I'm very curious about the gaming habits of the regular readership of this blog. To that end, I have a few questions I'd like to ask.
If you're so inclined, please take a moment to reply in the comments to this post.
If you are currently playing in or refereeing a roleplaying game:
- What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
- How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
- How often do you meet to play?
If your are not currently playing in or refereeing a roleplaying game:
- How long has it been since you last played/refereed?
Thanks!
I have been running a 1st Edition AD&D campaign since fall of 2020. We meet every week, and run the game on roll20 (playing remotely).
ReplyDelete1. Old School Essentials
ReplyDelete2. 2 years
3. Once a week
1. playing: Scum and Villainy, Flying Circus, Barbarians of Lemuria
ReplyDelete2. duration: six months, 4 sessions, 1 sessions
3. frequency: started every other week but currently weekly, every other week, likely every other week
1. Playing Everway.
ReplyDelete2. One month.
3. It’s a play-by-post game on RPGnet.
I'm currently in two campaigns.
ReplyDeleteI have a weekly 5e D&D game. Right now I'm a player, but the DM and I switch off about every 6 months or a year, so I'm due to take the screen shortly. This group has been playing for at least 15 years, with some degree of personnel changes, but we haven't had a single campaign that long: it's about 50/50 about whether a new D&D means new characters, or extending the previous campaign. Since we're all level 19 now, I suspect we'll hit 20 for the Big Battle To Save The World From Demons soon, and then restart with some low level characters next.
I'm also running a biweekly Shadowrun game, except that while I love the SR setting I hate the rules. So we're currently using the Savage Worlds rules (with the SprawlRunners setting book) and I really love it. Highly recommend to any other fans of the SR setting.
ReplyDelete1. I am playing RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. I am also playing Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green and about to start Night Below for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (never, ever in the twenty-first century did I ever think I would be playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons again!). I am also playing Old School Essentials for B2 Keep on the Borderlands and also for The Lichway scenario from White Dwarf.
2. Both RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha campaigns have been going for a year, Impossible Landscapes for over a year.
3. Typically, these campaigns are every other week, so there is typically two to three gaming sessions a week. (Though real life being what it is, there may be as few as one or even no gaming in a week.)
4. In addition to this, there may be one-shots and convention games too.
1. AD&D (of course)
ReplyDelete2. This particular campaign started back in 2005, took a break and started up online about a year ago.
3. Every 2 weeks, but have been on hiatus since Dec.
1. A Rules Cyclopedia D&D campaign that has morphed into RuneQuest because the party is currently in Glorantha (they previously spent several months of real time in Tekumel, some time in Averoigne and after that, a fairly long stretch in Hell).
ReplyDelete2.Two years (or very close to it - can't remember if we started in March or April 2020).
3. Between three and five times a week (over Zoom more than in person). During lockdown, we were playing every day.
1. Old School Essentials
ReplyDelete2. 3 years
3. Monthly
I've most recently been a player in a very new campaign of Against the Darkmaster that had been going on for three sessions.
ReplyDeleteWe play once every two weeks
The game has been on hold for a month or so due to real life.
My next game as GM is scheduled for the 25th, and I'll be running Spire, the city must fall.
This is my first time running Spire, a test drive to see if it's worth investing into.
Spire is a cool setting but suffers a bit from the planetscape and rifts phenomena where there is too much cool stuff! It definitely will help yourself to constrain the area you are in and narrow the focus.
DeleteOn hold for the last week owing to health problems (not COVID, bad GI infection) but I fully intend to resume my current Sentinel Comics RPG game, which I've been running weekly (with a few breaks, all health or holiday related) for about 9 months now.
ReplyDeletePrior to that, I hadn't run or played anything since 2020 and the pandemic. Not a big fan of playing online, so isolation killed the gaming hobby for me.
That's a real shame. Not too different from my position.
DeleteI'm running a very sporadic OSE B1 right now (with a detour to a shrine I lifted from Silveraxe) with my kids/nephews/brother-in-law. I think we started early 2021. We last played in January, hoping to get another session within the next month. I also bought Forbidden Lands last year after reading your review of Mellified Mage and I'm planning to finally read through the rules next week on vacation.
ReplyDeleteWhat RPG(s) are playing/refereeing? How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
ReplyDeleteRecently finished playing Call of Cthulhu Delta Green (the old campaign from the 90s). Ca 8 sessions in all.
Playing AD&D 2nd ed, the intro adventure from the Forgotten Realms box. 5 sessions so far.
Playing Mutant Elysium. 4 sessions so far.
I'll soon be returning to referee my Warlords of the Moon campaign for our swedish osr-clone Svärd & Svartkonst. 27 sessions so far.
How often do you meet to play?
One or two sessions a week. So for a particular game we will have a session roughly every other week.
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteI am in two groups that play using Zoom. Both are ostensibly weekly, but due to various events, usually only meet twice per month or thereabouts.
The oldest group consists of about five to seven, depending on who all can play. We have been playing for about two years, and usually play either 5E or Labyrinth Lord. Half of us are game masters, and we switch around a lot, depending on who can play and when. Two run only 5E; another runs her own soon-to-be-published game system (which rocks); and I have run 5E but prefer to run Labyrinth Lord. The two 5E DMs have run Frost Maiden and Avernus and two homebrews in 5E; the third has run a dungeon crawl of her own device; and I have run Temple of Elemental Evil (5E), Wilderlands (LL), and Mike's World (LL).
The other game is relatively new (two months) and consists of three players and a game master, all old friends of mine from my childhood/high school game group. We are playing Blades in the Dark, an interesting RPG in a new style; my friend got the game and wanted to run it, so we are trying it out. I have very much enjoyed it so far, while I generally am not big on new game systems, I find this one to be very interesting, and meshes very well with the world (a fantasy post-apocalyptic grimdark urban setting).
1. Now I refereeing two Mythras: Classic Fantasy campaigns (Lost Mine of Phandelver & Waterdeep: Dragon Heist) and eventually some CoC one-two shot, and playing Traveller (Pirates of Drinax)
ReplyDelete2. We started Lost Mine of Phandelver in december 2021 and Dragon Heist in september 2021, but that campaign came after a hiatous from a previous LMoP we played from May 2020 to December 2020. Pirates of Drinax started october 2020
3. LMoP and Pirates of Drinax weekly and online (Roll20) and W:DH on table every month or so (Sometimes we played 2-3 sessions even weekly but we often make long pauses)
D&D Black Box (Denning/Brown)
ReplyDelete3 months
Monthly
1. What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing? Also how often, and for how long?
ReplyDelete- I GM a weekly Pathfinder 2E campaign, running consistently since 2015 when we started with 1st Ed. Changed to 2nd Ed shortly after its release.
- I also GM a bi-weekly Low Fantasy Gaming campaign, coming up on 1 year now.
- I play in a bi-weekly Hyperborea 3rd Ed campaign, running for about 15 months so far.
