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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6484115" data-attributes="member: 3400">Either of these options could work. I got lucky in that a lot of gamers I knew and was connected to are about my age and we were all starting families around the same time. So a few of us get together and play a weekly game (currently Pathfinder) - and we're still going more than a dozen years later. The kids play together (or I guess 'hang out' is a little more in keeping with the teens rather than 'playing') while we adults play together. The luck with this was pretty much that we all had solid connections to each other before the game started and we're all gamers anyway. Getting a group together for family game night was all-but inevitable.Contacting new families is something I don't know that much about but there are always going to be parents of young kids who are itching to find a game more in tune with their parenting needs than the old gaming group, who, based on all sorts of other threads on the topic I've read, are probably not as sympathetic to them as they should be. Posts at a local game store might generate some contacts. Getting to know parents at your kids' schools or day cares may help. Friend them on Facebook and, if they're active on it, you'll start to get to know if they're gamer-friendly or gamers themselves. Plus, if you do find gamers that way, your kids will already be connecting with theirs and the whole game day event becomes a regular play date in your kids' eyes.You do have to be more patient with interruptions at the table in situations where kids are also coming over on game days, but they're usually pretty minor and, if major ones come up, you've got other parents there to help out. A few interruptions from the rugrats is a small price to pay to be able to game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 6484115, member: 3400"] Either of these options could work. I got lucky in that a lot of gamers I knew and was connected to are about my age and we were all starting families around the same time. So a few of us get together and play a weekly game (currently Pathfinder) - and we're still going more than a dozen years later. The kids play together (or I guess 'hang out' is a little more in keeping with the teens rather than 'playing') while we adults play together. The luck with this was pretty much that we all had solid connections to each other before the game started and we're all gamers anyway. Getting a group together for family game night was all-but inevitable. Contacting new families is something I don't know that much about but there are always going to be parents of young kids who are itching to find a game more in tune with their parenting needs than the old gaming group, who, based on all sorts of other threads on the topic I've read, are probably not as sympathetic to them as they should be. Posts at a local game store might generate some contacts. Getting to know parents at your kids' schools or day cares may help. Friend them on Facebook and, if they're active on it, you'll start to get to know if they're gamer-friendly or gamers themselves. Plus, if you do find gamers that way, your kids will already be connecting with theirs and the whole game day event becomes a regular play date in your kids' eyes. You do have to be more patient with interruptions at the table in situations where kids are also coming over on game days, but they're usually pretty minor and, if major ones come up, you've got other parents there to help out. A few interruptions from the rugrats is a small price to pay to be able to game. [/QUOTE]

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