How Many are Non-Gamers?

S'mon · May 12, 2014, 02:52:38 AM

I game usually a couple times a week, typically one chatroom & one tabletop. I haven't had a break of more than a few weeks since 2010, I think. My last significant break was the year after my son was born, 2007-2008.

Lynn · May 12, 2014, 02:59:16 AM

I usually play in a game once a month, and run a session once a month.

BrandonKF · May 12, 2014, 03:00:12 AM

Quote from: Doughdee222;748692I haven't played an RPG in close to 10 years. Couple of weeks ago I joined the Amber PbP game that Renen advertised. Not sure if that counts.
Otherwise it's just been WoW and I quit that a couple years ago.

You're free of the addiction?

-Brandon F.

Spinachcat · May 12, 2014, 03:33:39 AM

I aim for two sessions / 8 hours at the LFGS game day each month, but work schedules have been too crazy so that's been erratic, convention attendance has been erratic and I can't commit to a weekly group unfortunately. I missed our May event because I was trashed from the Sabaton / Iced Earth concert the night before. Who the hell knew that Iced Earth would result in a mosh pit?

But that said, I have mostly been a "binge gamer" for the past decade where our crew will get together for marathon 3 day weekend sessions where we get in 30 hours of gaming and do a minicampaign. So I certainly average out 8 hours/month, just sometimes its a couple months of non-gaming.

Kiero · May 12, 2014, 04:02:28 AM

Once a week, 13th Age at the moment.

I don't play CCGs, LARP, MMORPGs (ever), and I'm not currently playing any CRPGs either and the only board games I've played recently are children's ones with my eldest.

Malfi · May 12, 2014, 05:01:02 AM

I think I haven't gamed close to exactly 1 month. I don't mind since for 6 months before that I was consistently gaming around 1,5 times a week between a Pathfinder and a 3.5 game.

Brander · May 12, 2014, 05:16:22 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;748668How many of you are actually NOT gaming at this time (with "not gaming" defined as having been at least one month without playing a game)? And if so, how long since you did?

I was playing in a weekly game for months (and was in two weekly games, running one, prior to that), but you picked the tail end of a two month gap to ask this (I'm supposed to start running a new game next week).

J.L. Duncan · May 12, 2014, 06:07:16 AM

I'm starting a game the 31st of this month-blind audition.

It's been just shy of two years since I gamed in the flesh; PbP or email doesn't count-neither of these proved to be worth the time.

Looking very forward to getting back in the saddle.

The Butcher · May 12, 2014, 06:07:19 AM

I game every two or three weeks. We alternate between my OD&D game using Benoist's Marmoreal Tomb of Garm Patu'ul, and my buddy Bland Joe Dwarf's Vampire: The Requiem game.

We also had a L5R d20 game that's been on hiatus for nearly three months now.

Quote from: BrandonKF;748704You're free of the addiction?

Very easy to shake. I cling to it currently because my wife loves it, but we play 3, rarely 4 hours a week. We don't regularly raid or do PvP, mostly we just quest and do the odd LFG dungeon. Once in a blue moon we get into a raid.

If it was up to me I'd just play Guild Wars 2 and maybe Diablo 3.

Imperator · May 12, 2014, 06:43:03 AM

I run a game on Tuesday evenings and a game every other weekend. On Tuesdays we've missed the last two session due to work related stuff, but we've been going strong for years. The weekends group is harder to schedule. We've been trying for 2 months,and now it seems that we're getting together again.

So, a regular weekly game and an irregular bi-weekly game.

shuddemell · May 12, 2014, 06:55:31 AM

Unfortunately, while school is in session, don't have time. So it has been about a nine months since I played anything. I will get about 3 months of play time, and then back on hiatus until my degree is finished.

mhensley · May 12, 2014, 07:14:17 AM

My group has been playing mostly (say 80% of the time) boardgames for at least the past year.

3rik · May 12, 2014, 07:28:17 AM

Another "non-gamer" here. I'm in two groups, one of which I'm almost always the GM for, both of which game very irregularly. I also tend to spend a lot of time in prep limbo...

Greentongue · May 12, 2014, 07:59:08 AM

Since it seems that the only game I can get people to play regularly doesn't count (Magic the Gathering EDH) and I'm letting the frustration of trying to run yet another PbP game fade a little, I'm in the "non-Gamer" camp too.
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RandallS · May 12, 2014, 08:21:37 AM

My gaming came to a sudden halt when my mother-in-law suddenly passed away. As her house needs to be remodeled before it can be sold, we are now at her house -- 2+ hours drive from the 9 players in my game. One of the players has taken it over as temporary GM, but it will be sometime in July before I am back there for more than a few hours at a time -- and that's if my wife doesn't decide to trade houses once the remodel is done. Either way, I doubt there will any type of actual gaming for me until August or September.