How does everyone find games?
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AlphaOmega
First Post
Well I just found my last two groups by posting here actually. Each time I had moved to a new city where I didn't know many people and received some solid leads; rather quickly in my last search about a year ago after moving cross-country. My experience is the speed on finding a group depends on where you live and how big the "gaming pool" is to draw upon.
Good luck with your search.
Good luck with your search.
Shemeska
Adventurer
Usually through friends I meet, apparently I just gravitate naturally towards gamers. Or just start a game myself and wait for people to ask to play, somehow word of mouth spreads, it kinda boggles me, and I've got a waiting list at the moment. *confused shrug*
Of course the entering games because of a friend already in with that group has its drawbacks. I call it the group from Hell, and not hell in the good vacation spot Gehenna with lava flows and acidic snow and all (Being one of the resident Arcanoloths here, it's home, what can I say). The group was disfunctional with a capital D. Before I dropped them (or they kicked me out, one of the two) they went through 3 TPK's and about 4 different campaigns. From what I hear they switched DM's, he burnt out, then they went back to the old DM and he proceeds to have yet another TPK. They have yet, in 3 years, to have a game last more than 2 months. *boggle!*
Meanwhile I've been in one game for two years, and been running one with the aformentioned friend (and she is a cutie) for over a year, and now running a Planescape game of my own thats going on 6 months with at least a year of plot left to run.
And on top of it all, the group from hell had the TPK DM as I'll call him, with an elf fixation. Specifically Forgotten Realms elves. You know, the elves are kewl type. He was a good DM in a perverse way, but inevitably there would be a super powerful elven nation of NPC in the game, regardless of setting, and the party would run afoul of them. Nature loving not in the peaceful warders of the woods type elves, but psycho E.L.F. elves with direct connections to all the powers of magic and EGO's the size of texas. *shiver*
So back on topic here, finding games through friends can be good, but I've gotten burned once, so I'm a tad jaded on it all, from now on if I ever move I'll be finding folks on my own, or just starting my own game, advertising it, then getting to know some folks in the area who game from there.
Of course the entering games because of a friend already in with that group has its drawbacks. I call it the group from Hell, and not hell in the good vacation spot Gehenna with lava flows and acidic snow and all (Being one of the resident Arcanoloths here, it's home, what can I say). The group was disfunctional with a capital D. Before I dropped them (or they kicked me out, one of the two) they went through 3 TPK's and about 4 different campaigns. From what I hear they switched DM's, he burnt out, then they went back to the old DM and he proceeds to have yet another TPK. They have yet, in 3 years, to have a game last more than 2 months. *boggle!*
Meanwhile I've been in one game for two years, and been running one with the aformentioned friend (and she is a cutie) for over a year, and now running a Planescape game of my own thats going on 6 months with at least a year of plot left to run.
And on top of it all, the group from hell had the TPK DM as I'll call him, with an elf fixation. Specifically Forgotten Realms elves. You know, the elves are kewl type. He was a good DM in a perverse way, but inevitably there would be a super powerful elven nation of NPC in the game, regardless of setting, and the party would run afoul of them. Nature loving not in the peaceful warders of the woods type elves, but psycho E.L.F. elves with direct connections to all the powers of magic and EGO's the size of texas. *shiver*
So back on topic here, finding games through friends can be good, but I've gotten burned once, so I'm a tad jaded on it all, from now on if I ever move I'll be finding folks on my own, or just starting my own game, advertising it, then getting to know some folks in the area who game from there.
Sir Osis of Liver
Explorer
Last time i need to put a group together it was pretty muchg done through the boards. Check out the gamers seeking gamers forum,
diaglo
Adventurer
online i use several message boards or services to advertise for groups.
unfortunately, no one has answered in my area.
i did, however, read other messages there. and have found 6 groups thru the internet or spinoffs or friends/coworkers.
again the bad side is they only play the latest edition.
my best success rate is with www.accessdenied.net or the RPG Classifieds on the WotC message board community.
i have ads at www.dragonsfoot.org and here on ENWorld's Gamers seeking Gamers
unfortunately, no one has answered in my area.
i did, however, read other messages there. and have found 6 groups thru the internet or spinoffs or friends/coworkers.
again the bad side is they only play the latest edition.
my best success rate is with www.accessdenied.net or the RPG Classifieds on the WotC message board community.
i have ads at www.dragonsfoot.org and here on ENWorld's Gamers seeking Gamers
