 The Demographics of Dumpshock/SR, Age/Gender/location of DS'er's |
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 Sep 29 2007, 04:13 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 458 Joined: 28-March 05 From: NA/UCAS/IN/ Member No.: 7,246  |
I think this is relevant to some of the forums we've seen in recent days, like the Curse of the Catwoman thread. What age are the players of Shadowrun and the Dumpshock community in specific?
Age: Gender: Location: Which edition of SR did you play first? Feel free to add other questions that I didn't think of. |
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Sep 29 2007, 04:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 458 Joined: 28-March 05 From: NA/UCAS/IN/ Member No.: 7,246 |
Since I started this, it's only fair I go first.
36 Male Indiana, home of Gen Con, some big race in May, and a football team that did pretty good last year Been an SR player and GM since 1st edition |
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Sep 29 2007, 04:22 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
22, IIRC
Male, so the sign on the bathroom says Boston, in exile to Terre Haute SR2 ~J |
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Sep 29 2007, 04:51 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,095 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Ontari-airee-o Member No.: 1,115 |
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Male Oshawa Second Edition - and adamantly still playing |
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Sep 29 2007, 05:42 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Age: 22
Gender: Male Location: Rochester, NY Which edition of SR did you play first? Fourth; introduced to it by my mentor, who's been playing since 1st ed. |
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Sep 29 2007, 05:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
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Male Braunschweig, Germany (alternate English name: Brunswick) SR2.01d (German second edition) |
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Sep 29 2007, 06:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
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male La Crosse WI 1st edition, fell in love with the setting been playing and GMing it ever since high school My group (the stable core members) consist of a 23 year old female (started SR4), a 25 year old female (my gf, also started SR4), and a 27 year old male (started SR3), all in the surrounding area. I introduced them all to the game. None are on DS, though my gf is thinking about it is she has the time. |
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Sep 29 2007, 06:48 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...shoot...guess y'all know who checked the last one... :grinbig:
Age: old enough to remember home fallout shelters, Watching Ernie Kovacs on the telly, where I was when President Kennedy was assassinated, seeing the Beatles live in Concert, comedy that was actually funny, and Space Food Sticks™ Location: Pre-TT Orygun - Portland First Version: Shadowrun - the Original (1st ed) What I like most about SR: The tech, the setting, the corporate "game" What I like least about SR: Magic (save for adepts), IEs, GDs Earthdawn tie-ins Preferred Cinema: 30's film noir, political intrigue, black comedy. Preferred reading: Political Intrigue, SF (not to be confused with "Skiffy" [sci-fi]). Preferred Music: "Classical" (really a misnomer), Jazz, "real" R&R, electronic. Preferred Telly: since my telly decided to have an electronic aneurysm a number of years ago, I really have been out of touch with the contemporary television scene. In the past it was British comedies (especially Red Dwarf and Black Adder), SF programmes like Babylon 5, Farscape, & The Prisoner, & the only reality show (besides sports) that ever mattered, Battlebots. Other than that I have to go back to what they now call the golden age of television. Favourite colour: Blue...no...Green WHAAAAAAaaaaaaaa!!!! [edit] Seeing that a few respondents have added First SR Character... my very first one (which surprisingly was male) was a Rigger named Capt. Canucklehead (sorry no points here). Lasted only two sessions before he ended up in a Lonestar Lockup. Of course paved the way for my longest running character: The Short One (OK I'll give you #10 on this) [note] …been having some real issues with connectivity today. We have this citywide WIFi network, which turns out to be very unreliable (the worst thing is I have a node not more than 10m away which according to the provider is supposed to have a 100m coverage footprint). I have been dealing with more timeouts than I can count. (one of the things this service does in insert what they call an “Interstitial Pageâ€? which crashes any upload and returns me to the main DS menu) Hope in 63 years they finally work the bugs out or we will all still be plugging our brains into cyberdecks for a solid connection. |
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Sep 29 2007, 07:29 AM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Age: 31
Gender: Male Location: Somewhere in Acworth, GA Been playing since First edition. |
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Sep 29 2007, 07:47 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Age: 45
Gender: Male Location: Presently Sydney, OZ Edition: 1st - I picked up the book the first day it hit the shelves of the gaming shop where I was helping out. |
