Today’s theme is “Connection.”
RPGs are an inherently social hobby. You can’t really play
by yourself. Well, there are solo modules. GURPS did a few and Tunnels &
Trolls is famous for them. But that’s not the point.
You need people to play with if you want to play most RPGs.
How do you find people to play with?
I found my first roleplaying group by emailing someone who
had put up a website that mentioned their gaming interest, the fact that they
were local to me at the time, and an email address.
My second gaming group was from responding to an ad from a
Dungeon Master looking for players. That group spawned a couple of minor groups
when one or the other of us decided that we wanted to play D&D outside of
the main campaign or someone wanted to try their hand at being the DM. These
never lasted long, but they were fun. It was here that I got my first taste of
running a game.
Not long after that, I started hanging out with a gaming
club at a local university. I was surprised to find that I didn’t have to be a
student to play or run a game with the club. There was even a period where the
club president was a player in a game I ran.
My good friend Jordan was someone that I met around this
time. I invited him to play in my game at the gaming club while we were playing
HeroClix. That was about 15 years ago.
Sometimes, it’s a friend of a friend. I first met Kris
Newton due to a mutual friend.
I’ve also recruited co-workers. Boots started out as a
co-worker and became a friend. When I noticed the occasional fantasy novel in
her backpack, I mentioned that I was interested in starting a D&D game. I
helped her build her first character (a ranger with some pretty awesome stats)
and ran her through a couple of rooms of the Castle of the Mad Archmage in a
session that wound up launching my first long-term campaign.
Since I moved to San Diego, my primary method of getting in
touch with other gamers has been Meetup.com. This city is too big to trust to
random connections. The nearest quality game store is over an hour away by bus,
so everything is a product of planning and deliberation.
How did you meet your current gaming group?
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