Lonely Gamers Anonymous (a lament)

[Shadowslayer]

Shadowslayer, if you haven't, you'd be well served to post that over at Dragonsfoot too - there are plenty of C&C gamers there that do not come to ENWorld (It is the home of the C&C society after all).

Yep, gonna do that too. Thanks to all the others for thier tips. I don't know that playing via computer'd be for me, but I'm willing to look into it.


PS to anyone in the know...do these boards only print your sig once in a thread, or am I having some type of glitch?

 

[Hodgie]

I have been trying to peice together a group in Minnesota, and have a bunch of folks that willmostly show up once a month. But its occasionally like pulling teeth. I have a website, post updates via email, talk to the ones I work near...and still have players that show up late, dont have thier characters, have no idea what their chosen spells can do....!

Where abouts in Minnesota? I attend UMNTC although we regretfully seem to have disbanded as people graduate and go onto graduate programs/real life.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Yep, gonna do that too. Thanks to all the others for thier tips. I don't know that playing via computer'd be for me, but I'm willing to look into it.


PS to anyone in the know...do these boards only print your sig once in a thread, or am I having some type of glitch?

Does the same thing to me.

notice no sig below \/
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[Primitive Screwhead]

Sigs are only for your first post in a thread.. a couple folks had such lengthy sigs that a couple posts would push the thread to page 2!


Hodgie, the game I run usually occurs at my house in Eagan, but when work settles down I will be glad to roam for another game when I can! Next game is on the 24th..

feel free to wander over to my web page .. just don't judge me on my html skills

 

[IronWolf]

PS to anyone in the know...do these boards only print your sig once in a thread, or am I having some type of glitch?

Only once per page in which you have a post in a thread I believe. So the first post you have in a page the sig will be there, after that it is stripped. Helps keep things a little cleaner looking that way.

 

[Hussar]

Wahoo, London, Ontario. My very own hometown. (Well, sort of, I'm from a tiny little village nearby) If you're at uni, check out the Purple Dragon. At least when I went there, that was the name of the gaming orgainization. There's also a FLGS on the corner of Oxford and Richmond that I know has a posting board for games. For some reason, the name of it has completely escaped me. I want to say the Silver Slug, but, I'm thinking that's wrong. I do know that that's the right address though. Unless it's closed up shop. I haven't been home in a couple of years, so that's a possibility.

Hope this helps.

 

[Shadowslayer]

You mean Imperial Hobbies! I've tried posting there. Most of the clientele plays Warhammer minis. I'll chech and see of Purple Dragon is still around.

What little villiage are you from?

 

[Altalazar]

I've encountered the same problem - old gamers scattering, new ones scarce. I was also very busy. Now I found a game again, with two people of four being gamers I've known for sixteen years (since college), but I have to drive an hour each way to game.

I could game probably more than once a week, but there are no games here that I know of. I have placed ads in FLGS, but those have mostly turned up nothing - same with an ad on a local online bulletin board for a local gaming collective in another FLGS. I've gotten scattered responses here and there, but it never has crystalized into enough people, at the same time, for a game.

I wonder if it isn't the case that a lot of people don't know about either outlets - people don't go to FLGS as much - you can order online (and one main one closed here recently). Perhaps they don't know about the boards, either. If I were rich, I'd be tempted to put out a front page ad, above the fold, in the newspaper and to send town criers to the college campuses nearby. I know there are gamers out there, it just seems impossible to hook up with any groups here.

I'm going to get at least one more gamer in the area - my daughter - and other children, will be taught to game by me. I wonder what age is good to start. It is probably too early - my daughter just turned six. Six weeks, that is, and she's my first.

 

[Mystery Man]

From time to time I've tried posting in the game shops and on the message boards. I find that most guys in the game shops have already got a group. And message board classifieds are a joke

Message boards work!

 

[SpiralBound]

Hey Shadowslayer and other player-berift lonely gamers, I have a somewhat quirky suggestion for you that may find (or create) some gamers for you.

Take an old D20, hot glue a safety pin to it and then pin the die to your shirt front (a la tie pin style) or your jacket lapel. Yes, I know that this may seem like a somewhat extreme and extroverted idea, but, hey, you're the one who's tried other means and hasn't found a group yet!! Y'see, gamers are a diverse lot and so you won't always know if someone is a gamer. You could LITERALLY be passing them on the street every day and not know it!!

Maybe the manager of your local grocery store is a gamer. Maybe the woman behind the counter at the coffee shop is married to a gamer. Maybe the man selling magazines on the corner is a gamer. Maybe the woman who served you your meal at that restaurant you and your wife went to last week is a gamer. Who knows?

The thing is that pretty much every gamer will recognise a D20 and you won't get confused with a gambler. (a D6 might give out that misimpression tho'!) Even non-gamers may just ask you what that thing on your shirt is, at which point you then have an opportunity to explain what tabletop roleplaying is and that you're looking for people to start a game with. You might find some people willing to learn to game!

If it doesn't work after a month or two, then stop wearing it. No harm done. It's worth a try though. After all, a die on your shirt is a pretty benign and inobtrusive thing. (much better than sreaming "I'm looking for some RPG players!" every day at the top of your lungs!) Many people have much more questionable things written on their t-shirts for no reason at all!