Gaming and Life in Nebraska?

haiiro

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I've been offered a chance to move to Nebraska for a promotion, and I'd love to hear what it's like to live there -- and what kind of gaming opportunities I might find. I'd be moving to Lincoln, and would be able to travel a ways for good stores, clubs, etc.

Anything at all will help -- I've never been to Nebraska before, and I only know what I can find out online! Thank you in advance if you can help. :)
 

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haiiro said:
Anything at all will help -- I've never been to Nebraska before, and I only know what I can find out online! Thank you in advance if you can help. :)

Lincoln, Omaha, and Sioux Falls have plenty of gaming and frequent 'Living Greyhawk' conventions.

Nebraska also has lots of homey feel. If you're moving from a 'big city' you'll have to make sure you realize that being polite to your neighbors and other people in the town is important (even in Lincoln..maybe not so much in Omaha).

Enjoy!

jh

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Piratecat said:
Flat. Pretty, with very nice people, but flat.
It's absolutley not flat. At least in the Omaha area it's anything but flat. There are flat places in Nebraska where a whole town will get smeared by tornadoes, and we have storms that when you see them approaching it feels something equivalent to feeling like the end is coming.

....but the entire state being flat is not true.

Plus we have 3 (maybe 4) gaming shops that are worth a darn, two of which have 2 locations. We do not want for gaming material.
 
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Sioux Falls, mentioned above, is actually not in Nebraska. It's in South Dakota. Don't confuse it with Sioux City, as many people do--they are 60 miles apart.

Lincoln is a college town, and so there ought to be some gamers there--I'm not sure about gaming shops in Nebraska, but if you're willing to drive up I-29 for an hour and a half, the only shop worth a darn in Sioux Falls is the Dragon's Den, just off Louise Ave. Nonetheless, Omaha should have something, as it is the biggest city in the area.

As a native midwesterner (now living on the east coast), I can say definitively that compared to everywhere else, Nebraska is flat. There are some low, rolling hills in isolated parts of the state, but there are also huge tracts of land so flat that you can SEE THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH.

PC, should you visit, you'll not want for cornfields, but soybeans have been taking more and more acres, with corn moving north into the Dakotas and Canada, and South toward Kansas.

Sorry I couldn't help you more--I'm a South Dakota native, so I can only comment in general terms. It's a great place to live, with friendly, polite people and great food. The biggest difference is that things are rarely a big deal to people in the midwest--they don't freak out at anything. Blizzards, tornadoes, etc. are just everyday ocurrences, depending on the season, and so you never see people fighting over the last bag of flour in the grocery store, because they think that this is the END OF TIME.
 

The reason everyone thinks the state is flat is because they only part they usually see is along I-80, which follows the Platte River valley. Of course being a river valley makes it very flat. Outside the area around the Platte is mostly rolling hills (the Sandhills being the most well known).

As for gaming, I've lived in the Omaha area for a few years now and while I know a couple of people who game, I have yet to get involved with a gaming group. Lincoln being a university town (as mentioned above) probably has better prospects.

Oh, and you will learn to hate and loathe the Cornhuskers.
 

Piratecat said:
See? I'm suffering from East-Coast-centrism. The next thing you'll tell me is that you don't have any cornfields. :)
You can't swing a dead cat and not hit a cornfield.

You also won't find better beef anywhere in the world. I have yet to eat a steak not from Nebraska and be impressed.
We know our steak. :cool:
 

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