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Posted by: Paul Oct 13 2009, 08:49 AM

I have found that many people I've talked to online do not play an actual tabletop game, instead many people seem to play a form of an online game-be IRC, PbP, or other methods. I am not passing judgment on which is better-obviously we get our game where we can right?

Posted by: Paul Oct 13 2009, 08:51 AM

I play a tabletop game, once a week for about 3 to 8 hours. (Depending of course on real world demands.) I have a stable of about 3 to 10 players who rotate in and out of campaigns. (People will play for a year or two, drop off for a few months, then pick back up.)

Posted by: Medicineman Oct 13 2009, 01:09 PM

Pen&Paper ,All kind of Genre
for 25 Years mostly at Weekends
from 1996 -2002 I was having lots of Fun with Fantasy Larp

HougH!
Medicineman

Posted by: Kagetenshi Oct 13 2009, 01:10 PM

Too spread out for tabletop. I've mostly used AIM, which although obnoxious in many ways (especially how poorly AIM clients tend to deal with unstable connections) has a built-in dieroller in chats and a server that none of us have to administer. Recently we've been adding Ventrilo to the mix, which loses our ability to maintain logs but fortunately we have a note-taker now.

(The basic flow being that dierolling occurs in the AIM chat, as well as some amount of kibitzing or non-primary action, while the real game occurs over Ventrilo.)

~J

Posted by: Lass Oct 20 2009, 05:28 PM

I play two table top games - Shadowrun once a month and Pathfinder once a week.

combined with two virtual games using Skype and maptools.

I much prefer tabletop as the interaction is so much more lively. That being said virtual can be fun too.

Ive been invited to LARP but am too scared. Figure a bunch of fatty guys use LARPing to trick girls into sleeping with them cuz its IC!

Posted by: DWC Oct 20 2009, 05:42 PM

I'm a casual play by poster, along with playing a mix of tabletop games. I did the PbeM and IRC things back in college, but fell off those two trains when I graduated and suddenly had a lot more free time.

Posted by: exSaint Oct 20 2009, 07:20 PM

I play both online (using Maptools and Skype) and in person.

Weekly online and what comes out to biweekly tabletop irl.


EDIT: as a side note, I think it'd be real interesting to see people LARP Shadowrun.

Posted by: Chrysalis Oct 20 2009, 10:59 PM

I play online.

Posted by: pbangarth Oct 20 2009, 11:04 PM

Tabletop, PbP, Virtual Tabletop (MapTools)... any way I can get it. The itch never goes away.

I think I have SRiasis.

Posted by: Thanee Oct 21 2009, 02:00 PM

Tabletop (no SR currently, though) and PbP.

Bye
Thanee

Posted by: pbangarth Oct 22 2009, 05:54 PM

At the risk of causing Paul's scorn to rain down on me, were I to have the opportunity to LARP, I would certainly try it.

Posted by: Platinum Oct 23 2009, 12:47 AM

No such thing as a girl on the internets anyhow... just 60 year old men in their underwear.

Posted by: Paul Oct 23 2009, 12:53 AM

[Insert Scorn Here!]

Shadowrun LARP isn't unheard of. I've even heard of pictures of it being online, but I refuse to acknowledge it's existence.

Posted by: Bull Oct 23 2009, 02:08 AM

Any excuse to cut my hair into a mohawk, wear plastic ork teeth and ears, and carry guns is a good thing

PLus, the only SR LARP I do also has a "tabletop" portion for stuff like a lot fo the combat and such.

Anyways, Tabletop. Though for several years, I wasn't gaming much at all, unless you count video games and MMOs (Which I do not), other than at cons. And even then, that was GMing and not playing.

Since I moved though, I have 2 SHadowrun groups and a D&D group. Games are spread out a little more than I like (The SR groups alternate weeks, and D&D is only once a month right now), but... Ahh well. I'm getting a bit old to handle gaming 3-4 times a week anymore anyways

Bull

Posted by: Paul Oct 23 2009, 11:35 PM

When someone says the LARP word, only http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAsQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D7521044027821122670&ei=Qz3iStSaCZSsNv-12L0B&usg=AFQjCNHvzDQLoQJBQOY4BNp3TUW_BvPZzA&sig2=wyBrjjvqhczAiX-BEq4G4Q comes to mind.