- And I play in a bi-weekly Dungeon World campaign, running for almost a year.
I think Hyperborea is my favorite. But honestly that is more due to the world in which it is set, than the rules system itself. The rules are good, but I also really like the Low Fantasy Gaming system (campaign set in my homebrew world).
One: I’m an exclusive play-by-post GM. Right now, I’m GMing a hardboiled mystery, using the Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes rules (emphasis on the Private Eyes for this game).
ReplyDeleteTwo: The game has been running for 13 months.
Three: Posts are daily, Monday-Friday. Most players choose to post on Saturday, sometimes Sunday. We’ve exceeded 4,200 posts. It’s a solo (one player and the GM); the game has four players, having their own mystery in a private thread. One player has successfully completed the game, leaving three active players.
* In January, Castle Amber was COMPLETED, using D&D Expert (1981). It ran for 19 months, had 3,996 posts, and had a different crew of players than the one mentioned above. Unlike the mystery, it was a group game.
* Truly, everyday is game day when you play-by-post
I'm not familiar with this method of game play. How can you make progress with nothing more than a "daily" post? Could you elaborate on how it works, or perhaps refer me to some online resources?
DeleteI played in an OD&D play by post that ran almost 10 years. I worked an elf up to Fighter 4 MU 7 before the GM ended the campaign. Sometimes there would be a couple back and forth posts in a day, sometimes we'd go a week (or more) without posting. Progress is slow, but it does happen.
DeleteHi Norwegian Blue, thanks for asking.
DeleteThe one post per day, Monday-Friday, is the minimum required. That's considered lightning-fast (for some reason) in play-by-post. I ask for it in the games I GM so we can actually complete adventures (another rarity in PbP). At times, there are as many as 20 posts per day, but each player has to post at least one post per day, Mon-Fri. More is always welcome.
Progress is made, probably faster than you'd think. The Castle Amber module took 19 months and almost 4,000 posts, but we finished it, and that was with a completely fleshed-out Averoigne with NPCs and side treks galore. Around a tabletop, Castle Amber would probably take 12-15 sessions, at 3 hours each. What's that, 3 months, maybe?
So, you have to be patient, but the only difference is communicating in writing rather than telling the GM what you want to do. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same. Writing, over oratory skills, takes precedent : )
I've been GMing games via play-by-post for 11 years now, without pause, and have finished many adventures/campaigns. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done or is in any way less of an experience than what you get around a tabletop. In a lot of ways, play-by-post is better.
Everyday is game day when you play-by-post.
Thank you for the reply, Radnoff!
DeleteRunning:
ReplyDeleteStar Trek Adventures, Bi-weekly, in our 6th Year
Traveller, Classic w/Houserules, Weekly, about 6 months.
Champions, 4th Edition, Weekly, about 5 months
About to start Star Wars D6, 2nd Edition, Monthly.
Playing:
Harry Potter/Hogwarts, Homebrew based on Powered by the Apocalypse, Bi-weekly, a little over 5 years.
1 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
ReplyDelete2 Almost two years
3 Weekly rpg sessions, however the campaign is "always on" so name level PC down time requests can be made at any time and Chainmail-scale battles are also resolved outside of normal sessions.
1. I've been refereeing a Hyperborea (AS&SH) Campaign since 2018 - currently running them through a de-Tolkienfied Court of Ardor
ReplyDelete2. Just started playing in a new Call of Cthulu game going through the Masks of Nyarlathotep. Just finished our fourth session in about a month and a half. Using surviving characters from earlier games.
Regarding: "currently running them through a de-Tolkienfied Court of Ardor"
DeleteAwesome! This is a longstanding goal of mine (as I explain here: https://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-court-of-ardor.html).
I hope that this will be the next campaign I run. (I'd probably use "Against the Darkmaster" to do so.) :)
Forgot #3
ReplyDeleteWeekly for AS&SH game (3-4 hour sessions)
Bi Weekly for CoC (3-4 hour sessions)
I'm playing in two campaigns. One is a weekly D&D 5e campaign that has been going since November of 2020. The other is an OVA campaign that meets roughly once a month (as long as real life doesn't get in the way) and has been on going for approximately five years.
ReplyDeleteI haven't run anything since March of 2020.
1. RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu
ReplyDelete2. RQ - 43+ years, CoC - 41 years
3. Face to Face - RQ - 2-3 times a month, CoC - 1 every 6-8 weeks
but communications/actions between players or players vs the GM can occur at any time.
Wow! Surely some sort of record. That’s great!
Delete1. Old School Essentials
ReplyDelete2. Two campaigns since 2019
3. One face-to-face campaign with my kids no regular schedule (60 something sessions). One online campaign on roll20 with the old group about monthly (22 sessions).
1. Group A, 1e Oriental Adventures
ReplyDeleteGroup B, 7e Call of Cthulhu
2. Group A starting next week, referee
Group B second session tonight, referee
3. Group A meets weekly 6-10pm Sundays
Group B meets weekly 6:30-9:30 Thursdays
Group A has been going strong since 2004, Group B since 2018
1. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.
ReplyDelete2. This campaign has been running since 2013.
3. Roll20; was in-person before the plague hit.
Playing basic d&d every Wednesday for 3 years and running a basic d&d campaign every Sunday, been going on for 4 years now.
ReplyDelete1. I am running Patrick Stuart's Silent Titans via Roll20.
ReplyDelete2. We've played four sessions, since mid February.
3. We play each Sunday evening.
I'm meeting up with my group tomorrow for the first time since the pandemic began, to discuss playing in person again, and what we will play when we do. I don't know what that will mean for my Silent Titans game.
I'm sorry to report I'm in the "not currently playing or refereeing" category (but am perennially planning to start a new campaign "next month").
ReplyDeleteThe last session I ran was a 5th edition one-shot for a friend and his son last summer, so June/July 2021. Before that I was a player in an online Forbidden Lands campaign, but bowed out in January 2021 when my daughter was born and nights became a little more unpredictable.
I'm down to one game of Call of Cthulhu that is pretty much monthly. We've been playing since August of 2019, though mostly now over Roll20 or other internet meeting software. Since one of the original ideas for the campaign was to have food native to wherever our Investigators were in the world, that's been (potentially) disappointing, but since we've mostly been in the US and England so far, not actually as disappointing as we'd initially feared. However, our characters are leaving England for more exotic lands soon, so…
ReplyDelete1) BX/ LL/ OSE/ with bits of DCC, LotFP, S&W, ACKs, B&T, AD&D....
ReplyDelete2) Started 7 April 2015 - 7 yrs
3) Weekly (more or less)
Well, at least I know what AD&D stands for! :)
DeleteNot playing/refereeing. How long? More than 5 years, less than 10… I think.
ReplyDeleteBeen playing modified AD&D/Castles & Crusades
ReplyDeletesporadically with the kids for about 4 years, but we recently started playing ICRPG which they like a lot more; they're actually willing to make their own characters!
