The first 10-12 years of my gaming "life" were always in a store and so it's still the "default" when I think about games.

That said I haven't played in a store since college.

ATM mostly at gaming clubs in libraries, running DnD 5e, although starting to feel a bit burned out with 5e.
So I might drop one of the clubs and focus on other RPGs either at home or at another club where they support RPGs other than DnD 5e.

I only play with my IRL friends back at my house.

I've always done friends and family gaming, however, yesterday I was approached to run an rpg in a bar that wants to get away from the sports bar thing and have "nerd night". So I'll see how this goes.

I mainly play at home. Lately, as the movement to gaming events and cons has grown here, I've often been invited to GM here.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1007150So, I was curious as to just what the ratio is here of people who do most of their gaming at cons or at regular play events at stores or clubs, versus people who do most of their gaming at home (theirs or someone else's)?

Half in store. Half in Google Hangouts. I don't do cons.

These days, I play exclusively online, play by post or Roll20/Hangouts.

1977-1979 was exclusively at home
1979-1981 was 95% at MIT SGS while in high school
1981-1989 was split in various ways between clubs (MIT while on break, RPI in college) and dorm room, with really much of the club time not during a club meeting (the RPI club operated more as a social circle, with folks hanging out between classes or over pizza, and then dispersing to meeting rooms, dorm room, apartments, or class rooms for actual play, and really most of the dispersed play sessions being coordinated outside the social time).
1990-1999 or so saw some club play at NCSU club eventually migrating to exclusively at home
2000-2001 didn't see much gaming at all
2002-2013 was almost exclusively at homes, with one session at a game store (about the only time I've ever played at a game store) and a few sessions at someone's office, with play by post gaming starting in 2008)
2013-2016 was exclusively play by post
2017 I added in Hangouts/Roll20 once a week

Along the way I have done some con gaming, most of it in the 1979-1981 time frame, split between Boskone and MIT SGS Summer Con and Winter Con. I've attended two Gencons and one Origins but didn't do too much traditional RPG there, I attended to run Evil Stevie's Pirate Game (LEGO pirate game written by the US Steve Jackson), which is almost a role playing game. I did make lots of RPG purchases... I also ran the pirate game at LEGO conventions from 2000-2005 or so.

Frank

Shouldn't this be a poll?

Quote from: RPGPundit;1007150So, I was curious as to just what the ratio is here of people who do most of their gaming at cons or at regular play events at stores or clubs, versus people who do most of their gaming at home (theirs or someone else's)?

At home, totally. I game to play with my friends, not for the sake of gaming. No need to go out for that.

Quote from: Bren;1007880Shouldn't this be a poll?

I vote Yes.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1007916I vote Yes.

That's one for you.

Yeah, I'm always lazy about making polls.

Q: How Many Of You Regularly and Mostly Play in Conventions/Stores/Clubs?

A: Every once in a blue moon we have played at a game store in the backroom. Usually it's at someone's home or, rarely, at a restaurant.

The main thing to remember about gaming at cons is that you have no control over who you will be gaming with.

It could be bad, could be great. Over the course of years and years of convention gaming I only ever had two notable issues. One involved some players fucking with a blind player. That about ended in someone being laid out flat. The other was being screwed over by the Stormriders Guild leader and his flunkies. Other than that it was minor stuff like the damn RPGA DMs being more concerned with their points and forms than running the session and the same with DP9s attempt at an equivalent. That only happened once each.

Quote from: Omega;1008688The main thing to remember about gaming at cons is that you have no control over who you will be gaming with.

It could be bad, could be great.

That and the noise are the main reasons I vastly prefer running games at home.