Do you live in a good gamer city?

[diaglo]

atlanta's got a good size gamer community. both on meetup and not on meetup. i'd say at least in my experience it is about right.

 

[mcrow]

I have never had a problem finding gamers in MN.

I can probly have gamed with of 150 different gamers here in the last 5 years, most of them I still see around.

Minneapolis/St. Paul has a large gaming community
Rochester has a gaming community larger than one would expect from a town its size
St Cloud,Cambridge, Anoka all have good sized gaming communities.

One thing that is common among them all is that they have a really good FLGS.

 

[krissbeth]

Someone may have pointed this out already, but the flaw in the ranking is that if a city really has a vibrant and robust role playing community, there's not really any reason to use D&D Meetup. Boston has thousands of gamers and hundreds of groups, but I think many of them are organized through other social channels (game stores, colleges.) If those channels didn't exist, like they don't in some cities, I suspect the ranking might be higher.

Cool work, though.

Agreed. Although, being #42 is cool for a whole other set of nerdy reasons.

Also, Rhode Island is a whole city now? Woohoo!

 

[kenobi65]

Chicago's low on the Meetup-based list, but I wouldn't characterize it as a poor area for gamers by any stretch.

For one thing, we've got Games Plus, where Buzz & co. put on a very well-attended EN World Game Day every few months. Games Plus is a real gathering place for RPGs, CCGs, wargames, and miniatures, and the place is almost always hopping. If you want to meet gamers in Chicago, there's one right there.

Me personally, I'm in two different D&D groups, as well as being involved in the area's active RPGA/Living Greyhawk community (and, Chicago's in LG's Verbobonc region, which many consider one of the better-run regions in the campaign). In the 18 years I've lived here, I've never lacked for gaming opportunities.

About the only negative I can point out is that we don't have a significant gaming convention here (probably due to the prohibitive cost of convention & hotel space here). OTOH, we do have a Wizard World con, several smaller conventions, and GenCon Indy's only 3 hours down the road.

 

[Glyfair]

Thinking about it, I think looking at locations of gaming stores (if possible including longevity and size) will probably tell you where there is a vibrant gaming community. If there are multiple stores in a given area (or 1-2 large or successful stores) then gaming is good. If not, gaming isn't probably that widespread.

The only exceptions are likely to be oddities (military bases come to mind).

 

[fineousdfd119]

HEY I LIVE JUST SOUTH OF YOU AND H AVE BEEN TRYING SINCE 1992 TO GET A GROUP GOING. both my wife and i play, we also have 1 other from the longest group to get together. are you looking to game??

 

[freebfrost]

Just had a chance to look at the Meetup data for Columbus - it shows a whopping 31 D&D players in the Columbus area. (Interestingly, 8 of those are considered inactive accounts and only about 10 are regulars to the site).

Considering my group includes about 10 players and I know about 20 others, I've skewed the data by 100% already.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

With in a 1 mile radius of my house there are 8 gamers (including myself) about half of which I reguarly game with. With in that 1 mile radius there proably live around 4,000 people. So that means about .2% are gamers. To my knowledge none of us are signed up for said website.

While thats pretty high I doubt its that high in the rest of the area, based on what I've seen (I and others have looked for other gamers nearby and from what I've seen our small borough is the exception not the rule).

On the site I see no groups in my area. So I guess my area is pretty good and gamers can meet other gamers through more typical channels.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Cincinnati's gaming community sucks; primarily because they're all of the closed clique gaming group variety. This saddens me, as I'm a new guy in the area and don't go to college; so I have no inroads into the gamer community.

-TRRW

 

[Crothian]

Just had a chance to look at the Meetup data for Columbus - it shows a whopping 31 D&D players in the Columbus area. (Interestingly, 8 of those are considered inactive accounts and only about 10 are regulars to the site).

Considering my group includes about 10 players and I know about 20 others, I've skewed the data by 100% already.

Ya, I know more then 31 local gamers by myself!! Because we all know each other we have no need for the meetup sites