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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9295717" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Sometimes our NonAL game will slide off to a private setting, but just as often we keep it at the flgs because it's more central to those in the group. Al might be just as icky as you'd expect, but it makes for a pretty decent way to pull a group together and figure out who's going to show up on time learn rules etc for us.</p><p></p><p>Yea, south east Florida is a huge sprawl pretty much from Miami up to somewhere in Palm Beach county and pretty much all of it grew out since the 70s 80s or 90s , I'd be hard pressed to drive through wilderness for any length of time more significant than an empty field or something without seeking it out but used to do it all the time years ago <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Some of that is because of the age and some is because the government was still giving away land to people who farm it x years till the early 1900s iirc so it's easy to drive 5 miles and go through several cities.</p><p></p><p>Yea, a lot of tourists come here for some variation of beach (daytime) visiting relatives and just escaping the cold of places like upstate ny <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />. It makes for a vacation where finding something less expensive and alcoholic than dining out or clubbing at night and allows someone to get away from relatives for an evening a week or whatever <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Nearly all of my al &non al players live locally, but "locally" is often 30minutes or so of mostly high speed highway travel<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>The flgs does a lot of outreach between various bench ads and social media, brand new never even opened the box of dice they just purchased in the other room newbies are fairly common for us.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't call a month or two of weekly sessions with experienced players happy to help answer questions and such to still be a newbie, especially if they joined a game in progress instead of starting at L1. Lightly experienced perhaps, but newbie is a much lower bar. Usually within the first one to six months they buy the phb some other new book or enough ddb stuff to wing it but first session with the phb already purchased is definitely not the majority for the newbies I see.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My regular group who were friends first broke up many years ago (work life kidsetc). I think that you might have more strangers in that batch than I do people I knew first or didn't meet at some other d&d/pf/etc game <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Not at all. If your going to be at the table you might as well do it while playing.. especially when it's someone who drove to a shop and paid 2$ or bought something like a silly bag of Japanese candy. I've seen cases of a parent with kid where only one was technically playing but the other was pretty much just helping them. Showing up and just watching is super rare IME.</p><p></p><p>This might be even faster advancement than some (most) of my non al games, but when 5e is still targeting "never even seen polyhedral dice and learning to play session one with no experienced help" level newbies across all levels with 5e it's a problem</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9295717, member: 93670"] Sometimes our NonAL game will slide off to a private setting, but just as often we keep it at the flgs because it's more central to those in the group. Al might be just as icky as you'd expect, but it makes for a pretty decent way to pull a group together and figure out who's going to show up on time learn rules etc for us. Yea, south east Florida is a huge sprawl pretty much from Miami up to somewhere in Palm Beach county and pretty much all of it grew out since the 70s 80s or 90s , I'd be hard pressed to drive through wilderness for any length of time more significant than an empty field or something without seeking it out but used to do it all the time years ago :). Some of that is because of the age and some is because the government was still giving away land to people who farm it x years till the early 1900s iirc so it's easy to drive 5 miles and go through several cities. Yea, a lot of tourists come here for some variation of beach (daytime) visiting relatives and just escaping the cold of places like upstate ny ;). It makes for a vacation where finding something less expensive and alcoholic than dining out or clubbing at night and allows someone to get away from relatives for an evening a week or whatever :). Nearly all of my al &non al players live locally, but "locally" is often 30minutes or so of mostly high speed highway travel:). The flgs does a lot of outreach between various bench ads and social media, brand new never even opened the box of dice they just purchased in the other room newbies are fairly common for us. I wouldn't call a month or two of weekly sessions with experienced players happy to help answer questions and such to still be a newbie, especially if they joined a game in progress instead of starting at L1. Lightly experienced perhaps, but newbie is a much lower bar. Usually within the first one to six months they buy the phb some other new book or enough ddb stuff to wing it but first session with the phb already purchased is definitely not the majority for the newbies I see. My regular group who were friends first broke up many years ago (work life kidsetc). I think that you might have more strangers in that batch than I do people I knew first or didn't meet at some other d&d/pf/etc game :) Not at all. If your going to be at the table you might as well do it while playing.. especially when it's someone who drove to a shop and paid 2$ or bought something like a silly bag of Japanese candy. I've seen cases of a parent with kid where only one was technically playing but the other was pretty much just helping them. Showing up and just watching is super rare IME. This might be even faster advancement than some (most) of my non al games, but when 5e is still targeting "never even seen polyhedral dice and learning to play session one with no experienced help" level newbies across all levels with 5e it's a problem [/QUOTE]
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