Finding a Tabletop Group

[Dark_Lemon]

OK, I've posted before about my attempts to get into Dungeons and Dragons, but all technicalities aside, how on earth do you find a group?!

I'm a student, but I'm actually based far out in the sticks, away from any real student population and I've been desperate to find group! I've tried meetup.com where the only things I've been alerted to in 4-5months are LARPing and one vey weird 'sexual spirituality' group... *shudder*.

I've tried converting friends to the cause and DMing myself with pretty much zero luck and my one possible outlet, an active group that I was put into contact with (via a friend of a friend) has now had its DM decide that there's already too many players!!

So, any advice? I'm eager! I have a car and am willing to travel! I'll play any class! I'll bring food! Anything!


....I'm really starting to feel that the North West of England just doesn't roleplay...

 

[migo]

You're shit out of luck really. I mean you could try playing online via Skype but at that point why bother with a tabletop game? If you're on the computer stick with an MMORPG or something like Neverwinter Nights.

Actually, speaking of which, get Neverwinter Nights and find people online to play with. Mechanics wise it's based on 3.x, so it'll roughly be like playing D&D.

From there, just be very, very, very, very, very (x200) patient. It's pretty much a given talking about RPGs that you have a hard time finding a group to play with. The problem is that the main appeal of D&D used to be the fantasy combat, which you can get now playing WoW, Guild Wars, Oblivion and plenty of other games, so what's left is the social aspect of gathering around with other players - which is handled by board games.

Speaking of board games, that's your other avenue. Get the Castle Ravenloft board game, or one of the other D&D ones and find some people to play that with.

In both cases you're not quite playing D&D, but you're still getting a good chunk of the experience, and you'll be somewhat satisfied until finding a group to play with.

I'm lucky enough that a bunch of my girlfriend's friends liked the idea of RPGs, but I've got a session today that only has 2 of them coming because the rest of them are busy with work or family engagements. That's the biggest problem with RPGs is they require a significant time investment and it's no longer like the 70s and 80s where everyone works a 9-5 job, or like in high school where you all have the same schedule.