I can't find a game group!

[Treebore]

Switch to C&C and play in one of my Live Talking SKYPE games.

I'll never go back to PbP.

 

[bento]

YMMV, but I have never found alot of gamers from Meetup. Infact, I've only heard of one gamer finding a group from Meetup, and I never met that guy.

Bones - Add two more to your invisible friend, myself and another gamer in my group. We're in our current group via a MeetUp meeting. Miracles do happen.

Curtis - when I saw the DI demo this weekend I was specifically thinking about your situation. DI/VT will probably be the best way you'll get to play with high-calibur gamers that just isn't possible in T-Town. You won't have much of a problem attracting players and you can fit it in your schedule. And I want to play too!

I've been actively reading and participating in Gundark's thread about VT (before 4E exploded last weekend) and I think either OpenRPG or MapTools (?) might be the best solution along with either TeamSpeak or Skype (which went down over the weekend)

Check out the thread and think about it. I don't know what your PC set up is at home, but I think VT + VoIP can be done on the cheap.

 

[Asmor]

You know, back when I used to run on weekdays, Thursday worked out great. I think it's a perfect day for running...

1: It's Thursday. It's not Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Who the hell does anything on Thursdays?

2: It's almost the weekend. If you stay up late Thursday, you're only going to pay for it one day. Makes it a lot easier to convince people to game late, which is hard for most weekdays.

Anyways, good luck finding a group!

 

[Glyfair]

Well, I was thinking about today on the way back from lunch. There are gamers who game in this town that aren't part of the Meetup - the difficult thing is finding them.

There are no hobby game stores in or near Tulsa? That's the classic place to find gamers.

Edit: Try these places (if they still exist, WotC isn't great at keeping the data up-to-date)

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74145/382011
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74135/385624
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74133/381554

 

[der_kluge]

There are no hobby game stores in or near Tulsa? That's the classic place to find gamers.

Edit: Try these places (if they still exist, WotC isn't great at keeping the data up-to-date)

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74145/382011
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74135/385624
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=findastore&storeID=74133/381554

There are game stores, though I don't know if any of the have bulletin boards. Plus - have you seen the kind of people who play at FLGS's lately?

 

[der_kluge]

I've been actively reading and participating in Gundark's thread about VT (before 4E exploded last weekend) and I think either OpenRPG or MapTools (?) might be the best solution along with either TeamSpeak or Skype (which went down over the weekend)

Check out the thread and think about it. I don't know what your PC set up is at home, but I think VT + VoIP can be done on the cheap.

Computer isn't a problem. I've got a gig of RAM, and DSL.

Actually, I went back and found that thread this morning. I spent almost the entire morning pouring over all the links and references - even printed out the comparison chart after re-formatting it in Excel so I could read it.

It would seem as though OpenRPG or maybe FG2.0 would be the way to go - FG seems to have an active community, so I think it might be easy to find people to play with that. Klooge.Werks also scored high on that last. So, I still have some more research to do.

 

[ScotMartin]

My advice? I would try talking to the wife about it. Let her know that gaming is important to you and that you've tried finding a group who'll play at your house on a weeknight, but have not been able to. See if she would be okay with you running a group every 3rd Saturday or something like that. She still gets you all to herself most of time and you get to enjoy the hobby that you love. Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

-Scot

 

[Tamlyn]

If I do run a PbP, it will be a CM.

If you give it a go, I'd play. I can even throw out the OK drawl to make you y'all feel at home.

 

[der_kluge]

If you give it a go, I'd play. I can even throw out the OK drawl to make you y'all feel at home.

I'm not from OK - I'm from Arkansas. You'd need to use "you-uns".

 

[billd91]

Perhaps if you shifted your scheduled so you were living on Tulsa Time, things might work out better?


I do pbp stuff on RPOL.net. The games are slow (soooo slowwwww) but it does help satisfy the gaming addiction a little.