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| January 2013: New Beginnings |
Apart from a very short stint playing a couple of one shots in college, I've played pretty much exclusively with one group for the past twelve or so years. We all pretty much got into gaming at the same time from a mutual love of fantasy books and our explorations into tabletop gaming more or less happened simultaneously. There were occasional times when someone would bring a game over from another group, but I at least didn't really experience that. We played on and off through the years in a variety of systems and settings, but the core group of about five guys was pretty much unchanged.
I've now moved to a new city and although I absolutely intend to keep playing with the old group (Hi guys!) I'm also getting very involved with a new group of players (Hi guys!). This new group has only been playing for about a year and is HUGE (sixteen players mixed about evenly by gender). The first game I played with them was a 4e game with eight players not including the DM. I don't think I've ever played a game with so many people in it simultaneously and this is apparently the normal amount of people to show up at a game. The culture of the group is also very different as they accept that the players from one session to another could be pretty much entirely different. I've just started to try to get involved DMing with that and it leaves open one important question. How freaking cool is this?!
