What's the gaming like un these five towns?

Rechan

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Hi. I'm sorry I wasn't more specific in my thread title, but I have multiple-state locations I'm trying to get a feel for, gamer-wise.

See, I am applying to various graduate schools. And while this information will not effect my decisions, I would still like to get a lay of the land.

So, I ask if anyone knows what the gaming culture is like in these cities:

New Haven, CT
Cedar Falls, IA
Muncie, IN
Terre Haute, IN
Pittsburg, KS

If anyone can let me know, I'd be very appreciative. :)
 

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You might want to look in the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum. :)

Good luck- I'm nowhere near any of those towns, so I'm not going to be much help...
 

the Jester said:
You might want to look in the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum. :)
I wasn't sure if this was the right forum, but I'm not LOOKING for gamers so much as just trying to find out if those places are gamer-friendly or RPG deserts.
 


Rechan said:
Muncie, IN

Extremely active HackMaster community, though several of the groups have reputations for being difficult, and player turnover is rare (B.A. Felton's group hasn't brought in a new full-time player in many years). ;)
 
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kenobi65 said:
Extremely active HackMaster groups, though several of them have reputations for being difficult. ;)
I wonder if I'll be able to seduce them away from the Hacking for some non-hackery. :D
 

Rechan said:
I wonder if I'll be able to seduce them away from the Hacking for some non-hackery. :D

It seems unlikely; from what I've heard, most of those players refuse to try anything other than Hard8 products.
 

I used to live in Manhattan, KS, but I'm not too familiar with Pittsburgh. Despite its size, there was a decent community of gamers, though we usually had to leave town to find the newest modules, books or minis...of course, that was before the advent of the Internet and online commerce.

Besides the kids & college players, there was also a fair sized number of wargamers & RPG players among the military personnel at Fort Riley.

My guess is that if it is anything like Manhattan, the university there will support a decent sized gaming community, and I'm sure there are other military installations in the area to help make those numbers swell a little more.

Furthermore, there are thriving communities in Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and other major cities, so if you're not averse to a little drive once or twice a month...
 

kenobi65 said:
It seems unlikely; from what I've heard, most of those players refuse to try anything other than Hard8 products.
Dang.

Dannyalcatraz said:
I used to live in Manhattan, KS, but I'm not too familiar with Pittsburgh.

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Furthermore, there are thriving communities in Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and other major cities, so if you're not averse to a little drive once or twice a month...
Thanks for the answer!

Unfortunately I am incapable of driving, so the options are limited there. But yeah, it's a college town, so I hope that will be able to function enough. Or, I can try to drag people from the surrounding area, hopefully. Or hitch a ride with someone else.
 

Dannyalcatraz said:
Furthermore, there are thriving communities in Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and other major cities, so if you're not averse to a little drive once or twice a month...

Topeka's scene was pretty dead as of 2004.

I had known all or most of the big play groups there and, at that time, none of them were still around (even the official Camarilla LARP chapters had disappeared). I know that the big FLGS (Gatekeeper Hobbies) had tried to expand to Manhattan a year or two earlier and ultimately lost money on the deal.

The other game store in Topeka had dried up and blown away by the end of 2004 and, despite the Gatekeeper's best efforts, the local Dean's Used Books locations seemed to have more games in stock than the hobby shop.

Unless thing have changed a lot in recent years, I wouldn't hold out hope for great gaming in Topeka. Now, that said, I have it on good authority that Wichita (which had suffered the same kind of drought in the late 1990s) is a happening place right now, as is Kansas City. So it is possible that Topeka has seen a recovery.
 
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