2011 A Year of (Gaming) Wonders

As one hasn't produced one of these for a good couple of years - 2008 was the last in fact - I thought it was about time I subjected you all to another run down of a year's gaming.

So here is the summary of my years gaming for 2011.

All up I had 111 gaming events for the year!

98 may be a more accurate number taking out the ones that were traditional cards played along with a dinner catch up.

That is down by 10 to 20 on 2008 but I have gladly traded some gaming time to spend more in the esteemed company of Salsa Girl.

The occasions break down like thus:

46 sessions with my Tuesday Knights group

• 2 playing Magic as the main event (there are usually some games each week)
• 31 playing or running roleplaying. 
• 22 running the Traveller Diplomatic Action game.
• 4 playing Fighting Fantasy Role-play under Legion2's control, 
• 5 playing ElfBoy's Terra Australis game.
• 13 playing board and card games

21 sessions with the Black Guild on Thursdays

• 7 running my Phudge fantasy game Mundus Scenecit
• 3 just chatting - as happens sometimes (as opposed to the 50% chatting that gaming usually is)
• 7 playing The Bastard's D&D 4th edition Dark Sun game.
• 4 playing the ever awesome Tribe8 under the guiding hands of Fantomas.

1 of The Viking Hat GM's old school AD&D days

3 afternoons playing The Bastard's bimonthly Pathfinder fantasy game.

10 Sundays gaming group days playing board, war and card games

6 Spontaneous boardgaming get togethers

3 Spontaneous Magic playing sessions

3 Magic Tournaments amongst our group of players - missing only one new set for the year

1 poker night

13 sessions of Rummy 500 with the Double Jays and Salsa Girl

1 visits to LURG my old uni games club - although no games were played!! (I'm looking at you Camo Spice)

2 evenings playing Werewolf with librarians - run by Gamer Phil while at conference

1 attendance at International Day of Gaming @ the Library - as organised by Gamer Phil at the State Library

All up I played with about 40 different gamers (and about 28 non-gamers).

• 8 players on Tuesdays
• 8 on Thursdays (4 shared with Tuesday)
• 10 at Sundays gaming, 5 from Tuesdays, 1 from Thursdays, 4 not. Multiple attendees: 5 from Tuesdays, 1 from Thursdays, 2 others.
• Spontaneous Magic was only with Tuesday night gamers.
• Poker was with 4 non-gamers.
• Rummy was with 4 non-gamers
• Magic tournaments brought 5 from the Tuesday group, 1 from Thursdays and 2 others
• The old school AD&D was with about 8 gamers and no crossover with other groups.
• The Pathfinder game was with 5 Tuesday/Thursday gamers and 1 other.
• The Werewolf with librarians was with about 20 non-gamers.
• Gaming in the library added another 13 gamers

One thinks that's a reasonable return for a hobby for which one has an obviously mild passion.

I expect to up the ante in the coming year and push on for the magic 150 and I'm sure nothing will hold me back from fulfilling such a humble ambition.

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