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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4693507" data-attributes="member: 5143">We attempted to get Living Greyhawk to take off for about 3 or 4 years.  We ran weekly games days, twice a year we'd run weekend long games days.  We advertised months in advance on the notice board and have the store owner telling people about it when they'd come in.We grew to have 3 tables running at once around 2005.  After that, it went downhill.  Less and less people showed up every week no matter how we advertised.  We'd periodically have a new person or 2 show up on the recommendation of the store owner.  They'd play a game and never come back afterwords.  Near the end of 3.5e, there were about 10 of us who played on a regular basis.  We managed to play a game once every 2 weeks or so.Since 4e has come out and we started the same things for LFR, we lost 3 of our 12 players.  They left because they didn't want to play 4e(none of them actually played it, but they decided that it sounded stupid and refuse to even try it).However, we now have 14 people signed up on a regular basis for 2 games every Saturday and 2 games every Sunday at the local gaming store plus a pickup game or 2 during the week.  Most of the people who are playing started with 4e or are coming back from 1e or 2e.  I'd estimate we actually have around 25 people who play.  It's not the same people every week.  Some come only on Sat or only on Sun.  Some come every couple of weeks.  However, the amount of activity around the game is dramatically higher.  People are signing up a week in advance to play the next week.  Previously, we'd sit at the gaming store and call all our friends and beg enough of them to show up to have a game.We have a number of kids who show up at the store for Pokemon and Yugi-oh who started playing with us.  I am not sure I would have been able to teach them 3.5e.  The last couple of kids I attempted to teach 3.5e never showed up again.</blockquote>

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