My "The Group" is actually my current one, which is also the first one I've really had. There are currently five or six of us in a weekly game. The remarkable thing about this group is that we play in a local bar & grill, taking over a few of the tables in the back every Monday.

The Group first got together going on (geez...) two years ago, when a friend of mine mentioned that a D&D game was being organized at this one particular bar. Most of the people in the first game never really got into it, but a few core players have stuck around. The role of DM has shifted around, and no one player really runs the show. The game is invariably D&D, but we've switched back and forth between 2nd and 3.5th editions, and have twisted and changed the rules in occasionally drastic ways. (One of our DMs, for instance, has completely thrown out the arcane magic rules, and replaced them with something cribbed in equal parts from Warhammer and Magic the Gathering.)

My group was some of guys I know from the game industry. We meet up at GenCon every year for the D&D Open. Our note of game is rocking it two years ago and getting in Dragon Magazine. We are uber nerds.

Outside of that, I have stopped RPing just because it's so hard to find a good group of guys and to spend the time it takes to run the game. I'm like Rabbit, when we meet up outside of Gencon, we play board games. We love Titan, Catan (with expansions), and Cities and Knights.

And indie-rpgs.com, primarily for "social contract" advice for creating a new group. There's also a link to an RPG player finder, which was a broke-ass buggy thing when I tried it.

I've had several groups over the years.

My first group were a few friends I'd made on the swim team in high school. We played D&D and Shadowrun, both of which I have fond memories of. I took over running the Shadowrun campaign after we got tired of just shooting stuff and turned it into a much more epic and interesting campaign.

My second group was a handful of guys I worked at the grocery store with. We started off with Star Wars, then move into Marvel Superheroes, which was the best campaign I'd ever played in. We split up when the GM went off to college. I went on an RPG hiatus for about 2 years.

I spent the summer after my freshman year in college on campus working as a janitor. I hooked up with a few guys who were into Magic and Shadowrun. It was a great summer. The girlfriend I hated was still at home 2.5 hours away, I got drunk every weekend and played a ton of games. The group fell apart when classes started up again. I went on another hiatus for about 5 years.

I started getting the itch to play some sort of RPG about 3 years ago. Some of the guys I was working with at the time also expressed an interest. I ended up running a D&D campaign which met about 2-3 times a month for about 8-9 months. It was pretty fun, but in the end I was getting fed up with one of the guys' wife who was playing with us. She has no sense of humor and never put anything into the game other than saying she didn't know what she was doing. I couldn't stand being around her in general, so when I said I was done the group split up. Some of us continued to meet and play Magic once a week, which is still happening.

I don't have an RPG group right now, but I do have a Magic group. We've been meeting for about 3 years and we're still going strong. The skill level in the group has increased dramatically since we began which has alienated one of the members, but we have gained several new members to replace him. A small portion of this group is now going to start an RPG campaign in Ravenloft with the PDQ system. We may also give Shadowrun 4th edition a whirl.

At this point, I'm less about the RPGs and am finding boardgames to be much more engaging. They're quick and easy to play, and most people are willing to try out a boardgame than D&D.

In my Group, I put it down to everyone being intimately familiar with the game rules (without being rules lawyers), regular attendance of the group's members, and a strict philosophy of not taking ourselves or the game too seriously. That, and the game takes place in a bar.

Going back 16 years back to college days. A strange group. A DM who knew his stuff, me as the only other with any kind of pen and paper experience - the rest - well not a nerd amongst them. I would describe these guys as "jocks" and the concept of them playing anything resembling D&D was hilarious - but it worked and it's the only time I've ever had a regular weekly group. It was testament to the fact that you don't have to be part of a steriotyped demographic group to enjoy RPGs. Having said that I can't imagine them discussing it with their friends over beers. It was more their dirty little secret. Was the last time I played pen and paper

I only played a little in high school, mostly D&D, though I'm about to join up with a friend from work and his "the group" sometime in the next month, so that ought to be cool. They're playing Traveller (my friend has a long-standing love affair with that game).

I might be interested. If they get some more stuff up on the schedule then I could say for sure.