GMing: Mothership (near future horror sci fi)
ReplyDeleteCampaign almost a year in- face to face except for a couple months we played online due to covid lockdowns & associated complications
Play roughly fortnightly
Started a a mini break from homebrewed 0e/lotfp frankensystem but we liked the change & gonna let the campaign run it's course.
Then I'll probably run a oD&Dish hack & someone else in the group will run Mothership alternating times or as a fill in. We're not done with space horror completely just yet.
The pandemic cut off one game I was playing and one I was refereeing, both 5e. Nothing since then, so about 2 years. We also recently moved to a new city, and I'm finishing a dissertation and trying to find a job, so unfortunately there hasn't been a lot of opportunity.
ReplyDeleteIf I were going to play, though, I'd love to run or play 13th Age again. I wrote a 13th Age one-shot for my family, who had never played a TTRPG before, and they had a good time.
s/your/you're/
ReplyDeleteIt has been six years since I last regularly played, at which time I GM'd an Eclipse Phase game.
1. I'm refereeing a D&D campaign and another campaign using a homebrew fantasy RPG ruleset.
ReplyDelete2. The D&D game has only had 2 sessions so far, the homebrew campaign started in 1999.
3. D&D: every other Saturday; homebrew: twice a year these days.
1. Playing D&D 5th edition, with "lite" games like ACSLB and various Lasers & Feelings hacks to fill in the gaps.
ReplyDelete2. Just started a new campaign with a couple of months ago; previous one ran for four or five years.
3. Once a week almost every week, although if the GM (or too many players) can't make it the people who can meet will generally play a one-shot as noted above.
I am refereeing a monthly OD&D campaign from September 2021 using Chainmail for combat.
ReplyDeleteStar Frontiers, CoC 1930's, prewar Greyhawk using Harnmaster 3 rules.
ReplyDeleteRef Star Frontiers monthly since 2017, ref'ng Greyhawk campaign over 10 years, player for friends CoC game, meet roughly every 3-4 months since 2018. In March of 2020 we stopped until early May 2020 and picked up play again.
The Tuesday Knights meet every Tuesday night! We pretty much play d20 and change DMs and campaigns once a year. Last year I GM’d Star Trek Adventures. Now we're back to 5e. It's been online via Roll20 or Foundry for the last two years. This group has been playing for at least 12 years.
ReplyDeleteThe Monday group of neighborhood guys (we also are the core of the poker group) plays Pathfinder every other week. We've been going though Rise of the Rune Lords for four years now? We started meeting in person again back at Christmas. Last year I ran and OSE campaign online alternating every other week with another player who GM’d The Emerald Spire.
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing? DM for Swords & Wizardry, Player for OSRIC game.
ReplyDeleteHow long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)? The Swords & Wizardry is almost 2 years. We just completed session 85. The OSRIC is about a year session 26.
How often do you meet to play? Schedule for once per week but it is occasionally cancelled.
Currently only playing, in a Deadlands campaign that started two or three years ago, and a homebrew "Swords & Wizardry Complete++" playtest. Both are bi-weekly with occasional pauses. I would continue my OSE and Zweihänder campaigns if I could, but alas with an eight month old by our side that's not an easy task.
ReplyDeleteI am the referee of a Fantasy campaign (based on Golden Voyages, and old TSR supplement, part of Al-Qadim) but we use Mini Six as rules.
ReplyDeleteIt has been running for almost 2 years, now (I started it soon after the Pandemic).
We play online (I am in Germany, another player is in Belgium and 2 are from Italy), once a week, on average.
I'm running a game of Stonetop, which has been going for 30 weeks so far, and we play over a week for 2 hours.
ReplyDelete1. AD&D 2e, Pathfinder 1e (2 games), Pathfinder 2e, and a homebrew game based on the Pokemon Franchise.
ReplyDelete2. (in order) 17 years, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 6 years
3. (in order) Weekly (Thursdays 7pm-11pm), Weekly (Sundays 6pm-10pm), Weekly (Tuesdays 9pm-1am), Daily (play-by-post), and Daily (play by post).
I'm playing Bushido every 2 weeks, I'm player, it will be our 5th session.
ReplyDeleteI'm gming "Traverser", a solarpunk rpg where you play young women in their twenties, ex-soldiers with quantum powers, in a world where the reality rewove itself. It's a game by Paul Czege, still in playtest. Playing every week since july 2021.
I'm also gming Runequest Glorantha, every week, as a duet game, and we just started.
My kids and I have been playing a BX/Labyrinth Lord style game for about a year. Sometimes Grandma and Mama will join in, but that is rare. We don't play regularly or often, even though my son asks quite often. I have one play report with dungeon on my blog and another one that is not quite finished.
ReplyDelete1 - Fading Suns - Castles & Crusades
ReplyDelete2 - 3 months - 1 year
3 - once every two weeks, online - every week, online
1) GURPS
ReplyDelete2) 11 years
3) Roughly every other week - averages around 20 times a year
Running: D&D 5e using "Greyhawk Classics" (currently GG's version of The Temple of Elemental Evil; in the future: White Plume Mountain, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, etc.).
ReplyDeleteStarted fall 2019, but on hiatus from January 2020 to January 2022 (i.e., we recently restarted, so the PCs are only 3rd level).
We try to meet every week (for 2.5 hours online) but typically manage 2-3 times per month.
Playing: Mythic Babylon (Mythras)
I joined the campaign July 2020 (it had started a year earlier). (I've played a lot of Mythras/RQ with this group, off and on, over the past decade.)
We usually meet twice every month for 3-4 hours.
It's been a long time for either, but I'm working on getting a C&C (mostly) game up and running.
ReplyDeleteMy weekly game just finished a multiweek one shot of secret of salt marsh I ported to 5th Ed on the fly. Another member is now firing up the fall out 2d20 game by modipheous.the group has games together for years and rotates through 2 to 3 systems a year.
ReplyDeleteBiweekly I'm a player in an iron sworn game. Few months in. The gm has hopped systems a few times since covid started.
I gm a newly started scum and villainy game with some (reunited) high school friends. 3 sessions in.....every 3 weeks ish.
I'm Dungeon Mastering a 1st Ed. AD&D game. We've been playing for about 15 months. We meet every Saturday night at 9pm and play until 1am Pacific. I think we've missed 3 sessions so far. Let me know if you want more information.
ReplyDeleteI'm not playing anything right now; the last time I was actually a player was in 2008 (4e D&D with students at the university where I am a faculty member.) I may end up playing in an Against the Darkmaster game (one of my friends wants me to run Against the Darkmaster, which I don't feel up to yet.)
ReplyDeleteI have run some short-term games for my daughters during the pandemic: 5e D&D, Faery's Tale, and Magical Kitties Save The Day. Post-pandemic, I would like to run RQ2 if I could find takers, or RQ: Roleplaying in Glorantha.
I will also add that a while ago, James mentioned wanting to run an Old West game; I would love to play in such a game.
