How to Gauge a Persons RPG Addiction

[onlyme]

I consider it a great thing for the site, though... lots of eager new blood over the past year.

Agreed. Just don't let anyone confuse quantity with quality.

Of course, that is why I do not compare my posts to Alethan...

[Alethan]

I consider it a great thing for the site, though... lots of eager new blood over the past year.

Agreed. Just don't let anyone confuse quantity with quality.

Of course, that is why I do not compare my posts to Alethan...

hehe...

It is a rare person indeed that can handle both quantity AND quality at the same time.

I think at my peak my posting rate was something around 18 posts/day. Honestly, it was too much. Too hard to keep things straight and too hard to try and really give the proper attention to the games that they required. I didn't think I was being fair to the other players, so I backed down and stopped joining new games, even when some of the games I was in played out.

At this point, I'm in just a few fairly consistent games and a few not-so-consistent games and that seems like a good mix, especially since I'm in several games on two other forums still. I just checked and one game has almost 650 posts logged for me, and that doesn't even include the two years where the game was on a different forum that didn't log post counts!

[Keehnelf]

I think I could probably up my average post rate a bit, but I don't think I could do so by adding more games--a strong posting rate for only a few games, where everything's distinct and I've got some ideas flowing, is my sweet spot.

[GreyWolfVT]

Well one must also consider Alethan is also the one making a large number of the administrative or moderator posts such as the meet your DM stuff. So one cannot completely compare a average or regular player posting in games versus one that makes a lot of helpful postings as well.

[Keehnelf]

What do you mean? All of my posts are helpful!

[Alethan]

Well one must also consider Alethan is also the one making a large number of the administrative or moderator posts such as the meet your DM stuff. So one cannot completely compare a average or regular player posting in games versus one that makes a lot of helpful postings as well.

Yes. Yes, this is accurate. I am VERY busy with mod stuff. That's why I'm on the forum all the time.

Do not question this statement. *waves hand in a small arc*

[OGRE MAGE]

To see who wins the post count, go to 'members' at the top right of any page.
Then, click on the column title 'posts'. It _should_ sort by posts (instead of join date). It will first sort with zeros at the top of the list. Click it again and it reverses the sort. GreyWolfVT is number 2, but he's got a ways to go before he eclipses Alethan.

I love these little tidbits you guys put on here.
As a complete moron on the computer, I don't like to go clicking around where I shouldn't be. But when you spell it out all nice and easy like that.......it ain't so scary.

It's also pretty funny reading about a bunch of geeks sitting around on their computers arguing about how many posts they make.

[dmw71]

It's also pretty funny reading about a bunch of geeks sitting around on their computers arguing about how many posts they make.

Agreed.

[Keehnelf]

we've got to artificially inflate our post counts somehow...

[GreyWolfVT]

or our egos

[Zhym]

Well, we could keep on posting in this thread...

(Zhym post count +1...)

[OGRE MAGE]

Well, we could keep on posting in this thread...

(Zhym post count +1...)

Haha!
That's the reason I replied!
(+2 now)

[GreyWolfVT]

I'm still making it less likely for you two to catch my post count

[Alethan]

Apologies for not posting this when I locked the thread.

Seemed like the thread was quickly going to turn into a post trolling thread. Obviously, the point of the forum is playing and running RPGs and having discussions that contribute to this.

More than happy to open the thread back up if you think having a higher post count improves your gaming.

Again, apologies for not stating a reason when I locked the thread.

Alethan

[GreyWolfVT]

Oh I by no means meant to turn this into a "spam" post boosting thread it was more or less as a "for laughs" intent. But I understand your concern Alethan.

[bloodymage]

I used to be a mod on these boards, specialized in banning spammers. Got old and confused, had to give it up. Gave up moderating on Dragonsfoot, my home. Was the only mod who could police Edition Wars effectively. Steve called me the "Rottweiler of Dragonsfoot." My glory days are past me now.

[Scott308]

Do those of you who are in lots of games here or in other forums play any games in different formats? I know Ogre Mage plays in a face-to-face game regularly, and I see him at the conventions that are local to us. As for me, I play in a weekly Tuesday night game at one of my FLGSs, with the occasional Saturday game with one of a couple different groups here in town. Plus, I have a weekly Saturday game on Roll20.net. I also play some other stuff on Roll20 with the same DM. Anybody else on here that claims that hat trick- Face-to-face, online and forum?

[Keehnelf]

I've done 2 of the 3 consistently for some time, but I vastly prefer pbp (to which I'm a total newcomer) to roll20 or g+, and sometimes prefer it to my face to face group which is a bunch of jokers

[bloodymage]

I used to go to cons in California regularly. At one ConQuest, I was the only GM to party in the staff lounge because I was so rabid about running games. I made a cross-country trip in 2006 that I dubbed Con Quest 2006. Hit Origins, Gencon, GaryCon and several others. I've attended Gencon Anaheim (I don't like Gencons, Origins was much better). I've made GaryCon several times and NTRPGCon several time as well. I had a sanctioned HackMaster group for 3 years, "Contents Under Pressure." Had a group in Arizona. Life now has become exhausting, confusing and expensive.

I'm new in my circumstances and haven't had time to find a group, just trying to get moved in and survive. I'm a member of too many forums (favorites are DF, Troll Lords and KenzerCo, with a nod to Yog Sothoth) tried Roll20, but they nickel and dime you. I have an extensive library and I was the member manager/lead author for Polyhedron Games LLC, but being old and infirm taxes my fixed income as well as the expense of trying to recover what I've lost in the move and furnishing stuff I've long needed and trying to downsize. I've turned from brilliant to a fool.

[MonkeyWrench]

I am in a ton of games here, I also play in two different campaigns face to face that switch off every Friday, we start at 7pm and usually go until 11:30pm. Antman9 actually the DM for one of them.

Aside from that I also run a campaign of Dragon Age face to face with two guys once a week, usually on Tuesday, though we do mix it up so that schedules match and all that jazz.

And then on top of that I have been kind of working on a Only War campaign, I may change it for a Dark Heresy campaign but I am still waiting for the core rules book to be special shipped to the fantasy shop near me.