European players/DM's are not always easy to find

[Thandren]

I've been rpg'ing over the net for bit now (using maptool and chat) and I live in the GMT (UTC) timezone.

I have found that games that are played at times suitable for GMT or GMT+1 (i.e. europe) are really quite hard to find.

There seems to be about 20 times more American online games going than European ones.

With this is mind I have set-up a website for people who want to play at times suitible to a European time zone.

It's called:- http://www.rpgeurope.net

The purpose of this is to get people who want to play at times suitible to a european time zone together. It's not limited to Europeans though, just people who want to play during times suitable to a European time zone.

Have other players/dm's also had troubles finding games that play during suitible hours?

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm lucky enough to live in London, and by using some old gamer friends and by posting around a bit, I'm now up to 8 players in my fortnightly game!

Whereabouts in the UK are you, exactly? And are you aware of ukroleplayers.com, too?

 

[S'mon]

Thandren's website is good - thanks to him I'm now running a weekly C&C 'Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh' online chat game in the Dragonsfoot chat forums.

I believe Thandren is in the Channel islands and does not have the opportunity for face to face gaming these days.

Edit: Oh BTW Matt/Tallarn, if you're ever at the London D&D Meetup you're welcome in my 3.5 D&D game (9 sessions - 8 dead PCs!).

 

[wedgeski]

I must admit that I managed to put together a weekly group more quickly than I expected. I expected it to take six months. It actually took slightly less than that. Still, we now have four players and me (DM), and everyone seems to get along and be enjoying themselves. I used a combination of word of mouth and posts on UKRoleplayers, and I live in the Midlands.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Edit: Oh BTW Matt/Tallarn, if you're ever at the London D&D Meetup you're welcome in my 3.5 D&D game (9 sessions - 8 dead PCs!).

Thanks for the offer. At the moment, though, I've got about as much gaming as I can handle!

Glad to hear you're in no danger of letting the PC's rest of their laurels.

 

[Thandren]

Hi Guys,

Yes i'm in Guernsey, channel islands, sort of part of the UK.

I wanted a site dedicated to online D&D and other and was for GMT or GMT + 1 (hence went for the idea of a European site for rpg over the net).

Luckily most european RPG players seem to have a very good grasp of english

It's only been going since the 1/1/2009 but in those couple of weeks i'm upto 23 members. I want lots more though, my next aim is for 100 members, then 1000....

Anyone out there, if you want a site where people can get together to play rpg's D&D or other over the net during hours suitable to a European time zone then please register with http://www.rpgeurope.net

 

[Betote]

I'm looking forward to the DDI virtual game table. If it works as it should, it'll be the ideal place for a quick pick-up game.

That said, it's difficult to find gamers because:
a) There are not so many of us. At least, not so many as there are willing to take part in other.. ahem... online group activities.
b) We tend to segregate. If, instead of "UKgames.com", "Juegosderolonline.es" or "Giochionline.it", we used a single place to meet, the possibilities of there being enough of us to play a game at any time would increase.
c) In Europe, we speak more than one language, so it's more difficult for two Europeans to game together than for two USAmericans. Heck, just in Spain, we have between 4 and 10 languages (depending on who you're listening to and what does that person understand as a "language" ).

 

[Thandren]

Yes European online RPG players are dispersed over lots of sites, I'm hoping one day http://www.rpgeurope.net will help bring them together a bit.


Yes, the language issue will always be some barrier. Obviously UK players speak English and from my experience it is very common for other European RPG players to speak English as a 2nd language really well, and very many are happy to take part in playing over the net in English.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Living in the, ahem, less civilized parts of Scotland, finding gamers sucks :/

 

[GQuail]

Living in the, ahem, less civilized parts of Scotland, finding gamers sucks :/

In Glasgow we don't have as much of a problem, but then, pasty nerds like us probably wouldn't survive long where you live.

Re: the OP - I haven't played any RPGs online for years (used to MUSH quite a bit, though) but I think this is a really cool idea. I appreciate why it's the case, but any chat-based games over the internet run at times to suit Yanks become basically impossible for us - either they play in the afternoon or you stay up till the wee hours. A website specifically for people who play to a GMT schedule would certainly be my first port of call if I ever go looking for such a game