DeletePlaying 5e D&D with a group that's in-person about monthly right now; this month we're taking a break to try Pathfinder 2E.
ReplyDeleteRunning M&M 2E on roll20 with a group bi-weekly; that group was playing 5e earlier & the DM asked for a break from running so I volunteered to run some Supers.
Playing in a D&D 3e game that's been monthly in person, but we've been having a little trouble with scheduling recently. (Hope it's not dead!)
I'm currently running amore Borg/White Box hybrid. We're been playing the current campaign for about four months now and play every other week.
ReplyDeleteMy group (4 adults, ages late 30s to mid 50s) meets every other Saturday, for 5 hours of play. Myself and one other player are the primary GMs.
ReplyDeleteWe wrapped up a year-and-a-half B/X (OSE) campaign, run by the other primary GM. I am going to run the next 4-9 months, and have been running a series of 1-shots to see what they like. We tried "Wild West Cinema" (they loved it), "Far Trek" (they loved it), and Star Wars WEG d6 (they didn't like it). They asked for a second game of Far Trek before making their decision.
I also run a game of B/X for my kids and their friends (ages 13-15) every other week for 3 hours a shot.
Delete1) Refereeing 1e (OSRIC), Playing 5e
ReplyDelete2) The 1e campaign is in year 4. The 5e campaign is a fill-in game that we have been doing for two years or so.
3) The 1e campaign is every Sunday evening (more or less). If the whole group can't meet for 1e then then one of the 1e players runs the 5e game.
1. Refereeing Ghostbusters RPG (1e) and Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.
ReplyDelete2. A few years.
3. Irregularly.
1: AD&D/Runequest Homebrew (play), D&D 5E (Play), Stars Without Number (run), Mechwarrior 3rd Edition (run)
ReplyDelete2. 2+ years, month (new campaign), 1 year+, 6 months
3. Weekly (AD&D), Every other week (others)
1. Lamentations of the flame princess.
ReplyDelete2. 12 months.
3. Every week.
I'm running Alien Orifice, which is my own science fantasy campaign + house rules based on White Box: FMAG (which is based on S&W Whitebox, which is in turn based on OD&D).
ReplyDeleteI've been running this campaign (via Zoom) since a few weeks after the start of the pandemic, so almost two years.
We try to play weekly but in practice (due to work and other commitments) it's more like 2-3 times per month on average.
I am not playing or running a game now. I started a game to try to get my 9 year old daughter into the game about a year ago, and she's asked me if we could do it again, so my guess is that I'll run an AD&D campaign for her, my wife and possibly a couple of her friends from school in the next month or two.
ReplyDeleteHiya. Um, I'm running a variant OD&D/Basic/AD&D campaign, Eldorath, that I've been running since the late 80s on and off. We play Fridays, with a few breaks for Circus Imperium, and my buddy's D&D Basic game, where we just cleared out the Caves of Chaos. Once in a while we play Starships and Spacemen but in a Star Fleet Battles vein. welp, Happy gaming!
ReplyDeleteAdvanced Labyrinth Lord - 1.5 years+
ReplyDeleteD6 Adventure - 1 month
D6 Star Wars 1e - soon to start
I hope your SW 1e works better than my attempt. My Players felt the roll-counter roll* of WEG D6 was too clunky for a cinematic type property like Star Wars.
Delete*Roll to hit, if hit target rolls to dodge, if dodge doesn't beat attack roll then roll damage, target rolls strength to oppose damage, compare damage roll to strength roll to see if stunned/wounded/etc.
I actually agree. I’ll be using the Fixed Defense rules from Mini Six. This uses set numbers derived from ability scores/skills rather than opposed rolls.
DeleteI haven't refereed a game since Covid struck (almost exactly two years now). I look forward to getting back to it, once my library resumes D&D programming. And I think I'll be making a push for Traveller as well.
ReplyDeletePlaying OD&D but so house ruled as to be unrecognizable, meets every other week, been playing about 30 years but the campaign goes back to the dawn about 45 years. Refereeing OSE, meets every other week, current group has been playing about 18 months but campaign goes back 15 years.
ReplyDeleteRefereeing D&D 5e, 1-2 sessions per month, face-to-face; based on the the Saltmarsh campaign book, about 6 months, but it's mostly the same group that played 2 years of 5e before that.
ReplyDeletePlaying Twilight:2000 v2.2, frequency is all over the place, online. We started last summer, but there was a long break over the fall and winter.
1. Classic Traveller; Delta Green RPG x2 — first is a setting and adventures of our own design, sandboxy; DG are both from published adventures (Coming Full Circle + Realm of Shadows from Pagan publishing; Masks of Nyarlathotep + Impossible Landscapes from Chaosium and Arc Dream)
ReplyDelete2. Weekly, all
3. Three years; three years; six months
1. 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, the way I run it has a lot more of an old-school pulp fantasy feel (is it any wonder why I love this blog?).
ReplyDelete2. I've been running a few games of it since early last year. Been a lot of fun!
3. Weekly, and online. Sometimes it can be a bit of a hassle with scheduling and everything, but we generally try and make it work.
I'm not currently gaming, but that's only because I'm in baby jail (since early November). When I left off, I was somewhere near the two-year mark running a 13th Age campaign that convened for a couple sessions a month.
ReplyDeleteI currently run one regular game, extensively house ruled Classic D&D West Marches campaign, and one irregular game, Star Wars d6 campaign more or less by the book.
ReplyDeleteI've been running the West Marches game for just about five years. It meets twice a month.
The Star Wars game has been going on for a little over two years. We play whenever I've got something prepared and I need a break from West Marches.
As a player, I just started playing in a game of Into the Odd last week. There are also a few games I've played in irregularly over the past two or three years, one being a house ruled Black Hack post-apocalypse game, the other being a GURPS game set in the world of The Boys comics/TV show, but 1980s.
I also play in several play-by-post games. AD&D 1E game since 2011, 5E D&D West Marches game since 2017, Star Frontiers since 2018, 5E Storm King's Thunder campaign that started last year, and another AD&D 1E game that just started about a month ago (same DM as the other 1E and Star Frontiers games). Since these are PbP, it's ongoing rather than session based.
Have played D&D, exclusively, off and on for 40+ years. Haven't played in 2-3 years. Would love to find a game.
ReplyDeletePlaying In:
ReplyDelete1. Tekumel campaign: Started in the late 1980s in the Ferinara Province. In 2017 we restarted in a new campaign setting on Burru Isle. We have monthly sessions in person.
2. D&D 5th Ed.: Started in 2020, but part of a longer running group, we meet once or twice monthly, in person.
3. Savage Worlds; Weird War One: Started in 2019. We play twice monthly on Discord
GM:
1. Human Space Empires: Started in January of this year. We play once or twice per month on Discord.
2. Granite City Heroes: This is a home brewed RPG of my own creation. Dystopian, Dieselpunk, Noir. Started in 2018. We play monthly.
