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Message: <blockquote data-quote="morgul97" data-source="post: 4133416" data-attributes="member: 45450">I think this is part of the problem.  I know this has for sure been a barrier to me over the years being involved in RPGing to the level I would like.  When I was a kid, if I wanted to play basketball, I would just walk to the park and eventually someone would show up and we would play.  RPGs have never seemed to work this way.  Perhaps that is just a function of the way these games are structured and cannot be solve.  Perhaps what needs to happen is getting it out of the private space it is usually played (at one's home) and into a more public space.  I know when I go to my local game store (the Source in St. Paul, MN) and I see tons of people playing minis games and CCG's, but you almost never see RPGers.  Those other games are perhaps just, by their nature, more amenable to that sort of "pick up game" setting.  One way that I have met people with similar interests in other contexts (politics) is through Meetup.  There is an RPG Meetup group here in town, but it doesn't appear to have that many people regularly showing up.  Seems that there needs to be more interaction between potential players, other than just on message boards.  Perhaps DDI will allow for more interaction... perhaps it won't.</blockquote>