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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9405807" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Location matters & not every flgs is going to be the equal of a different nearby flgs. Find the flgs with the larger AL/PFS/TCG nights in your area & go with that one. Odds are good that just saying "hey I'd like to run a game on AL/PFS night, is there a free table?", after a few weeks you might have a semiregular group that you can take to a different night for non-al/pfs/etc game. </p><p></p><p>The other thing that works is to talk with the store & work out a day/time to run a game where the store has room & isn't busy (this might be the night they are unpacking boxes of new stuff delivered to them in the room with you). Get the FLGS itself to post it as an event to its facebook page that you are going to be running xyz one shot-ish adventure likely to finish in 1-2ish sessions & depending on interest might run it a couple more times on subsequent weeks to keep the table size down to a manageable number each week.... 4-6 is a good target here because a noshow or two dropping it to 2-5 is less of an issue than if you were aiming for a smaller table with 2-3 that is now 1-2. If everything works out with one of those groups talk to them about how you'd be interested in running a longer term ongoing thing on a different day or after the next game or two if they are interested.</p><p></p><p>Also reach out to everyone who marks that they are interested or going. Do it once after they tag themselves & then again a day or two before just in case they forget or change their plans</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9405807, member: 93670"] Location matters & not every flgs is going to be the equal of a different nearby flgs. Find the flgs with the larger AL/PFS/TCG nights in your area & go with that one. Odds are good that just saying "hey I'd like to run a game on AL/PFS night, is there a free table?", after a few weeks you might have a semiregular group that you can take to a different night for non-al/pfs/etc game. The other thing that works is to talk with the store & work out a day/time to run a game where the store has room & isn't busy (this might be the night they are unpacking boxes of new stuff delivered to them in the room with you). Get the FLGS itself to post it as an event to its facebook page that you are going to be running xyz one shot-ish adventure likely to finish in 1-2ish sessions & depending on interest might run it a couple more times on subsequent weeks to keep the table size down to a manageable number each week.... 4-6 is a good target here because a noshow or two dropping it to 2-5 is less of an issue than if you were aiming for a smaller table with 2-3 that is now 1-2. If everything works out with one of those groups talk to them about how you'd be interested in running a longer term ongoing thing on a different day or after the next game or two if they are interested. Also reach out to everyone who marks that they are interested or going. Do it once after they tag themselves & then again a day or two before just in case they forget or change their plans [/QUOTE]
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