[rantish]No DMing for you!

[Hussar]

I'll second Arkhandus on the idea of using OpenRPG. Honestly Reynard, the sweet thing about Open is that there are enough users out there that you will find like minded gamers, eventually. If you run a game, you'll have your pick of players and be absolutely ruthless when recruiting. After a very short time, you'll have the group that fits with your playstyle.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Reynard, there's a bunch of PbP gaming going on on this board. You go to the Talking the Talk forum to recruit players and talk about character creation and OOC stuff. Then you have an IC thread on the Playing the Game board, where you have the actual game. The character sheets go in a rogue's gallery in the Plots, Places, and Rogues forum.

Check my sig for PbP games; I'm running only a single one now, but I've literally DMed dozens and been in dozens more, and I have links to all of them. I have three I completed, and many more that I didn't complete mostly due to the fact that I had a major life changing/job changing/moving event and had to drop most of them. But I'm slowly returning, though I doubt I'll ever run as many simultaneously again.

My better ones included The Secret Scion, Butterfly Cage, and World of Low'verok.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

There's just no way that you won't be able to find a group within an hours drive of you in CT. Use the 'Gamers seeking Gamers' boards here and in other places on the internet.

I just got a group together to game in _english_ in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after just two weeks living here. And they are all Argentinians... I am the only expat. I met them all on a local D&D board (where all the conversation is in spanish).



It can't be any harder in CT.

Ken

 

[shilsen]

Aarg.

I say again -- Aarg.

You know this is a sign from the gaming gods that you need to start worshipping at the altar of 4e, don't you?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Aarg.

I say again -- Aarg.

Well, you have my sympathies - I hope you find a new group to play with. Since the last one didn't work out so fine, it can only get better! (That's what I hope, I might be utterly, totally and fatally wrong.)

 

[Stoat]

I feel your pain and I join the chorus of folks suggesting online gaming.

I ran with a great group of folks in Raleigh, N.C, and we played on a more or less weekly basis. In 2001, I moved to Augusta, Ga. and got married. The rest of the group stayed put, and for several years I'd drive up every six weeks or so, and we'd play all weekend.

Time takes its toll. The rogue and the cleric got out of grad school and took day jobs. The paladin graduated from college and moved to the beach. The ranger got married and moved to Memphis. There was just no way to keep playing face to face.

I had resisted going online for a long time for the usual reasons. Faced with the prospect of no D&D, I broke down and gave it a shot. Now I DM a semi-weekly game using d20 Pro and a message board. It's different, but i've enjoyed it very much.

Good luck.

 

[Reynard]

After some soul searching, I definitely think it is time to take a break. Maybe this is it, maybe it isn't, but for the time being, Reynard is a non-gamer.

 

[Mark]

I think that regardless of finding a new face to face group, you should begin to check out the possibilities of online play. It is a different style of gaming but I have the feeling that it will allow for whole other areas of creativity to be explored. In my experience, and there are exceptions, I'd suggest that if you are more of an RPer, look toward play by post games, but if you are more combat oriented, look toward IM/chatroom games. (Again, I understand there are exceptions.) The electronic tabletop has come a long way in the last couple of years, too, so check all of the demos out that you can find to see what best suits your needs.

Plus iCon is coming up again, soon, so by getting to know the demos in advance you'll be able to try them all out at the con. It's may be a good fit for you and worth a look, IMO.

Reynard, a thousand elves cry for you.

If they were then suddenly silent, that could indicate a great disturbance in the forest.