Theoretical Gaming

[Brent Wolke]

As it stands, I game about once a month with a group that usually is gaming every week. When I can attend, I am usually encouraged to GM to give the other GM a break from duties. Essentially, with my Risus 8 Page Worlds, I am running One-Shot con adventures (I really should pretty those up and post them) every month.

I also have it in my plans to convert every 8 Page World to an OSR system.

However, if everything goes according to plan, I shall be moving later this summer to Truckee, California, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It has a population of ~17,000 and no online presence of gamers. At this point, what little gaming I had will drop to 0.

My point? Has anyone gone years where they wanted to game, was active online, perhaps even play-by-post, but were not gaming at a table with friends? How did you cope? Any tips?

Thanks!

[4649matt]

While I was living in the countryside of a foreign land, there was a small percentage of fluent English speakers and an even smaller percentage of gamers among them.
I made no secret of my love of gaming, and after a year or two I had discovered a handful of former gamers, interested creative types and crazy people. We had to work through the growing pains of establishing a group ad finding who fit and who didn't, but it turned into an excellent group. I think the secret ingredient was being a passionate and unashamed gamer (one group member was worried people might think he was a geek, so he was always very hush hush about his secret love of gaming).
Even if you have to teach new people how to play, you will eventually find people to game with.

[msjackson]

When I joined the Army 17 years ago, I suddenly lost all my gamers. Yes there were those in the service, but it was sort of shunned upon (I was in a CAV unit, all macho and crap) and so I stopped gaming. Then over the years, the internet came about and today I run/play in a weekly game. Been doing it for almost 6 years now with only short breaks here and there due to career and life.
I use MapTool and was using Skype until recently, now we use Mumble.

[Nero Grimes]

Jun 14, 2011 0:30:30 GMT -5 Brent Wolke said:

My point? Has anyone gone years where they wanted to game, was active online, perhaps even play-by-post, but were not gaming at a table with friends? How did you cope? Any tips?

Thanks!

No tips. Just know you are not alone. I've been running/playing mostly one-offs since Labor Day '06 with a loose confederation of semi-retired gamers. My foray into retro-clone egroups this past years has been hit an miss as well.