3. It is odd that I am between running my own Tekumel campaign, I have been running them since 2006 and as far back as 1978.
I look forward to playing in Vaults of sha-Arthan.
1. In two weekly sessions of about 4 hours each. One is a GROG (skerples pirate hack of Glog) game I DM that's on twenty sessions in, been playing since June-ish of last year. Other game is a Pathfinder game I play in, that I've been playing in for about the last 4-5 or so months. The game itself started before I joined, though.
ReplyDeleteBeyond the Pale: B/X D&D, 1 month, biweekly+
ReplyDeleteFortune & Glory: Holmes Basic D&D, 2 months, biweekly°
Wyrmwyrd: B/X D&D, 9 months, monthly*+
Dreaming Amon-Gorloth: Holmes Basic D&D, 12 months, weekly*+
Spells End: Holmes Basic D&D, 20 months, infrequent and irregular*
House of Worms: Petal Throne, 7 years, weekly°
+ DM | ° Online | * Solo
I distinguish between solo play (*) and solo DM (*+). So far, I am incapable of describing the difference in words. Something in the approach feels different.
1. Refereeing The Enemy Within campaign for WFRP 4e
ReplyDelete2. 5 months (after a 27 year break from RPGs!)
3. Weekly
1. Playing Pathfinder. Playing Barbarians of the Ruined Earth. Running Black Hack.
ReplyDelete2. Pathfinder for 3 years. BotRE for a few months. Black Hack for a couple of years.
3. Pathfinder weekly. BotRE kind of randomly at weekends and during school holidays as my daughter is running it. Black Hack is PbP.
1. Refereeing Traveller5
ReplyDelete2. Since September 2021
3. One session per week
1. As gamemaster: S.L.A. Industries 2nd Edition / As player: Helveczia (picaresque old-school roleplay set in 17th century Switzerland and inspired by Baron Munchausen, Brothers Grimm, Etc.)
ReplyDelete2. S.L.A. for about six months - Helveczia for about one year
3. Both once a week, S.L.A. in person (after 2 years of OSE played on Roll d20) and Helveczia on Roll d20
Wow, so great to see so many gamers!
ReplyDeleteI haven't played in 10 years, and would like to run some 1e in a year or two when I can make time for it. In the meantime, I enjoy reading systems and adventures, this blog, and hearing about my son's regular Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, and (soon) GURPS campaigns.
Running a Swords & Wizardry Complete with house rules bi-weekly, going on for about 2 years now. Running a BFRPG game with house rules bi-weekly, just started. Playing in a B/X game bi-weekly, going on 2 years now (run by New Big Dragon - Richard LeBlanc, to test B/X game stuff).
ReplyDelete1. I'm presently running a MechWarrior: Destiny game.
ReplyDelete2. We have played four sessions, but bad to interject two sessions of Over the Edge, due to logistical issues.
3. In theory bi-weekly, but there have sometimes been health related or logistical interruptions.
I've played with the same group for a few years now, Fate in Tekumel, S&W in Tekumel, Call of Cthulhu and Forbidden Lands. As I'm an avid collector, and also loves the new shiny, we don't play long campaigns in session counts. But, as we not play that often it quite often means long durations in time anyway.
Currently running: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, since September 2021.
ReplyDeleteCurrently playing; D&D 5th Edition, since October 2021.
Also playing: Gamma World 4th Edition, since January 2022. (This one is only planned to last one more session.)
My group meets every Tuesday and those of us who GM take turns doing so.
1. Edge of Empire
ReplyDelete2. 3 years
3. Once a month
I'm playing 5e; running Ghosts of Saltmarsh on Roll20. I started this game last year on Roll20 because we could not meet in person. I'm finishing it out online because I spent the money. We play once a week for 4 hours a session.
ReplyDeleteI'm running a Pathfinder 2 game weekly. The current campaign is about six months old; the group has been meeting for 14 years. Over that time we've mostly played the most recent WotC game, but have spent time playing 2nd edition, MERP, TMNT, and ACKS
ReplyDeleteI'm running an ACKS campaign on its 5th year. We're playing online weekly or biweekly.
ReplyDeleteRunning a campaign of THE FANTASY TRIP (Legacy edition).
ReplyDeleteOur current campaign has been running continuously for about 2 and a half years (though in a broader sense it has been going on for 40+ years with the same players and world setting).
We play once weekly, on average.
I run weekly D&D 5e and Traveller Mongoose 2e campaigns. I also play OSE and various odds and sorts (CoC, ALIEN, One Ring) once a week.
ReplyDeleteWhat RPG(s) are playing/refereeing? Nothing
ReplyDeleteHow long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)? N/A
How often do you meet to play? N/A
If your are not currently playing in or refereeing a roleplaying game:
How long has it been since you last played/refereed? 7 years (had a trial of 5E and played the intro module), and then before that I haven't played anything since I left Uni in 1989.
Well, for the record, it's with the family. It's AD&D, with basic D&D thrown in when needed/wanted. It also includes a mishmash of other systems. Pendragaon, MERPS, LoTR. It's out of the Greyhawk world, but again a mishmash. Much Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms and a host of other settings have been put into the mix. We don't play as much anymore, as the kids are older. But we still get around to it. Used to be about once a week.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in a long time, I'm not running anything. I was running OD&D 1974 for my wife weekly until we both got too busy.
ReplyDeleteI'm playing in a bi-weekly Traveller campaign that has been going for about 3 years. It's down to only 4 players + Ref right now.
I was playing in a large bi-weekly "West Marches" style OSE game for about a year but it went on hiatus about 6 months ago so it may be permanently done.
Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition.
ReplyDeleteST once a week in a 3-month campaign, play in 2 others once a week that have been going for 6 months.
All remote via D_scord/R_ll20 due to COVID.
Running via Roll20 alternating weeks:
ReplyDeleteRuneQuest 1st edition (1978) Glorantha campaign, started June 2018
RuneQuest 1st edition (1978) thieves campaign set in Gamelords Haven and Thieves Guild, started May 2021
Running via Play by Post at the speed of posting - sometimes pretty slow
Cold Iron Samurai Adventures - Cold Iron is a 1980s home brew a college friend developed that I ran extensively through the 1980s while in college, just started a couple months ago
Playing via Play By Post at the speed of posting - sometimes pretty slow
AD&D 1e, started June 2018
Bushido, started September 2020 originally with me as GM but handed over to one of the players
Bushido, started April 2021
Classic Traveller, started June 2018
Classic Traveller, started June 2019
Labyrinth Lord, started January 2022
1) AD&D
ReplyDelete2) 10 years
3) averages out to be monthly
Refereeing an Offworlders (PbtA Traveller-like) game, weekly, since Oct. 2019.
ReplyDeletePlaying in a Villains & Vigilantes PBEM based on the Legion of Superheroes since March 2016. Turn around is every few days, usually.
