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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8960370" data-attributes="member: 6684958">I'd say right up to 2000 myself.In the Time Before Time:  In a lot of places.  There simply are not that many gamers around.  RPGs were a lot less popular.  You could ask around at random, though with only a small chance of finding someone.  You could post a written add and hang it at the Stop and Shop or Library.  You might get a response.  Your only real shot is to hang out at a bookstore or mall and wait to see if anyone walked over to the RPG shelf.You did have the 'lifeline' of Dragon Magazine, or whatever other in print magazine you could find.  And nearly no place other then the book store (or game store, if you had one) even carried RPG magazines.  I remember my Stop and Shop did not even carry Nintendo Power.  So, really, your only option, was to subscribe in the mail.  And I should say a LOT of 'older' gamers were very secretive and or defensive about even talking to anyone.  So every game was unique.  You could not share ideas or exerpences, even if you wanted too.  By the 90s, it did get a bit better as there were more gamers and I lived closer to a mall.  At the mall you could meet lots of gamers.</blockquote>