have you made any gamers?
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Imhotepthewise
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My son is an excellent player and DM. My daughter is a MtG player. We play RISK, RISK 2210, and LotR RISK for blood.
The Kender
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I've made 6 gamers so far.
Do I win? ^_^
Do I win? ^_^
MeepoTheMighty
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I played with maybe a dozen different people in college, and half of them were newbies. It brought a tear to my eye when one guy ran out the day after first playing to buy his own PHB and dice. 
Piratecat said:Two years ago we started a "new player" game, filled with women who hadn't gamed before, and specifically designed to not be intimidating. Now four of those players are die-hard gamers.
Mr. Cat, what kind of game was it, more specifically? I'm sure something like this would be a huge aid to almost anyone trying to get new players into the hobby... even a brief synopsis and your basic "new-player-friendly" methods would be welcome.
Myself, I've introduced about... seven-ish, but unfortunately one didn't take to it. Not bad considering I've only been gaming a few years (with the advent of 3e).
SpiderMonkey
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I remember when I first bought Vampire:tM, i thought to myself, "my DnD players just won't get this." So 4 newbies later, we went on to enjoy a chronicle that lasted roughly a year and a half. I've brought roughly a dozen over to DnD, and of them maybe half have stuck with it. RPGs are almost unique in that they have a relatively large fan-base without a lot of hype; the participants sort of self-reproduce. 
BlackMoria
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I have around 37 to my credit. During my military service, I moved around alot. If there was no gamers, I started a group.
Not a hard as some might believe. Getting perfect strangers (players) to roleplay on the first outting and be comfortable with each other is a talent with me.
Don't know how many are still playing after all these long years, but I hope they are introducing new people to the game as well.
Not a hard as some might believe. Getting perfect strangers (players) to roleplay on the first outting and be comfortable with each other is a talent with me.
Don't know how many are still playing after all these long years, but I hope they are introducing new people to the game as well.
TalonComics
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I don't keep track but yes, I've introduced lots and lots of people into gaming. That's one of my favorite things about gaming is bringing new people into it. I'm very passionate about gaming as many of you know.
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The Sigil
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Ah, a fellow Ham Radio operator.KB9JMQ said:I have brought 10 people into the gaming community.
My gamer wife and I have 'MADE' two possible gamers
I have been responsible for bringing in lots and lots of folks... let's see...
The first gaming group I got together back in 3rd-grade... 10 members in all...
The two guys that joined us between 3rd and 6th grade... 12 total...
My entire scout troop when I was in Jr. High... let's see, that was another 8 at least... 20 total...
Three brothers... 23 total...
My latest 3e campaign... with two of my brothers and a bunch of new gamers... nine more... 32 total...
32 total. At least. (I've DM'd literally hundreds of players in my gaming lifetime, and nearly all of them were newbies when I started working with them - though I won't take credit for bringing them in unless it was ME, not one of my fellow gamers, who invited them - of those 100+ players, I can think of only a dozen or so that had played RPG games before I DM'd them).
My wife gamed with me a couple of times, decided it wasn't for her, but doesn't begrudge me doing it - she knows it's my "creative outlet" and that it's an integral part of my life. And my wife and I have "made" two potential gamers. However, at two years old (son) and four months old (daughter), it's a little early to tell yet... though my two-year old son loves to play with my polyhedral dice (he knows they're not candy now) and I have to drag him kicking and screaming out of my FLGS any time I take him in with me to visit...
Chip off the old block... maybe by the time he's four I'll have him totally converted and he'll be DMing his own games. --The Sigil
Back in 2000 when I first started working on WotC advertising, one of my co-workers mentioned wanting to learn how to play so that she could "know the product".
I dug out a campaign world that I'd been tinkering with for the past 15 years or so but never really used for gaming and grabbed my co-workers, her boyfriend (a veteran player), my girlfriend (now wife, a newbie who went kicking and screaming to the first session) and an old friend from high school who hadn't gamed in 12+ years.
We're all still playing twice a month like clockwork. I doubt that my wife and my co-worker would continue playing if I stopped DM'ing. But, both of them have been known to visit the local game-shop (my wife under the excuse of "I was looking for a present for you..."). They all have their own dice and everyone owns their own copy of the PH except for my wife who borrows mine but then denies having read it even when I find it on her nightstand.
I dug out a campaign world that I'd been tinkering with for the past 15 years or so but never really used for gaming and grabbed my co-workers, her boyfriend (a veteran player), my girlfriend (now wife, a newbie who went kicking and screaming to the first session) and an old friend from high school who hadn't gamed in 12+ years.
We're all still playing twice a month like clockwork. I doubt that my wife and my co-worker would continue playing if I stopped DM'ing. But, both of them have been known to visit the local game-shop (my wife under the excuse of "I was looking for a present for you..."). They all have their own dice and everyone owns their own copy of the PH except for my wife who borrows mine but then denies having read it even when I find it on her nightstand.
