PbP games on the Paizo boards: I'm GMing Rise of the Runelords and a Pathfinder Core conversion of AD&D module I6: Ravenloft from 1983. I'm playing in three APs: Carrion Crown, Shattered Star and Legendary Planet. None of the PbPs are for PFS credit.

I don't play PFS.

Why I don't play PFS:
I tried out PFS in my area twice and had a really lousy time both times. The first time was with a bunch of high schoolers with a college-aged GM. All were young enough to be my kids. They power-gamed, didn't role-play in-character at all, and constantly made in-jokes and talked incessantly about some anime I'd never heard of.

The second time was with a bunch of 20-something dudebros who acted like misogynistic a-holes. I walked out of the game after about 90 minutes when they started making rape jokes.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

Lemmy/Haladir:
Give me a call if you're ever in Phoenix. Or on Roll20.

Ooh, Parsantium. Cool!


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I have no doubt that there are GMs who can make PFS fun. I just don't like its rules. =P I am way, way, way too much of a 3pp and houserule junkie to ever really be able to tolerate such a restrictive system for long.


1. Rappan Athuk
2. Iron Gods


Orthos wrote:
I have no doubt that there are GMs who can make PFS fun. I just don't like its rules. =P I am way, way, way too much of a 3pp and houserule junkie to ever really be able to tolerate such a restrictive system for long.

Exactly how I feel about it. I don't use a lot of houserules (my players would rebel eventually because of my constant tinkering) but I love 3PP stuff and we play a little fast and loose with some of the rules in order to make the game a little more cinematic sometimes.


1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths (Runelords, Crimson, Iron Gods, Jade Throne, etc, etc,)
3. Steady Group - PFS (have played in Brevoy, Galt, Kelesh and post-crimson Korvosa)
4. Pickup Games - Wardens of the Reborn Forge
5. Another system/style - World of Darkness, Exalted, OSR


TriOmegaZero wrote:

Lemmy/Haladir:
Give me a call if you're ever in Phoenix. Or on Roll20.

Ooh, Parsantium. Cool!

Spoiler:
Damn! I was just in Phoenix a few weeks ago, and I would totally have gone out for a drink with you. I probably won't be back for a while, though.

In our Dungeon World game, we're using Parsantium as an outline, but we're heavily modifying it on-the-fly. Here's the GM's campaign log over on RPG.net. I'm playing Zehara the Bard.


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GM 1990 wrote:

Who you game with and the style/setting/rule sets all affect how you experience PF and forms your opinions and responses on the forum. That got me wondering what the playing demographics were - hence this poll.

Please "Favorite" one of the following posts that most closely describes your current gaming group. A game-shop group that "normally" has a core group but allows walk ins would either be Steady (if you are a core-member) or Pickup Game (if you just play with which ever table has room on any given session).

1. Steady Group - Home Brew
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths
3. Steady Group - PFS
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop
5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)
6. Another system/style

Edited: Thanks GN and Jiggys

Current Count:

1. Steady Group - Home Brew = 22
2. Steady Group - PF Adventure Paths = 32
3. Steady Group - PFS = 6
4. Pickup Games - PFS, one-shots, gameshop = 6
5. Not in an active game (less than 1x a month)= 2
6. Another system/style = 16

Seems to be a heavy bias (65%) to playing with a steady group, and APs over Homebrew campaign.

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