Playing in a D&D 5th Edition game via Discord or Teams since Dec. 2021. Only managing to meet once a month or so at the moment.
Running a weekly campaign of Legacy of the Bieth, my personal campaign setting using a WIP OSR ruleset borrowed from a friend (and patching any holes with B/X until I finalize the intended rules). It's been running since Nov 2021, but December was a skip month for holidays reasons.
ReplyDelete1. Barbarians of Lemuria
ReplyDelete2. Started the campaign just three weeks ago
3. Play weekly
1. I'm running AD&D 1E and Champions, playing Pulp Cthulhu and D&D 5E and Traveler
ReplyDelete2. AD&D: 36 years. Champions: about 20 years on and off. Pulp Cthulhu: about 2 years. D&D 5e: About 5 years. Traveler: About 8 years on and off
3. Twice a week
Last played an RPG close to three decades ago. I had been playing a lot of board games before the pandemic hit and since then have rediscovered an interest in RPGs. Currently I am looking at adapting Ars Magica to a more authentic medieval flavor, á la Fantasy Wargaming.
ReplyDeleteI'm playing a post-apocalyptic homebrew D&D 5e campaign. The current campaign has been going 3 years and could easily run 3 more. I've run for many decades now (since about '86). I've played since '81. Our game is every 2 weeks. In the off weeks I play in a friend's game who started in about the same era.
ReplyDeleteMostly playing, almost exclusively online. I'm playing "Revolution d100" every Sunday night on Fantasy Grounds. I'm playing "Adventures in Middle Earth" every other Thursday night and I'm also refereeing and alternative game of AiME when the main game is on hiatus. Next time this alternative game will shift to RuneQuest Glorantha. During the last two years I've been refereeing RuneQuest and quite a bit of Stormbringer, plus some D&D5 and AiME sessions and like 2-3 Gumshoe nights. I've also run 4Against Darkness as a super-light quasi-rpg. I've played Revolution d100, AiME, Gumshoe (Cthulhu Confidential) and one session of Scarlet Heroes.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm in 4 games:
ReplyDelete- I'm playing an Eberron Campaign (as a player) for D&D 5e. We play this game once every two months, more or less.
- I'm playing Lost City (Goodman Games adaptation) for D&D 5e, with the same players as the above game, but as a DM. I play this once a month, more or less (it's the replacement game for the other campaign).
I'm nor particularly OK with this (I don't like 5e) but this is the predicament that I have to live with. But, luckily, I'm playing more.
- I'm playing ACKS in a gonzo-hexcrawl setting, on the second and fourth saturday of each month.
- I'm playing Rappan Atuk (D&D 3.5) each wednesday.
The first two games are in person, the late two, online.
1. a. GURPS (Player); b. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy RPG (GM); c. D&D (player).
ReplyDelete2. a. Since 2015; b. since 2017; c. this campaign since 2019 or so.
3. a. Around 20 times per year; b. around 10 times per year (much higher in the first part of the pandemic where it was like 3x/month); c. a few times per year. Mixture of online and in person.
Do you have a blog for the game you're running?
DeleteWhat RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDelete5e D&D
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
2 years
How often do you meet to play?
2 5 hour sessions a month
Playing in one 5e Campaign (4 years) every other week, refereeing in one 5e campaign (6 months) whenever we have a spare lunch break and we are both in the office and one 3e/pathfinder/homebrew PBeM campaign (22 years) two turns a week.
ReplyDeleteIt's so refreshing to see such a range of systems in play.
ReplyDeleter/osr is depressing lately as it seems to be an alternate store front for OSE and cheerleader for the homogeneity and conformity of the hobby.
Glad to see people keeping it real and mixing it up.
looks like I'm way late to the party.
ReplyDeleteWe moved a year ago to a temporary home, and my normal gaming routine stopped.
I run a one/two shot with my daughter (and sometimes the Mrs.) once in awhile. Maybe, 6 or 7 times over the past year.
I use the Dungeons RPG game (a simple version of Dungeon World that I find works much better than any basic D&D variations introducing kids/novices to gaming)
You can find it here (it's free)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1FTeBGuIwMnX0prSnlOaTh5UU0/view?resourcekey=0-BqTQAS5aIhMzT2RO5bMyqw
Posting this here as a follow up to my exchange with Radnoff above because I thought it might be helpful to one or two other folks.
ReplyDeleteI am 50+ years old and not very tech savvy, so the entirety of my experience with RPG's has been of the basement gathering variety. Friends and family have faded away from my RPG circle over the years due to other life commitments. I've looked into local meet-up options to connect with other gamers, but haven't had much luck, maybe due to Covid? So I had recently resigned myself to "retiring" from actual game play, and just enjoying reading books (and blogs like this), painting figures, and attending the occasional Con.
I was wholly unaware of the "play by post" world until Radnoff mentioned it. (I'm not active on social media or message boards, until a few months ago I'd never even heard of "Discord", and no fellow gamers had ever mentioned PbP before.)
After doing a little research it appears that there is a sub-Reddit (r/pbp) dedicated to the subject, and I'm sure if I keep searching online I'll find some gaming groups that might be worth joining.
So, big thanks to James for this thread, and to all the rest for your contributions, and especially to Radnoff, for introducing me to something new.
Glad to be of service, Norwegian Blue. I GM at Roleplay Online (rpol.net). Give it a look. I prefer the site for its ease of use, and well, the fact that I’ve been there eleven years. There are thousands of games taking place all the time, around the clock.
DeleteJust registered on RPOL. Username 1492. Thanks again, Radnoff.
Delete1 Currently playing in several Play-by-Post games as my current IRL group doesn't do "roleplaying" (it's a boardgame group) and I don't have time for more than one game night a week. Playing in several GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Powered by GURPS (aka GURPS DFRPG), Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Weird War II, The Expanse, Degenesis, and Amber Diceless RPG.
ReplyDeleteNot currently running anything, but I've spent 7 years pushing words around in my growing word doc for a GURPS DFRPG game I have ideas, but no players for...
2 Most of the games I've been in for several, the longest (GURPS DFRPG), I joined in August 2015.
3 As they are PbP, I tend to post every few days as the thread speed demands.
Follow up:
I haven't run or played in a face-to-face game in just over a decade, that game group moved to the Carolinas and I haven't had time to replace them yet.
1) Currently playing 5e D&D campaign (combination Lost Mines of Phandelver and Tyranny of Dragons)
ReplyDelete2) Started in Fall 2017 with a six month break in 2020 (during the break we played Mongoose Traveller 2e Pirates of Drinax)
3) We try to play a 90 minute session weekly over Roll20 - in usually ends up 2-3 sessions a month.
Not currently playing. My last campaign was a 5th edition campaign that wrapped up in May of 2021. I was also in another 5thed campaign that kind of fizzled out around March of 2021. I keep entertaining the idea of running either a Call or C'Thulhu campaign, or maybe a OSE campaign over Discord, but I just lack the energy and motivation right now. Two years of COVID has left me completely lonely, yet without the motivation to change that status.
