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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowslayer" data-source="post: 2566222" data-attributes="member: 8400">Hi. My name's Trev. I'm a lonely gamer.Not a lonely person, mind you. I have a wife I love dearly, a great circle of friends, a family that loves me and I love them back. I have a job that I like and enjoy many friendships I've made there too. And I believe it is reciprocated.I don't fit the stereotypical "gamer" image. I bathe regularly. I don't live at my mother's. I'm not a virgin, I'm not socially inept, and I have a life. And I also believe that that particular stereotype is really a myth anyway...In all my time I've met maybe 2 guys that really fit that mold. I had a great game group once, long ago, in my early 20s, right around the time 2e came out. But they are all scattered to the four winds now. And what I would give to revisit that for just one night!It's not the same anymore.I try...and try...and try to bring new folks into the game. Usually it burns hot, but quickly. People enjoy themselves for the most part, but they don't really get INTO it. I've yet to have a new player actually go out and get a PHB. We can play for 6 weeks and I still have to tell them which one's the d8 and which ones the d10. Mind you these are intelligent people...they COULD get it if they wanted to. Finally managed to talk my wife into playing. SHe's got a friend who likes fantasy, and that friend has 2 kids that like D&D style video games, so we had a little foursome. I decided on Castles and Crusades, as its a lot easier to learn than D&D.  Anyway, the one kid couldn't get into it with her Mom at the table, and even after doing a month of Wednesday nights, I'd still get from the Mrs."do you want to do X tonight""but its game night""oh, thats tonight? Right, I forgot" Eventually I gave up on that too.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.  Answered 2 threads on the Wizards boards for games right in my hometown. Got no response from one (and it was new) , and the other guy posted for D&D but really wanted to play cyberpunk. Exasperating. Talk is so cheap on the net.I don't want to play Everquest online. I don't want to play by email. I want to create adventures on graph paper, and scribble out character sheets with a pencil. I want the heady feeling we all got descending down into the old gaming basement, with a 4x8 hunk of plywood on two sawhorses, knowing we were heading to Strahd's Castle tonight for a showdown.Where's the magic gone?Not looking so much for advice. Just a place to commisserate.</blockquote>

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