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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6503592" data-attributes="member: 4937">It's not easy.  Tongue in cheek I'd say, "IT departments."  Chances are at least someone in the IT department of any reasonably large company (200 or more employees) knows where a game is to be found.   Times are changing though.  It used to be pretty much all nerds were reliably PnP gamers.  Now, you can't really count on it.In general, it's my experience that there are far more people who want to be players than there are GMs to accommodate them all.   Assuming that you've managed to gracefully turn the topic of conversation to gaming among the IT nerds, if you don't get invited to a game that way, gracefully offering to run a game might find you players.  The only problem then, is you have to run a game.   I find that its often younger nerds that are interested, since they've heard about it but never had a chance to play due to the general lack of GMs out there.  It used to be if you were a young nerd wanting a game, you could just go ask your older nerd cousin if he'd run you and your friends through a session.  Everyone had one.  Now, you have to search harder.You may also run the same sort of scam by talking to the owner of the local gaming store and asking if you could host a table for open gaming every week for a few months.  However, in general, quality of player here will be decidedly lacking.   You'll get flashbacks to issues of 'Knights of the Dinner Table'.   Finding players you'll want in your group can be tough.  And if you are seriously feeling like you want to find out what it's like to be part of a group like 'The Black Hands Gaming Society', put an advertisement up in the gaming store with your phone number asking for players.   I don't recommend it.  I tried it once and ended up with a fairly large number of interested players - most of which had been kicked out of another group for some reason or another.  I admit - Nitro Ferguson is a better DM than I am.The most important thing about a group is whether you could reasonably be friends with them outside of gaming.  If you don't enjoy being with them, you aren't going to enjoy gaming with them either.  You don't have to be a perfect match - gaming bridges wide social gaps - but the hardest part for me has always been finding players that made me want to put in the work as a GM for them to have a good time.   If the players aren't fun, it's really hard to make it work.  So, to start with, make some friends and then figure out which ones you could possibly get to game with you.  There's really no more magic to it than that.   You might start with something lightweight like Settlers or Munchkin, before graduating up to a serious RPG.</blockquote>

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