Just out of curiousity, I was wondering how the people who visit this 
conference game off-line.  In a group with a bunch of your friends, 
perhaps a club?

In my case, I was part of a club at a college, but now I game with 
friends from RoS . . . that is, when I have the courtesy of knowing 
whether people are going to be available or not.  Some members of my 
group have a real communication problem.

Since I'm the planner (in so far as scheduling), I'm thinking of 
implementing a deadline . . . if I don't get a response by any mode of 
communication by midnight of the week we're supposed to game, I'm just 
going to assume the answer is no.

How about the rest of you?

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Since I'm a high school student, I generally game with my friends from school,
and we schedule the game while in school.

Right now, I'm playing a paladin of Corean (Scarred Lands campaign) a 
la AD&D 3rd ed. with some friends, and I'm still involved with White 
Wolf's Camarilla organization.  One of our chapter members is getting 
the VSS (venue style sheet) approved for Mage, so I'm pumped to play 
that again.

Someone from my old ward from church would like to play Mage tabletop--
 I haven't called him up to take the offer yet.

I have become aware of a problem in my own communication on a game I'm 
supposed to run online.  However, I am becoming more organized and I 
think I will finally be able to stick to schedule.

If/when I go to Game A Thon at the end of this month, I'll be back with 
the club I was part of, sure not all of the people I remember will be 
there, but it should still be fun.

Well, I need to see how I do with my online group, and I'll be trying 
to get my face-to-face group together as well.  Even more good news, I 
most likely will be going to Winona for Game A Thon this year.

Well I game with friends and am an auxillary helper in scheduling, although
usually we game each Friday like clockwork which helps.  Right now I am
attempting to scramble together a new group and I haven't got many takers yet
So far just hitting the local game shop with a flyer advertising a campaign.

The local Mage venue for the Camarilla is off and running, and it 
looks like it will go very well.  The cheesemongers that plague 
Cam/Anarch (Vampire) are leaving this one alone, thankfully.

Since my gaming group of a bunch of friends seems to have failed, I'm 
probably going to at least scope out U of Michigan's later this month.  
There, at least, I'm guaranteed some consistancy.  Twice a month, and 
almost always at the Student Onion.

Basically I just game with people I know. Many of them live in Ann 
Arbor, although some live in Lansing/Okemos.

The 3rd Ed. AD&D game turned into a RIFTS game, and we rotate where it 
is we play and at the end of one gaming session plan when and where we 
will play the neext game.

The other game I'm involved in- Mage, we play at a friend's and again, 
try to set up the next game at that game. 


I am attempting to run a game of my own... though the time for when 
that will be varies... a lot. Haven't had a chance to set up the 
initial game and getting everyone in the same place at the same time 
can be more of a challenge than playing the game!

The current Mage GM (and former AD&D GM) I happened to meet purely by 
chance a few years ago when I was going for a walk and met her while 
she was walking her dog. So I joined her Vampire game, which shortly 
ended and we started a Mage game (all table top by the way... I have a 
huge dislike for LARPs) and I got bhelliom involved in the Mage game. 

When 3rd Edition AD&D came out a friend of hers begged her to run a 
game, going so far as to buy the first couple books for her, and so I 
met new people when we started that game. And actually, it was because 
of that game that I met my boyfriend.

Disappointingly, when I went to the University of Michigan gaming club 
today, half an hour after official startign time there were still only 
2 people there.

Your story regarding meeting your boyfriend through gaming gives me 
hope on another relationship.

Hmm, I was a student at U of M, and never even knew that they had a 
gaming club...


And always glad to be of help. :)

Thanks, but I won't know anything for a while.  OTOH I did write her a 
friendly letter today.

A friend of mine is trying to draw me back into his Star Wars 
campaign.  I'm a little reluctant because the last time I was 
involved, it gave me shitfits and because I am losing patience with 
the d6 system.

I played a bounty hunter, simply for the reason that I felt I could 
pull it off.  I believe a good bounty hunter approaches the work as a 
job and looks as weapons as various tools.  But I had a housemate at 
the time who played the class just to be badass, and that annoyed me.  
Seemed too much of a power-gaming reason.  The other thing was several 
of the PCs had bounties on their heads.  Julie's character was a 
Wookiee-- that I could understand.  But the others were doing 
outlandish things and it seemed the GM was bent on preventing me from 
collecting the bounties-- even if I were to double-cross the Empire in 
doing so, say, if they somehow escaped later.  Completely 
unrealistic.  One of them always was trying to cut some NPC's head off 
every time we turned around, for some trivial reason or another, too.

The thing about the d6 system that really got to me was the fact that 
there is too much variation in points distribution and no two same 
levels will be comparable, simply because players will distribute 
points differently.  This would give me nightmares if I were to be the 
GM.  Players can be unpredictable enough as it is.  I am still 
deciding on the wild die-- another friend and longtime GM of mine 
hates it because you always have a 1 in 6 chance of screwing the 
pooch.  This GM likes it for the random rp value.

I still like the d20 system for the potential in class variation.  
Trouble is, this guy claims he has no one to teach it to him.  
(Excuses.)

I could play Mage tabletop, but I don't want to burn out on it-- I 
already do Vampire and Mage LARP.  (Yes, Anne has her opinions and I 
have mine, although I'll quickly make fun of the Cam.)  I learned Mage 
a LOT faster once I moved to LARP somehow, but I guess for some 
reason, the format forces you to learn the rules.

I presently have no other groups running.  My 3rd ed. D&D GM is 
involved in other stuff (he was the one that commented on d6 Star 
Wars, see above) and can't run the campaign we were doing.  My Cam 
group has done d20 Star Wars and Transformers, but apparently, haven't 
had room for additional members.

In addition to forming opinions about the games individually, whomever 
is GMing should also know about what zir players like and don't like.

I would hope so.  You gotta keep your players happy-- I hope he makes 
some minor adjustments so I'll consider coming back.

Pondering whether to post here, or make a new item to try various 
venues of getting a new group going . . .

Suit yourself.  My cflist doesn't mind either strategy.

I play with a group of friends. We have a regular weekly day and time; 
people check in if they can't make it for some reason. Once in a while 
enough absences pop up to warrant postponing until the next week.
I've visited a few of the clubs in the area (Kalamazoo) but haven't 
found one that seems a good fit.

My group was playing once a month for each game (there being two 
different games, one Mage, one 3rd ed. AD&D). Actually the group is 
still playing, but for many reasons I've decided to go on hiatus from 
the MAge game for a couple months.

Still gaming with the local Cam group; it's pretty much family and
friends now though (lots of games were held at my sister and
brother-in-law's house).

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