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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 1418920" data-attributes="member: 426">Hmm, I would have to get Monte's permission first.  Also, we could throw in some cookies, a few brownies, and maybe have Bagel Golem make a guest appearance. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Good to see you on the boards, and I hope your games are going well.My former group was fairly good at bringing new players in by having people in the group bring in their friends.  Or just running a game at a local gaming shop.  I think friends can help dispel some of the stereotypes about gaming as embodied in the Entertainment Weekly article.  (This stereotype, mind you, is a lot better than some of the stuff thrown at our hobby in the 1980s.)buzz, I think being active is a good idea to get people into any hobby.  I have meet some great people at EN World Gamedays and other events.  Also, I have seen a few people just walk in to a store, and later join a gaming group.  I think that publishers as well as individual gamers can have a role in promoting our hobby.  James, this reminds me of something from high school about 20 years ago.  A local branch of the Chicago Public Library let us run games, and we agreed to check out more books.  This meant higher circulation for the library, and it helped them out.  One day, my old friend Jim started a game that grew larger and larger as people from our high school showed up.  By the end of the game, we had Jim, another player, and myself serving as DM to about 40 people.  The program with the library eventually ended, in part to DM exhaustion, but I think we introduced a lot of people to gaming.  (It helps to have good DMs, and good stories.  A good first gaming experience can make people interested in coming back for a second helping ... of pie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   I mean gaming. )However, Gunton the Terrible does have a point in that it is sometimes wise to limit the number of players.  I think giving a new player a chance to role play as well as to fight a few battles is important.Firelance, it is good to have an economist commenting on this thread.  I think that more gamers will perhaps not only help in terms of product price, but might spur creativity among game publishers. (I see a lot of great ideas out in the market now.)  pogre, I think your use of gaming is interesting and also evocative of a few theories on education.  (I am going into teaching, and using Diplomacy to help teach history sounds like an idea that some educational psychologists would endorse.)  I know TSR put out some stuff back in the 1980s that a few people I know used to explain our hobby.  Maybe GAMA might be interested, or a few publishers might want to pick up the torch.Maybe a good idea for WotC or other companies that have their products being used for videogames is to have a brief commercial or tie in to their main gaming products.  Maybe some of the people who play Baldur's Gate as an electronic game might be interested to know about the game behind their videogame.</blockquote>

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