Best Way to Find New Players

[Fauchard1520]

How do the kids manage it these days? Am I supposed to make friends first and then convert them to gaming, or should I find gamers and make friends with them? Is nearbygamers.com still a thing? What about meetup? Am I better off poking my nose into a friendly local game store and sitting down for some organized play, or is it a smarter move to wallflower it up like an awkward freshman in the corner of my new school’s game club? Maybe my best bet is just to spin the wheel and check out the Looking For Group subreddit....?

Comic related.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"How do the kids manage it these days?"

Same way they always did; ask their friends to play.

 

[innerdude]

Best way to find new players?

Kidnapping, obviously. Tie them to a chair and make them roll d20s at your whim and pleasure.

I mean, I'm not saying that I've done it, or anything....

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Best way to find new players?

Kidnapping, obviously. Tie them to a chair and make them roll d20s at your whim and pleasure.

I mean, I'm not saying that I've done it, or anything....

That really puts the emphasis on Dungeons & Dragons.

 

[Darth Solo]

How do the kids manage it these days? Am I supposed to make friends first and then convert them to gaming, or should I find gamers and make friends with them? Is nearbygamers.com still a thing? What about meetup? Am I better off poking my nose into a friendly local game store and sitting down for some organized play, or is it a smarter move to wallflower it up like an awkward freshman in the corner of my new school’s game club? Maybe my best bet is just to spin the wheel and check out the Looking For Group subreddit....?

Comic related.

All of the above. Meetup, Reddit and Facebook helped the most.

 

[Richards]

I created mine the old-fashioned way. You see, when a Mommy and a Daddy love each other very much....

Okay, that's not the reason we had kids, but I did play D&D with my two sons for years and one of them is still a player in my current campaign and has started DMing his own campaign (in which I'm a player). And I do have other players that are not my own spawn.

Johnathan

 

[jasper]

The same way we did back then. Classmates, friends of friends, signs at the FLGS. Playing at FLGS. And we didn't even need a comic to direct traffic our way.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

I found my current group through a meet up, that was before the Covid crisis though.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Right now, with meeting people in-person off the table, for me so far it seems to be working via friends of a friend. A group of friends that wants to game find themselves short a person, then one of them says "I know someone that might be interested."

 

[jcjsolo@gmail.com]

I think the upside is that it’s more socially acceptable so it is easier in some ways than it once was. The downside is that yes, there’s no real “go to” app or mechanism for this yet. I think that means there’s an opportunity here, to be honest, to be first to market.