AtwasAwamps
2009-09-21, 02:38 PM
Halp!
So, here’s the skinny and why I’m coming here for help, rather than my standard practice, which is to shake the down the local criminal element for information.
A bit ago, I made a post regarding my first DnD game and character. I was super excited and getting ready to go and my friends were happy with my character, whose basis was a mostly drunken fellow who was a 4E warlord. I had insults and praise written up and planned for all my wonderful abilities and things I would do. It was great. I was damn happy and looking forward to the game.
…well, that’s fallen straight the heck through. No game. People got too busy, which I totally understand…except…except…I got less busy. My girlfriend started taking classes. My roommate has been playing pick up soccer (oh god no, no, no). The majority of my other friends just don’t have free time on the weekdays or live way out of the way for it to be a casual trip.Between work and the gym, my weekdays have been reduced to boredom and WoW and random hobbies I try to pick up and fail to entertain (except for the beer tasting one, which lasted some time. I have been told, however, that you have to have DIFFERENT BEERS for this to qualify as a hobby. Drinking a lot of guiness every night apparently just makes you a drunk. Live and learn.)
I got bit by the DnD bug and if I can’t play with my good online buddies via a ventrilo server, I’d like to just bite whole hog and play with a bunch of strangers face to face.
…Now how the hell do I do this? Keep in mind I have zero…and I do mean absolutely none whatsoever, nada, zilch, nothing…experience at tabletop gaming, though I love to RP and have done so via message boards many times. I RP in WoW. I stopped an entire raid from killing Sartharion to deliver a heroic monologue (that’s what you get for letting the RP lover lead a raid, people). So pretending to be a drunken half-elf in a room of people I don’t know doesn’t remotely intimidate me. I just don’t know how to find these people and how to convince them they should let me play cause I’m fun.
I am also not a pretty girl, nor in fact a girl at all, which I feel is an automatic strike against me when attempting to infiltrate a geek culture I do not know.
So…basically:
TLDR: Are there any resources I can use to locate DnD groups looking for players in my area? Would Craigslist serve this purpose? I’d appreciate any help or direction you might give. Thanks, folks!
PS: If this should go somewhere else, I will delete it and repost it and stuff. I don’t mean to mess up the forums, so my apologies in advance to administrators!
So, here’s the skinny and why I’m coming here for help, rather than my standard practice, which is to shake the down the local criminal element for information.
A bit ago, I made a post regarding my first DnD game and character. I was super excited and getting ready to go and my friends were happy with my character, whose basis was a mostly drunken fellow who was a 4E warlord. I had insults and praise written up and planned for all my wonderful abilities and things I would do. It was great. I was damn happy and looking forward to the game.
…well, that’s fallen straight the heck through. No game. People got too busy, which I totally understand…except…except…I got less busy. My girlfriend started taking classes. My roommate has been playing pick up soccer (oh god no, no, no). The majority of my other friends just don’t have free time on the weekdays or live way out of the way for it to be a casual trip.Between work and the gym, my weekdays have been reduced to boredom and WoW and random hobbies I try to pick up and fail to entertain (except for the beer tasting one, which lasted some time. I have been told, however, that you have to have DIFFERENT BEERS for this to qualify as a hobby. Drinking a lot of guiness every night apparently just makes you a drunk. Live and learn.)
I got bit by the DnD bug and if I can’t play with my good online buddies via a ventrilo server, I’d like to just bite whole hog and play with a bunch of strangers face to face.
…Now how the hell do I do this? Keep in mind I have zero…and I do mean absolutely none whatsoever, nada, zilch, nothing…experience at tabletop gaming, though I love to RP and have done so via message boards many times. I RP in WoW. I stopped an entire raid from killing Sartharion to deliver a heroic monologue (that’s what you get for letting the RP lover lead a raid, people). So pretending to be a drunken half-elf in a room of people I don’t know doesn’t remotely intimidate me. I just don’t know how to find these people and how to convince them they should let me play cause I’m fun.
I am also not a pretty girl, nor in fact a girl at all, which I feel is an automatic strike against me when attempting to infiltrate a geek culture I do not know.
So…basically:
TLDR: Are there any resources I can use to locate DnD groups looking for players in my area? Would Craigslist serve this purpose? I’d appreciate any help or direction you might give. Thanks, folks!
PS: If this should go somewhere else, I will delete it and repost it and stuff. I don’t mean to mess up the forums, so my apologies in advance to administrators!