Celebrim
Legend
Moved a little over a year ago to a new city. Before that, went through the whole pregnancy thing, raising infants, and so forth, so its really been about 4 years before I've done much gaming at all, and really more than 10 since I was in a sustained stable gaming group that had been together for years.
Really starting to miss it. At this point, I'd be happy with a few one shots.
Hoping to find some gamers. Found some board gamers for a while, and that was nice, but its not the same. I'm in an industry were literally everyone was a dungeonhead at one time, but everyone I've ran into so far whose breached the topic has been quick to do the whole, "But I was such a nerd back then and now I'm so much cooler (working in IT) and more mature (playing World of Warcraft) so I don't do that anymore." thing. I ran into an active DM, but he was younger and I could tell from his personality (snarky gothboi) that other than the game we didn't have alot in common, and perhaps if his game was casual beer and pretzels (which really depends on everyone having a common culture and compatible personalities) not even that.
I've tried before in new cities (several times actually) gaming with total strangers, but it rarely works out for long. (On the other hand, the best group I was ever in started with me just introducing myself and asking if they minded if I came to play next week.) I've even advertised before in local gaming stores (yes, I've been that guy), but what I discovered is that if you do that, you end up with the sort of players that inspire episodes in 'Knights of the Dinner Table' - gamers that have been rejected from every other table in town for one reason or the other (aggro power gamers, rules lawyers, people so shy they are barely able to communicate out of charater much less in character, punks on drugs, low function aspberger's, people who seem to believe they are their character, I've seen it all). By this time, I'd probably just give up and risk it, except now I've got kids now, and am not sure if I'm really willing to do the work of DM.
Really starting to miss it. At this point, I'd be happy with a few one shots.
Hoping to find some gamers. Found some board gamers for a while, and that was nice, but its not the same. I'm in an industry were literally everyone was a dungeonhead at one time, but everyone I've ran into so far whose breached the topic has been quick to do the whole, "But I was such a nerd back then and now I'm so much cooler (working in IT) and more mature (playing World of Warcraft) so I don't do that anymore." thing. I ran into an active DM, but he was younger and I could tell from his personality (snarky gothboi) that other than the game we didn't have alot in common, and perhaps if his game was casual beer and pretzels (which really depends on everyone having a common culture and compatible personalities) not even that.
I've tried before in new cities (several times actually) gaming with total strangers, but it rarely works out for long. (On the other hand, the best group I was ever in started with me just introducing myself and asking if they minded if I came to play next week.) I've even advertised before in local gaming stores (yes, I've been that guy), but what I discovered is that if you do that, you end up with the sort of players that inspire episodes in 'Knights of the Dinner Table' - gamers that have been rejected from every other table in town for one reason or the other (aggro power gamers, rules lawyers, people so shy they are barely able to communicate out of charater much less in character, punks on drugs, low function aspberger's, people who seem to believe they are their character, I've seen it all). By this time, I'd probably just give up and risk it, except now I've got kids now, and am not sure if I'm really willing to do the work of DM.
