How did you find your gaming group?

[Crothian]

I'm in two groups. One with a friend who I've know and been gaming with for 10 years. The other group I met through en world. I posted I was looking for a group, one of the guys responded and just like that I was in another group. Living in a good sized city help finding groups, in 20+ years the only time I have been groupless was a few time when I took a few months off from the hobby.

 

[Rashak Mani]

AD&D championship... we later met with some of the players and ended joining their game.

 

[VorpalBunny]

I guess we're a weird quirk of fate... After graduating college in '92 and moving back home, I was looking to start a group. It turns out that the guy my parents rented their apartment to played, and he had a friend who also played - and was looking for a game. Add my brother and the husband of one of my wife's friends (another weird quirk of fate) into the mix and viola! Instant cup o' gamers. Good group.

 

[Golem Joe]

My story...

I posted a query on rgfm about looking for a Deadlands group to play with here in Dallas after I got here for grad school. The rest is history. Of course, no Deadlands now, but a damn good 3e game, my 7th Sea game, and an impending Fading Suns game. Those times I stop and think about it, I really have to count my blessings. I've played with other groups around here that make me want to put my head through a wall.

 

[Shallown]

Well my sunday group came together or evolved.

Started with one guy contacting me through a "looking" Board at a local game shop. Being only two of us we decided to "Raid" a D&D tournament coming up at the same store. We knew we didn't care for most of the players/regulars style of play but we made the leap in anyways. I was happy since I came out of it with second place best player and a new player, so new the tournament was his first D&D game and he still managed to impress us.

So now there were three. The new player had two friends who wanted to learn to play so we had a group. It continued, the original guy that started it with me drifted off then moved away entirely but I had met two other players through a different gaming store on my Thursday night game and through a Sat. Night BattleTech game.

The thursday night group started by some guy who wanted to play but not do any work was Posted at The second gaming store and after a year of hit and miss gaming a core group formed that expanded to about 10 players and now is shrunk to a stable 6. of course the Gm and two players are in my Sunday game but it all works out well.

The sunday group has been stable with a few players drifting in and out (mostly out due to uncontrolled circustances ie mostly military and transfered) for 3 years or so.

 

[Dagger75]

Player 1: met through the gaming club at USF

Player 2: Player 1 was in a game once with player, player 2 got a job at the same place I worked at, we became friends and he joined the group

Player 3: Nephew of Player 2

Player 4: Another friend from work who happened to walk by and see me and Player 2 making D&D characters while at work

Player 5: Met him at a Game Convention in Tampa

Player 6: Freind of Player 2

Not using my players name to protect the guilty

 

[roytheodd]

When I went hunting for a D&D group I had two aces in my hand. The first was that I worked in the game store where I had posted my advertisement. The second ace was that I'm a DM. I have found that by being a DM it's very easy to scrape up a group and in my neck of the woods there are gamers absolutely everywhere. One other thing that was cool was that having such a pool of players to work with I was able to pick and choose and fully customize my group so that they fit my style of gameplay.

 

[KnowTheToe]

Found them through the EN boards

 

[dpdx]

Very easily. A friend I had met in town was looking to start up a regular game of something when 3E came out.

We hooked up the rest of our friends (who all wanted to play), and the original guy's girlfriend made four.

We're now working on Heart of Nightfang Spire, having gone through Sunless Citadel through Speaker in Dreams, converted White Plume Mountain, and converted A1.

 

[uberkitty]

Three years ago, my boyfriend brought back all his old D&D stuff from a trip home, and I wanted to give it a try--I never played as a child/teenager. Three other friends, all of whom had played as kids, also wanted to play. These five have been the core of our group, but other friends who were curious about roleplaying have played with us off and on.