Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 1576823" data-attributes="member: 1049">Lots of other people have given good info here, so I'll just repeat it while weeding out the bad stuff.First, if you have any friends who you think would get into D&D, go right up and ask.  There might be a few enclaves of 80's-esque paranoia still floating around, but I'd wager that most people see D&D as mostly benign.  And it's not like D&D couldn't stand to have more mature gamers recruited.Second, you might have to advertise, online and/or at your FLGS.  In this case, think long and hard about what you say...  and more to the point, what you don't.  "Mature" is an overused buzzword that tends to draw in sociopathic characters (what, you like mature issues, don't you?), and things like "non-powergamer" are par for the course.  A simple ad pointing out who you are and what you want...  30something with kids, looking for only occasional gaming due to limited free time, etc. should do the trick.  (Frankly, if a college kid is socially apt and fine with only occasional gaming sessons, I don't see that being a problem.)Now your biggest issue is what role you want to play in the game.  If you want to be a player, you have little control over who's going to be in the group, so you might have to let your standards slide a bit.  Doing otherwise is like writing up a personals ad asking for the sun, moon, and stars and seriously expecting such.  Still, joining up as a player allows you to go to someone else's house, and those first few games can be considered just a trial.If you want to DM, great.  Normal friends you invite over can have things explained over time, and as for people who reply to your ads, you can either have the whole potential group meet up at the FLGS or a nearby bar/resteraunt for a "test drive".  You should be the only one with everyone's phone number, and the people who are worth spending time with get callbacks while creeps get stuck out.  Don't focus too much on the interview - there are all sorts of "right answers" that creeps and munchkins can rattle off in their sleep by now - but just chat normally about games and gaming, and get a sense of people.  Call back those who come across well, and you should have a good core right there.</blockquote>

Verification