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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gunton The Terrible" data-source="post: 1417971" data-attributes="member: 16995">Barsoomcore is right.Run good games and people will get interested.However, I had a random bad thought or maybe I am playing devil's advocate.  I am speaking from personal experience only here, but I as a DM, and those in my group that do DM, like to keep the number of players down.  Eight being the maximum.  It’s easier on us this way.  Now we do occasionally have new players and to keep the number down we often let the better players stay and the others we turn away.  Now if other groups are doing the same thing, keeping the cream of players for themselves that will leave the most socially inapt gamers constantly looking for a game.Now to appease their hunger for a RPG they will turn to recruit new players in to the hobby.So, what if the curious newcomers’ first contact with the RPG world is with this bottom rung, if you will, of our glorious hobby?Is this where the perception that only “geeks” play RPGs comes from?As a side note I do not mind the geek label.  Our gaming night has been affectionately labeled “geek night.”  A label given to us by the daughter of one gamer.  Who now games with us.</blockquote>