In the spirit of this area of the forums not simply being entirely about AP threads dedicated to particular games, I thoughts I'd ask a fairly simple question:
Do you interact with your gaming group away from the gaming table?
By this I mean do you engage in social activities that are nothing to do with gaming, such as visiting the pub, going to the cinema and so forth?
And if it is the case that you interact with your gaming freinds away from the table, how often does gaming crop up in the conversation? Very little, often? This is an opporunity to talk about social relationships that affect what happens round the table, so please do feel free to cite examples of how play has affected life and life affected play.
Cheers
Malcolm
Well I have 3 groups, 2 in
Submitted by Andrew Kenrick on Mon, 11/12/2006 - 10:18.
Well I have 3 groups, 2 in real life and 1 online (who used to be my university group), so I'll mention each in turn.
My weekly group is a group I joined about a year through a friend at Black Industries. We occasionally meet up at the pub and chat by email, but invariably the discussion is about gaming. Not always our game, but almost always gaming.
My fortnightly group is my brother and his housemates, who are almost all non-gamers. Obviously I have quite a bit to do with my brother, but not necessarily the gaming group. We usually just meet up to play. Because they're non gamers we rarely discuss games - instead mainly movies and tv.
And my weekly online group is my ex-university group. Because we're scattered about the country now we rarely meet up in person, and when we do it's usually at a games con. Because we're all gamers the topic of convo is usually gaming related, but because we're also longtime friends it can be about anything!
Changing experiences
Submitted by Malcolm Craig on Fri, 22/12/2006 - 11:29.
Excellent, thanks Andrew.
I'm always interested to hear about the social dynamics of various gaming grousp, how the peoplem interact, what goes on outside of gaming.
Many years ago, most of the gaming groups I was in consisted of people who only met to game or take part in related activities. There was very little social interaction outwith the context of games. Nowadays, most of the people I game with I actually spend more time socialising outwith a gaming environemnt than actually gaming with them. Even within gaming time, I now find there is a much stronger and more enjoyable 'social' element, with discussion and chat about a wide range of topics that are nothing to do with games and gaming.
Cheers
Malcolm
Contested Ground Studios
I'm not sure if you got the
Submitted by Andrew Kenrick on Mon, 12/02/2007 - 16:02.
I'm not sure if you got the answers you were looking for Malc, but Mo is doing a similar sort of census over here and here.