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Sep 29 2007, 08:34 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 24-February 06 From: Kansas Member No.: 8,304 |
Age 27
Gender: Male ( are we seeing a trend yet?) Location: GA, ( sad I know) been playing...a year? maybe 2, Are you sure I can't trade in my PAC for a PPC? :grinbig: |
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Sep 29 2007, 09:03 AM
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Snakehandler Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,454 Joined: 28-April 06 From: London, England Member No.: 8,508 |
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Male Written on all my posts 2nd, but early enough most of the supplemental books were still 1st. |
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Sep 29 2007, 09:26 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,468 Joined: 5-December 06 From: Somewhere in the Flooding, CalFree Member No.: 10,215 |
Age: 21
Gender: Male Location: Greater Los Angeles, California Playing Since: 3rd Edition, 4 years ago |
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Sep 29 2007, 11:11 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 11-September 07 From: Saeder-Krupp Rhine-Ruhr Regional HQ Member No.: 13,215 |
26, male, currently living in the southern reaches of what will become the Rhine-Ruhr-Megasprawl. (My characters all seem to come from the Troll Kingdoms though. Somebody stop that 7ft combat mage! :grinbig: )
Started out playing SR3 several years ago, now running my own SR4 game. |
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Sep 29 2007, 11:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 2-September 07 From: In the AGS, underwater Member No.: 13,049 |
Age 24, male, currently living in what will become the bottom of the Neuwied lake, near the eastern border of future Westrhine-Luxembourg. Started with SR2 in '97 shortly before 3rd was published. It was my first RPG and the only system that was able to keep me playing it. Might add in the favorite sourcebook question: For me it's Cybertechnology. Nice crunch and some of the greatest fluff texts I've ever read in a sourcebook.
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Sep 29 2007, 12:09 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 13-July 03 From: Scotsprawl Member No.: 4,923 |
Age: 37
Gender: Male Location: Ayr, Scotland Which edition of SR did you play first?: Played some first edition, been reading ever since. |
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Sep 29 2007, 12:36 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Age: 22
Gender: Male Location: Pittsburgh, PA Which edition of SR did you play first?: Well, I got into SR when 3rd Ed was already out, but my group plays an amalgamation of 2nd and 3rd (mostly 2nd). |
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Sep 29 2007, 01:23 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Age: 27
Gender: Male Location: San Diego, CA Which edition of SR did you play first? SR2, with most of my exp. being SR3 and SR4. |
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Sep 29 2007, 02:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 13-August 07 Member No.: 12,615 |
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Male (wait, let me check...yup, male!) Virginia, USA Started in 2nd Edition Favorite movie quote: "I find your lack of faith disturbing." (Darth Vader, Star Wars, Episode 4) |
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Sep 29 2007, 03:20 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,650 Joined: 21-July 07 Member No.: 12,328 |
24/Male/Australia/4th
You would have been better served with an 12-18 / 18 - 24 / 25-30 / 30 - 40 or something I reckon, because that 21-30 bracket you've gone for is sweeping a bunch of info under the table :) |
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Sep 29 2007, 03:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 355 Joined: 24-August 02 From: Magna, Ute Nation Member No.: 3,166 |
Age: 26 Gender: Male Location: Utah, USA Which edition of SR did you play first? First My first character was a Troll mage. He was stupid and often didn't pay attention to details. He worked at Burger-World to make ends meet. He's still mentioned in my current 3rd ed game by my players. Which is ironic, because only one of my players ever played with that character, but he seems to be brought up by the players who never knew him. |
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Sep 29 2007, 04:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 289 Joined: 20-February 04 From: in the matrix Member No.: 6,091 |
mid 30s / male / atlanta / SR1
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Sep 29 2007, 05:02 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,070 Joined: 7-February 04 From: NYC Member No.: 6,058 |
Age: few days shy of 30
Gender: Male Location: NYC Started With: SR3 |
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Sep 29 2007, 05:02 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 25-November 03 From: Harrisburg, PA Member No.: 5,848 |
Age: 28
Gender: Male Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Sup, Tanka! My wife has a shirt with your sig on it.) Edition: 3rd, I think. |
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Sep 29 2007, 06:49 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,978 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New Jersey, USA Member No.: 500 |
Age: 23
Gender: Male Location: New Jersey Started with: 2nd |
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