I was reading some old issues of Knights of the Dinner Table recently, and a question occurred to me. For those of you unfamiliar, the comic depicts a fictional Muncie, Indiana with lively gaming community. There are five or six weekly gaming groups that interact with each other often. I was wondering just how many gaming groups are currently active in the Boston area.
To answer this, I am throwing out the question to the general membership. If you are currently in a active group please share a few basic facts with us. How many players do you have? How long have you been meeting? How often do you meet? What are you playing currently? This isn't a recruitment effort, just an effort to get a handle on just how much role playing goes on during a given week in this town.
I'll start:
6-7 players
5 months
Twice a month
Savage Worlds - Sundered Skies.

I am in 3-4 groups that do not meet frequently, thus the more groups the more opportunity to game.
The reason we do not meet as regularly as we'd like, is that life, work and the fact that we are not all in the same local area makes scheduling a bit nebulous at the best of times.


Group #1
4 players
3 months
Once a month, but trying for 2x/month
Colonial Gothic

Group #2
4 players
2 Months
Weekly-ONLINE game - (This meets the most, and right now we are meeting 2-3x/month)
Savage Worlds - Cthulu home brew

Group #3
4-6 players
7 mos
1-2x/Month (We took a hiatus in Sept, and havent had time to get back due to holidays & other conflicts)
Savage Worlds (1960's spy-cross genre weirdness home brew)

Group #4, here i will list others that we play together, but havent gotten together more than 1x in the past 3 months. Well, maybe twice, but the frequency makes it very hard to know if we are still a group, despite our desire to play together.

* Eberron-4 players. (Previously we met 2 x month for 2-3 years)
* Traveler (GM moved and while we are in touch, group has not gotten together except for 1 shots)

So if you put it together, I do have some regular gaming, but not consistent gaming.

Good to hear. I have become a fan of Savage Worlds over the past months. Curious to know what you think of Colonial Gothic. I've been tempted to pick it up as I do like games with a strong historical tie in.

The world and richness of the book is amazing and I heartedly recommend it.
The rules however required a lot of rework, and since we have a great GM and good players, we are coping fine. It still is a step above D20 in my mind, but I would suggest converting the setting and world to Savage worlds, rather than to use their own rule set.

The PDF online I think is still $10.00, so it is a steal at that price...and the game itself that we are playing is getting better and better, so get it soon.

I was hoping to make it to your Sundered Skies game, however couldnt make it with my schedule at the time, and seems you have a full house.

To answer this, I am throwing out the question to the general membership. If you are currently in a active group please share a few basic facts with us. How many players do you have? How long have you been meeting? How often do you meet? What are you playing currently? This isn't a recruitment effort, just an effort to get a handle on just how much role playing goes on during a given week in this town.

I am in a Star Wars D20 game up in Danvers, which meets weekly at Toys N Things on Friday evenings. We have 6-7 players.

I am in Robert's Traveller group as well, and we haven't been actually meeting for a while. But if any of his other groups have an opening I'd be interested; he's said great things about Savage Worlds, and I'd like to try it.

Of course, I'd be quite interested in anything that has an open spot for a new gamer (but that's an aside; anyone who knows of such should contact me independently of this thread). I've been looking, but noone seems to be around here who's interested in the things I am.

The world and richness of the book is amazing and I heartedly recommend it.
The rules however required a lot of rework, and since we have a great GM and good players, we are coping fine. It still is a step above D20 in my mind, but I would suggest converting the setting and world to Savage worlds, rather than to use their own rule set.

The PDF online I think is still $10.00, so it is a steal at that price...and the game itself that we are playing is getting better and better, so get it soon.

I was hoping to make it to your Sundered Skies game, however couldnt make it with my schedule at the time, and seems you have a full house.

The Sundered Pies - the Slicing does indeed have a full house. We've 5 PC's to one GM which is, as I'm sure you know, the perfect RPG ratio as discovered by Aximander in the 4th century BC.

I meet / run 3 game groups. I run a weekly WOD in Fall River MA. I run a weekly board game night in Fall River MA and I run a once a month D20 3.5 game in Tuaton MA. All these gruops have been meeting for a long time and consistantly. I am lucky to have people in my groups who enjoy gaming, good compony and are mature players who just love gaming. I myself have been running events for years and have a lot of GM / Story Teller XP under my belt. I am lucky that my scedual is fairly flexable and I can run lots of games and am always up to run more :)

My troop is 5 deep we meet every Saturday in Leominster we play different games D&D, White Wolf, Rifts, D20, Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader

I currently am in 3 DnD groups up in lowell mass

Group 1
5 player +DM
12months
Every Sunday (somtimes with the holidays and what not we might skip a week)
Homebrew 3.5 low magic world

Group 2
4players+Dm
about 1 1/2 months (players from group 1 that wanted to play a different type of game)
Thursday Nights
Forgotten realms 3.5

Group 3
4 players+dm (Online)
about 3 months
Pathfinder
Sunday Nights

Thanks, fellas. Keep the info coming. I find it pretty interesting.