ReplyDelete1. I'm currently refereeing D&D 5th Edition. It's far from my favorite, but it's the only thing most players in my area know, and I'm building up confidence in my players to convince them to try 1e.
ReplyDelete2. I've been running a campaign with Monte Cook's Ptolus sourcebook for 11 sessions, starting last October, so 5 months. We meet weekly but have large gaps due to exams and breaks.
3. We usually go for 4 hours, rarely over that, sometimes as little as 3.
1. Currently DMing 5E D&D Castle Amber for my son. brother and friend.
ReplyDelete2. Been playing on and off for 2 years due to the pandemic
3. We are back to in person weekly sessions a couple of hours a week.
1. AD&D 2e
ReplyDelete2. 2 years.
3. Weekly
Me and my friends hadnt played D&D in over 15 years before our current campaign. We discovered roll 20 during the pandemic and are having a great time with our old hobby.
Currently playing in a weekly Monday night online group that rotates DMs and systems. We recently began a small Twilight 2000 campaign. This group’s been together since 2016;
ReplyDeletePlaying in an online OSE play test. Just started that last week;
I’ve been DMing an online biweekly (currently on hiatus) OSE campaign since 2019; and
Ive been running a small weekly OSE campaign for my 9 yr old since last November.
Last game was in-person B2 Keep on the Borderlands via OSRIC as referee in summer 2021. In fall 2020, I refereed Barrow Maze with Labyrinth Lord. It's really hard to assemble a group of compatible players in person for more than two meetings. Too bad since with all our life experience we can now make much better games as players and referees.
ReplyDeleteI feel this so much. For me it's how brutally life intrudes on gaming schedules. A vacation here, work trip there, mix in a mandatory school eventor two, and pretty soon that group you so lovingly assembled hasn't met in 6 months. If anyone figures this out, let me know.
DeleteThat was one reason I switched to weekday from weekend, originally playing every week also instead of every other week. I play on Tuesday or Wednesday to try and avoid collision with long weekends. These days my campaigns do run every other week, and so sometimes It's 4 weeks until the next session, and once or twice we've had two missed sessions in a row for an interminable 6 week gap between sessions. I think running online also helps a bit with avoiding issues that might prevent meeting such as traffic or weather. The bigger advantage though of online is drawing from a larger player base so when someone isn't going to make it for a while, we can easily add new players. Or if someone becomes too flaky, it's easier to replace them.
DeleteThank you, Frank. Maybe I need to give up (or at least re-think) my in-person gaming dreams. ;-)
DeleteMe too? No way, in-person or not at all. If anyone out there in Northern Virginia wants to rally for some old school D&D let me know.
Delete1) Refereeing a 1st Edition AD&D campaign.
ReplyDelete2) Since March 2019 (72 sessions so far)
3) Every other Sunday.
Not currently playing/refereeing - last ran a short West End Games Ghostbusters adventure (Ghost Toasties!) in 2021 and prior to that ran a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign that finished in Dec 2020. Currently thinking of running a campaign/adventure in/for the new Alien game.
ReplyDeleteI do not referee a regular game, but we did a funnel in DCC last night for a one off. it went all
ReplyDelete1. I'm playing in a 5e game
ReplyDelete2. A couple months.
3. We play continuously over a Slack-like platform
In the last few months I was a player in a Maze Rats one shot and GMd a Beyond the Wall one shot, both over zoom and lasting a few hours. Hoping to keep the Beyond the Wall game going.
1) Playing OSE; GMing Cthulhu game based on the Year Zero engine.
ReplyDelete2) About 6 months, about a year and a half, respectively.
3) Both are online PBP games. Not going to be meeting up for face to ace games till after covid has disappeared, which may be some time yet.
GMing Alien RPG in "cinematic mode", so they're one-offs (even if some of them can take a couple sessions or three). Before that, I was GMing an AGON campaign for a few months.
ReplyDeletePlaying mostly one-offs too (Mörk Borg, Mothership, etc), though just a few days ago we started what I expect to be a long Symbaroum campaign.
Were playing D&D weekly. Been doing that since forever. Current campaign is D&D 3.5 set near Saltmarsh in Keoland (Greyhawk). This has been going on since middle of 2020. We also run a one-shot once or twice a month also using d&D 3.5. Usually just a Dungeon Crawl. Been using Goodman Games modules.
ReplyDelete1. D&D 5E and WFRP 4E
ReplyDelete2. 4 months and 1 year respectively
3. Weekly
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteRefereeing LL, playing Vampire, AD&D1 and Mud, Blood and Beer (24XX ruleset)
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
My campaign started 2 months ago, The VtM game is exactly 2 years old, the others just started
How often do you meet to play?
These are all play-by-post on the Unseen Servant forum.
How long has it been since you last played/refereed?
In person? I can't remember anymore. At least a decade.
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteRefereeing the Fantasy Trip
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
about 9 months
How often do you meet to play?
Every two weeks...or so.
How long has it been since you last played/refereed?
three weeks
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteRefereeing : AD&D 2nd Edition DARK SUN (w/o Elves, Dwarves, Halflings) + my own Universe/System for playtests. Finished translating Petal Hack in French for in person refereeing scheduled May 2022 to honor my first DM who passed away in 2020.
Playing : Pavillon Noir 2nd ed. (French Pirate RPG with disarmingly simple rules) Torchbearer 1st ed.
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
AD&D starts next week, My Own Game/Universe started in 1989 stopped in 2002 and was revived in 2015. Pavillon Noir since 2021, Torchbearer since 2020.
How often do you meet to play?
Online mostly once a month (AD&D, MOC/U) to once a week (PN, TB)
How long has it been since you last played/refereed?
In person I last refereed in Finland in 2012 and last played in 2015 (5e DnD).
Me and some friends got back into RPGs with the release of 3E D&D, so around 2000 I guess. (We were always staunch 1E D&D gamers prior.) It started with three of us and over the years the gaming group grew to as many as twelve at times. My original campaign still exists but I have at least four or five other games I like to play as well. Add to that our group switches GMing chores every weekend or two, so everybody has a chance to run their own campaign. We get together pretty much every Saturday evening and play for 4 or 5 hours. This has been going on for almost 22 years I guess!
ReplyDeleteWhat RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteI'm playing 5e (Dragon of Icespire Peak) and refereeing Aventuras en la Marca del Este (so B/X but 1e clerics get a spell). Next week I'm running an ICONS (Supers) one-shot.
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
One months/ Two months
How often do you meet to play?
Weekly on both cases
Just wrapped up a two year OSE Advanced campaign last weekend. We had been alternating between that, Castles & Crusades, and Swords & Wizardry. The C&C PCs are around 7th level; the S&W ones are about 8th-9th level right now.
ReplyDeleteNow we're kicking around a few ideas for what to do next. We may wait for my hard copy of Necropolis to arrive and have the high level S&W party play that. Or we might just start over at level one and do the City of Brass campaign for Swords & Wizardry. There will likely be C&C games mixed in there too.
