Quote from: Brander;876074Due to a car wreck that messed me up a bit I had to bow out of another weekly game at my FLGS for the last half year, though I hope to get back to that now that I'm mostly healed up.

Sorry to hear that - I've been in a similar boat. My girlfriend and I got a surprise trip to the hospital courtesy of a hit and run crushed my Z3 this summer.

I hope your legal case is going smoother than mine!

Quote from: Blue_Fishtail;875844I'm a statistics student and I'm doing an assignment.

I would fail you because your questions are too vague, thus harming the viability of the final data.

• What game (or games) do you usually play?
• How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?

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Usually? Once a month? X times per year?

My go-to games are OD&D, Call of Cthulhu, Gamma World, Traveller, Mechanoids and stuff I am playtesting. If I had to pick one game I have played most in the past 5 years, it would be either D&D 4e or D&D 0e.


For players:

• When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?

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What are you referring to? What would I find more tiresome or annoying?

Playing vs. GMing?

And for GMs:

• What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?

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I love GMing. If there is a complicated and tedious bit, its chargen for pregen characters for convention.

Organizing gamers can be a bitch. Due to my insano-schedule, I've been mostly playing at FLGS game days, conventions and one-shot get togethers with friends who ask me to run something.

Quote from: Blue_Fishtail;875844Hi,

I'm a statistics student and I'm doing an assignment. Since I sincerely can't use a standard topic, i chose tabletop roleplaying gamers' habits (because I'm a player too ). If you won't mind much, I'd like to ask some questions.

• What game (or games) do you usually play?
• How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?

DCC, Dark Albion, and (as of this week) Aces & Eights.
In person, always, with each game happening once every two weeks; so two campaigns get played one weekend, and the third campaign the other week-end.

QuoteAnd for GMs:

• What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?

This question seems a bit too vague for me. I don't know what I would really define as a 'complication' or 'tedious', and different people will probably interpret those terms in different ways, so that what someone might consider 'complicated' someone else would consider the same amount of work/effort/frustration to not really be 'complicated'.

I think that, if you will accept a bit of criticism of your data-gathering, you need to define your terms a bit better and provide more structural context, if the data you acquire is to actually have any validity.