Have you ever lucked out before?

[Olaf the Stout]

I think that I did for the first time. A few weeks ago I was surfing the internet and somehow ended up at a D&D Meetup site. I checked out players for my area and happened to notice that the most recent one was from someone looking for a game north of the city (I live north of the city). Given how small the roleplaying community seems to be in my city, that was an event in itself. It got better though.

He said he was currently playing in a group in the city on weekends but preferred a weeknight game closer to home and gave the suburb where he lived. It turned out to be my exact suburb! Add in the fact that I am also running a weeknight game and I felt like there was some sort of conspiracy going on here.

I had a full table at the time so I just took his e-mail address for future reference. Then last Wednesday, one of my players said that he had to drop out of the game due to work. I went to work on Thursday and was going to send the person an e-mail. However when I checked my Hotmail In-box I saw that there was a message there from him already. He had seen a notice that I had put up in my FLGS about 6 months ago!

I haven't met him yet to check that he's not insane or psychotic but the way things are going it looking like the group and him should be a good match. It would definitely be the easiest time I've had replacing a player.

So what about you? Ever lucked out, D&D related or otherwise?

Olaf the Stout

 

[DonTadow]

I think that I did for the first time. A few weeks ago I was surfing the internet and somehow ended up at a D&D Meetup site. I checked out players for my area and happened to notice that the most recent one was from someone looking for a game north of the city (I live north of the city). Given how small the roleplaying community seems to be in my city, that was an event in itself. It got better though.

He said he was currently playing in a group in the city on weekends but preferred a weeknight game closer to home and gave the suburb where he lived. It turned out to be my exact suburb! Add in the fact that I am also running a weeknight game and I felt like there was some sort of conspiracy going on here.

I had a full table at the time so I just took his e-mail address for future reference. Then last Wednesday, one of my players said that he had to drop out of the game due to work. I went to work on Thursday and was going to send the person an e-mail. However when I checked my Hotmail In-box I saw that there was a message there from him already. He had seen a notice that I had put up in my FLGS about 6 months ago!

I haven't met him yet to check that he's not insane or psychotic but the way things are going it looking like the group and him should be a good match. It would definitely be the easiest time I've had replacing a player.

So what about you? Ever lucked out, D&D related or otherwise?

Olaf the Stout

Congrats, I thought I got lucky a couple months ago. Found a good player, really into the campaign world, showed up early for game every week. All of a sudden as of Thursday last week I havn't heard from him. he hasn't been on the website, didnt show up for game, i dont have his number on file so i have no idea how to get ahold of him... sigh. IN any case my so called good luck turned on me.

 

[Crothian]

in 2001 I moved away from my gaming group. I went on EN World and found a group that is now full of friends.

I am still friends with that group, but it broke apart from gaming and someone here saw a post from me about that. That was two years ago and I'm still friends and gaming with them.

2 months ago I wanted to start a second game but for Changeling; a game that is much harder to find players for. I posted about it on EN World and found a great player.

So far I have found three great groups on line for gaming. And a marriage has resulted directly from it.

 

[el-remmen]

I was sitting in the cafeteria of my community college reading the 2E player's handbook, and this (rather attractive) woman comes over to me and asks, "Wow! Is that the player's handbook? I've been looking for a game of D&D!"

I formed a group around her, two newbies I had recruited and two people she brought along that lasted for years and became known as The Sign of Four.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I was sitting in the cafeteria of my community college reading the 2E player's handbook, and this (rather attractive) woman comes over to me and asks, "Wow! Is that the player's handbook? I've been looking for a game of D&D!"

I formed a group around her, two newbies I had recruited and two people she brought along that lasted for years and became known as The Sign of Four.

Did you then start dating her as well? That would have really been lucking out. (IMO of course).

Olaf the Stout

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've been pretty lucky as a gamer overall. Most of my groups have been pretty stable for years- one for nearly 20 years.

The luckiest I ever got on the gaming front, however, was a large-ish group I joined down in Austin back in 1991. The first (and ultimately, only) group I contacted was hosted in the converted garage of a cool dude named Alan Hench. While the group played some games I didn't like, we played a little of everything, and ultimately, the experience of 3 years of gaming with them revolutionized the way I play today, and my RPG collection exploded from D&D and Champions/HERO only to encompass nearly 100 different systems & variants.

I may not have cared for each player in the group as a true friend, but I definitely respected ALL of them as gamers.

 

[el-remmen]

Did you then start dating her as well? That would have really been lucking out. (IMO of course).

Olaf the Stout

No, but one of the newbies who was my bandmate at the time did. Actually, the group did not last very much longer after they broke up - but that also had to do with changing work and school schedules and people moving away.

 

[Maester Luwin]

Hey everyone! I have two great groups that I game with. Both are playing my AGoT campaign though one is a table top group & the other is playing it online. I feel I have made great friendships in both games. I truely feel lucky & blessed to have met them all. It is also fun to see how two different groups play the same campaign. Thanks Maester Luwin

 

[Treebore]

The biggest luck out I had gaming is when I rejoined my group after returning from a sub patrol of 119 days. I met my wife. Our 16th anniversary is in a couple of weeks. Not to mention our first borns 15th B-day.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The biggest luck out I had gaming is when I rejoined my group after returning from a sub patrol of 119 days. I met my wife. Our 16th anniversary is in a couple of weeks. Not to mention our first borns 15th B-day.

For me that's a pretty good example of lucking out. You meet your wife at a D&D game. I take it that she's a gamer?

Olaf the Stout