"What is your role in the local gaming group?" Topic

This is probably been asked before, but what do you view your role in you local gaming group.

A)Are you a mover and shaker. Do you talk your friends into new periods, then run off to build most of the armies and terrain. Design the rules or scenarios and run a majority of the games.
B)Go with the flow, paint armies and join in whatever period everyone else likes. Occasionally run a game.
C)The player! Shows up for every game and plays his heart out. Though not much for painting or running the games.
D)The period player. Has figs and rules for his favorite period but rarely participates in other games.

Of course feel free to add a new 'role'

F) Mug who does everything for everyone else, putting in all the effort to keep things going whilst others ride on their coat tails

G) The one they all laugh about because of my rotten, toxic, disastrous luck.

F.

H) The one who HAS most periods, assembled, painted, and ready to play, who suggests new games, scenarios, and fun, only to be beaten about the head and shoulders that Games Workshop is the only REAL hobby, whence I meekly get out my Space Marines and trounce them for their lack of vision.

Mostly A) though occasionally D)

Hmm. I think I can honestly claim to have built up a ground swell for Napoleonics at my FLGS, but I have been supported by a couple of fellow hard core Napoleonistas in this. (I certainly can't claim to have built any terrain…)

But I'll gladly join in any historical game going.

Definitely a follower rather than a leader when it comes to FOW, happy to be swayed by the enthusiasm of the young 'uns…

I hope I have been polite, interested yet non committal with the non historical stuff..

I'm the short bald gobby one. Stands out from the more…. generously proportioned…. lads.

I) Non-attender

A mixture of A and B.

mix of A and B as well. We have a lot of A types at my group though – so hard to stand out…

The quiet one in the corner on by himself mumbling strange incantations over rule books and odd shaped dice.

Oh sorry – that's not me at all, honestly, just someone I once knew…

Well OK – I did get thrown out of the club for wanting to play D&D many years ago!

mix of A & B. I have the money, but not the time to do new periods and rules, so I am usually an early adopter. Then a late painter and getting troops on the table, as I have enough money to buy everything, but not enough time to get it all painted.

A – pushing historical Lardy and Warlordy type stuff in the face of club leagues and earnest tournament preparation. Also a bit of D.

J) Bad example

I would be Les

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Nicely painted minis, complete armies, shows up every now and again

D

I paint all the figs, design all the scenarios, make all the terrain, set up all the times to play and make all the calls. I also usually provide food and drink. Other than that everyone else does all the work.

> I did get thrown out of the club for wanting to play D&D many years ago!

Good for them! Play GURPS you fool!

Right now I am the coordinator. I arrange for someone to run a game on a given game night and then make sure that the players know about it and that the guy running the game has players.

We game in my basement, and I provide the figures for about a quarter of the games.

We have lots of As in the club (including me) so I tend to get involved in things the other guys do that I was going to do anyways. I am happy to make someone elses project happen as I don't want to collect everything generally.

For instance the club Dark Ages collection has Normans, Anglo Danes , Vikings, Scots and Welsh in the club and I am currently only doing Scots and will likely do Vikings at some point.

I drive the Napoleonics in the club and follow along for the Ancients, Dark Ages and WWII generally.

Which selection is "does everything but roll the dice for the players"?

Mostly A, some F.

In the past an "F" but now I'm easing off a bit to an "A" with occasional "B" tendencies.

Easy mark :(

Mostly D, if you make it periods, sometimes a little A. I likes what I likes!

Occasionally A, mostly B. Our group of 13 has a few A's, a lot of B's and a few C's.

I feel like a combination of A and F.

I am the guy who really want to show up, but for some reason it never quite works out.

All of the above..guilty as charged!

A and D

K) Lender of books to ingrates who later deny that they have them or worse, claim that they own them.

L) The organiser.

Spends the prior week sending round emails to ensure something is atleast organised so that 1)we all have a game and 2)don't have to lug too much stuff around on the off chance.

M) Don't forget the guy that comes and plays and then bitches about every single rules set not being quite right.

M) Don't forget the guy that comes and plays and then bitches about every single rules set not being quite right.

Or worse, stands around looking at the game, putting everyone off, then goes away and posts on a forum about what a crap set of rules you used because they allowed x to happen – when x was a standard battlefield drill of the period…

It is interesting that nobody has volunteered that they are the whiner, the guy who complains constantly and could care less about whether anyone else has fun.

I guess no group has anyone like that . . .

I'm the writer of the newsletter, scheduler, usually the GM, and player of almost any historical period (even the ones where my butt always gets kicked).

I've also been known to develop many house rules.