DCC is yet another option. We can't seem to decide at this point.
This is Dean, your classmate from Mediaeval Studies. We are currently playing Monster of the Week. I am Chester Wilbury the socially inept psychic recruited by Mr. Knox, a sort of Mulder CSIS agent. We have solved the mysteries of an Invisible Woman, an horrible cryptozoid monster and a trio of Unseelie who were trying to take a little girl.
ReplyDelete1. HYPERBOREA (Currently playing X2: Castle Amber)
ReplyDelete2. 2 years, since start of pandemic, although we periodically rotate GMs and game systems.
3. Weekly
1. Refereeing: Chivalry & Sorcery (5th edition), Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1st edition), Playing: Vampire The Masquerade (5th edition)
ReplyDelete2. C&S 2 years, WFRP 1.25 years, VTM: 5 months
3. Fortnightly for C&S and WFRP, weekly for VTM.
1. I DM in my own modified version of B/X D&D.
ReplyDelete2. Since march 2018.
3. We try to play once in a fortnight through Roll20 (on average 20 sessions/year)
What RPG(s) are playing/refereeing?
ReplyDeleteHero System (a Fantasy Hero game and a Pulp Hero game), Adventures in the Green (OD&D clone I'm writing), ACKS, Pathfinder 1.0 (currently on hiatus for the Fantasy Hero game)
How long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)?
Fantasy Hero - 5 years with a hiatus of 2 years
Pulp Hero - approximately 20 years
Adventures in the Green - 2.5 years
ACKS - 2 months
Pathfinder 1.0 - 2 years
How often do you meet to play?
Fantasy Hero - once a week
Pulp Hero - once a month
Adventures in the Green - once a month
ACKS - once a month
Pathfinder 1.0 - once a month
I'm late to the party!
ReplyDelete1. I'm running a mash-up, OSE D&D mixed with EPT mixed with weird sci-fi ideas cadged from childhood literature/video games, like there are Kzinti running around in a setting with buried X-Com type UFOs. The inspiration was having the disc-section of a Constitution class starship buried as the tentpole dungeon that my players have only just hit the edges of
2. Just over a year, from the initial "Naked Prey" scenario I ran in November 2020
3. We were playing at least a game a week, if not two, but the last few months have been spotty, mostly because of my personal life changing. Fortunately, others have had ideas about stuff to add to my campaign-world, as I'd set it up, and so they've been able to fill in a lot of games over the last many months. And I hope to be back in the referee's chair again soon, running weekly games!
How long has it been since you last played/refereed? Saturday, August 14th, 2021. I ran a couple of DCC zero level funnels for my old gaming group in Denver. We try to get together once per year.
ReplyDeleteThis fall, I'm looking to start a local group and try out OSE and CoC.
So, James, was the results of this poll what you were expecting or were you surprised? What were your thoughts going-in, and now, your thoughts having read the replies?
ReplyDeleteThat's an upcoming post, actually.
DeleteI'm running a small solo campaign with my own system these days. I've been at it for a few weeks, playing intermittently when I have free time.
ReplyDeleteLast time I played was a collaborative story game with my wife, back in... 2018,I think.
1) I am currently running a Traveller campaign using the Mongoose Traveller Second Edition rules. I'm not playing or running any other RPGs at this time.
ReplyDelete2) I have been running this current Traveller campaign since September 2019. Before that, I ran an AD&D 1(e) campaign for this same player group. That campaign lasted six years.
3) My group meets off and on. I estimate that we play, on average, about one Saturday every other month. In the past, we have sometimes managed to play as often as once a month for long stretches of time. On the other hand, at other times two or three months can pass without a gaming session. Generally speaking, I'd say we don't get together as often as we'd prefer because we are all middle-aged guys with families, jobs, and the usual time-consuming adult responsibilities.
1. Playing 5e online with coworkers, rotating multiple DMs, through Candlekeep Mysteries as loosely-connected episodes. Prepping to solo-run something more sandboxy whenever this falls apart.
ReplyDelete2. Have been playing this campaign since January. I ran Dwimmermount (using 5e) for an overlapping set of coworkers for about a year of the pandemic; I was ready for a change in December 2022 & and we needed more players.
3. We nominally nominally weekly, for 2.5 hours on Monday nights; weekly on Tuesday worked quite well last year, but this year seems to be a lot more difficult: lots of work and non-work travel as the plague eases, we tried shifting to Monday nights but that hits more holidays, players feel sufficiently endangered that they aren't willing to run with only 3 characters - in a megadungeon you can always try to fill in some skipped-over part of a previous floor, but it's a lot harder when you buy into the "this is the adventure episode for the next 2-3 weeks" model.
Ooh, things I missed in my first comment: currently a player in two play-by-post OSE campaigns, both started more than six months ago but are struggling to keep momentum.
ReplyDeleteLet's see: I run a 3.0 game weekly (Gygax/Necormancer Necropolis.) In addition every other week I run a homebrew using Chris Perkins ADND3 (not the one based on 5E however,) a 3.5 Star Wars game once a month, play in a Metamorphosis Alpha game every other week and a 3.5 Forgotten Realms game once a month. Sorry, not a fan of 5E though I do like the Goodman Games rewrites/adaptations of the old modules.
ReplyDeleteWhat RPG(s) are playing/refereeing? playing Monster of the Week
ReplyDeleteHow long have you been playing this/these particular campaign(s)? 5 sessions
How often do you meet to play? 1/week usually
1. Refereeing a post, post-apocalypse sci-fi game of Troika.
ReplyDelete2. Playing little over a year (February 2021).
3. Meet every week (with some missed games every once in a while).
I've been running a D&D 3.5 for 21 years - sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly.
ReplyDeleteThe game started as 3.0, and we switched to 3.5 when it came out. The game started in 2001 (it's how I met my wife, she responded to my ad looking for players, been together 21 years now). Been running fairly consistent for 21 years with many of the same players. Of course players come and go, and there are haitisus for babies and stuff, but the core 6 players has remained the same (1 player died 4 years in, and has existed as an NPC every since). We've played the same "campaign", in the same world, but with multiple characters (characters get retired at max level). We even managed to keep playing during pandemic. Hope to play this game until too many of the players die to continue, or I die myself.
I missed this one! Ah, well. Better late than never.
ReplyDelete1. Dungeons & Dragons (fifth edition), Unknown Armies (third edition), and Cyberpunk Red.
2. Technically, those are six campaigns, and I'm refereeing five of them. The longest D&D campaign has been going for 11 years, while the other two are almost four years and almost three. One Unknown Armies campaign has been going for six years, while the other has been happening for three. I'm not running Cyberpunk Red, but I would guess it's been ongoing for maybe two years?
3. Roughly every two-to-four weeks, depending on the game. That usually means I'm rolling dice once or twice a week depending on how the schedules fall.