Hi,
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 :P). 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...?
For players:
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
And for GMs:
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
Thank you very much!
Play D&D and CoC.
3-4 times per month in person with two Skypers
As a GM Of 30+ years I can't tell you anything is tedious any more.
As a player I am annoyed if another player falls asleep. Although that is rare.
Good luck
Right now I'm only playing D&D 5e but I play and run a decent variety of games; namely, "old school" (TSR) D&D and derivatives, Wold of Darkness old and new, Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, Traveller, WFRP and Savage Worlds.
I play 1-2 times a month and post about RPGs here and (eventually) on Google+.
As a player, I'm miffed when the GM fudges the dice and/or negares player agency, but what really drives me mad are fellow players who cheat and/or want to hog the spotlight and/or never bring snacks.
As a GM, I love prep. I just wish I had more time for it. The one thing that irks me, again, are players who cheat and/or want to hog the spotlight and/or never bring snacks.
- What game (or games) do you usually play?
Since returning to the hobby after a long hiatus, I've been alternating Star Wars (EOTE) and Pathfinder. When GMing, I run a homebrewed system that superficially resembles nWod.
- How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?
I only play face-to-face, once a week (at best).
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
I'm pretty easy-going, but I dislike it when games are too slow (whether due to people being distracted, poor command of mechanics, GM not keeping the pace going, etc.)
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
I don't find much to be tedious (otherwise I wouldn't do it) or complicated (I run simple games). The only thing I'm generally unhappy about with GMing is that I don't do it well enough.
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 :P). If you won't mind much, I'd like to ask some questions.
OK, if you're a player, too, we should help each other...:)
But keep in mind that you should change this to "the habits of the subset of gamers active on roleplaying forums" if that's your only avenue of contact:D.
- What game (or games) do you usually play?
- How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?
1. That depends. I own, fully legally, literally hundreds of games. In the last years, the long campaigns I ran or played used RuneQuest6, Exalted3e, Fates Worse Than Death (twice), a heavily-houseruled Bethorm.
2. Man...I'm here on a gaming forum now, what do you want me to tell you? Daily:p? Yes, daily. My wife is a roleplayer, too, and another player lives in close proximity. I can go home and to a session in the same time.
Also, I play on forums, too. I've used Skype as well in the past, too, but less so now.
QuoteFor players:
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
More than what?
Personally, I'd go for "mindless plots" and "attempts at illusionism or railroading".
QuoteAnd for GMs:
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
Gathering the players that don't live in close proximity (no problems with those that do, I just call them).
Waiting for everyone that comes late.
Players that try to play the GM and not the game. It doesn't work, and they learn eventually, but it's tedious until that point;).
DnD the most.
Once or twice a month. Always in person, never online.
As a player, the most tiresome thing is a DM who coddles.
As a DM, the most tedious prep is reading pre-made adventures.
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 :P). 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...?
For players:
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
And for GMs:
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
Thank you very much!
The questions seem oddly weighted to the negative?
1: Currently 5e D&D, Spelljammer, Star Frontiers and Gamma World, followed by several others.
2a: Face-to-Face: once a week. 4-6 hour sessions depending on work schedules. Previously 6-12 hour sessions.
2b: Online: Chats: once a week, session averaging 6 hours. Sometimes much longer.
2c: Online: MUCKs and MUDs: once or twice a week for X hours.
3a: Bad DMs and players. Particularly those who try to bend the rules to thir advantage or are disruptive or even destructive of a session. Had very few of those.
3b: Because this was a negative weighted question here is the positive: DMs and players who can think outside the box without bending the rules for absurd advantages.
4a: Nothing. I can sit down with dice and books in hand and be off and running.
4b: Because this was a negative weighted question here is the positive: The moment when the players really invest not only in the session. But in eachother as adventuring companions as well.
I play RM 2nd ed twice month, and am rebooting my BFRPG game, which I will DM twice a month. So roughly weekly. All face to face, never online. But I usually check out some online forum at least daily. I was (am?) in several facebook groups, but found them somewhat spammy and less conducive to good conversations. It's a bad format,
As a player I really hate splitting the party if that means I have to leave the room for extended periods of time. Sure it's a fog of war type thing, I get that, but it means less game for everyone. It's excruciating being on the loading dock when gaming time is limited.
As a DM, the most tedious thing is simply flakey players. Show up or don't show up. Just let me know - you know, communicate - so life can go on.
What game (or games) do you usually play? RuneQuest
How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?
In person - Weekly
Forums - Daily
When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying? Doing the same things that I have been doing for 30 years (Starting in a tavern, knowing that this NPC will betray me)
What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it? Writing up NPC statistics
Games: I play GURPS. With the exception of a one-shot Savage Worlds adventure one of my players did a few years back, and a Fantasy Trip campaign that went for a few months around 1998, I haven't GMed anything else in over 30 years, and haven't played anything else in nearly 25.
Frequency: I run every 2nd and 4th Saturday.
Greatest hangup? I have an extremely, extremely dense game world. My players not only expect it, they revel in it. The sheer amount of prep work to keep at that level can be daunting.
Thanks for all the answers!
Although more would be useful, this will help me a lot ^^
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 :P). If you won't mind much, I'd like to ask some questions.
- What game (or games) do you usually play?
Currently D&D 5E and that's it--can't get players for anything else at the moment. Prior to that, oh, Microlite-20, Barbarians of the Void. I'm also running a superhero play-by-post using Triumphant. That is really where most of my RP'ing is currently.
Quote- How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?
RP group is monthly, at best. I post for the online group weekly. I check in on certain RP sites, like this one, near daily.
QuoteFor players:
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
Honestly? Players who are into the niggling details (spellcasters) and won't the let the game move along because they're trying to dig out the "perfect" action/spell/blahblablah. Slow play is irritating to me. Wishy-washy GM's fit the bill for that, as well.
QuoteAnd for GMs:
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
Getting people together is complicated--everyone has lives to tend with (old farts that we are). Tedious? Nothing is really tedious, but then, I don't prep to the -nth degree. I guess cobbling together a table of the monsters/threats I'm gonna use for something like D&D. But doing that helps me internalize the numbers, so, it's a necessary tedium, I guess, and not entirely unwelcome.
QuoteThank you very much!
No problem. Good luck with your project.
Quote from: Blue_Fishtail;876028Thanks for all the answers!
Although more would be useful, this will help me a lot ^^
For more data, you should post on other forums, if you haven't already.
Quote from: Blue_Fishtail;875844- What game (or games) do you usually play?
- How much frequently do you hang out? In person, Skype, Hangouts, forums...?
For players:
- When you play, what do you find more tiresome or annoying?
And for GMs:
- What do you find to be more complicated or tedious when organizing a game and playing it?
I usually run Savage Worlds (and Gurps before that) and I play just about anything the other GMs want to run.
I'm in my 40's now but I'm playing with some of the same people I gamed with in my teens (via Roll20 and Google hangouts). We play most Saturdays and who is running changes from week to week or month to month if we want more than a short adventure.
Due 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.
As a player I'm pretty easygoing and will play most anything. I have a general dislike for class/level, zero to hero, and alignment mechanics, but I don't let that stop me from having fun with my fellow gamers.
I'm an improv GM. I spend almost no time in prep, so getting a group together (organizing I guess) is the harder part if I have to pick.
Quote from: BranderDue 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.
Jeez, sorry to hear about that.
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 :P). 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.