Right now I'm in a situation of having no gaming group, after my 4E game ended recently.

I looked into a local group which does Living Forgotten Realms games, but so far they're on hiatus this month.  (They're resuming play next month).

Quote from: RPGPundit;356309Would you call it quits?
Would you go out looking for new players?
If so, would you know where to look?
What methods would you use to get a group again?
How easy do you think that would be to do in your area?

RPGPundit

I think I would take a long break from gaming, just realizing that the odds of finding a group as good as my old one are remote. I'm currently gaming with some of the best players I've ever known.

I'd eventually look for new players, if I felt the desire to give gaming another go.

Certainly. There is a local message board for people within 100 miles of me. There are also other websites that you can locate players: Nearby gamers etc. Meetup.com is an excellent source for finding players of a particular game, expecially if they are actively playing in a local public venue.

I'd meet new players in a public venue then play some one-shots for a few months. Those I felt comfortable with would get an invite into my home. Those that I didn't feel comfortable with would not.

Finding (or building) an RPG group is easy. Finding an RPG group that you enjoy is somewhat harder to accomplish.

Quote from: Abyssal Maw;356310I would put an email on the LFR list saying "I'm running a game at my apartment", wait about an hour, and then probably just take the first six people that signed up.

Really?  I mean, I've played with random people at cons, a significant proportion of them are utter fucknuts, either weird or utterly passive or some other style of too strange to happily have in your home.  LFR or not, I'd screen those people.

That aside, I'd find a new group, obviously, though with slightly less ease than Abyssal since I don't play as popular a choice of game as he does.

Would you call it quits?

Ain't no way.

Would you go out looking for new players?

Yup.

If so, would you know where to look?

No, but I'd work it out quick, I have an idea where to look to find out where to look.

What methods would you use to get a group again?

Sheer charisma.  I was randomly rolled, so got stuck with that instead of something decent, like strength.

How easy do you think that would be to do in your area?

Easy as pie.  London after all.

Quote from: Balbinus;356382Really?  I mean, I've played with random people at cons, a significant proportion of them are utter fucknuts, either weird or utterly passive or some other style of too strange to happily have in your home.  LFR or not, I'd screen those people.

This is very wise. When you meet an asshat in public, you can leave or give that person a wide berth, also noting that you won't be gaming with them again anytime before hell freezes over.

You screen folks. Therefore you have a much lower chance of inviting an asshat into your home. Endure having the headache in public if you must but always seek to avoid having a migraine in your own home.

Quote from: Balbinus;356382I mean, I've played with random people at cons, a significant proportion of them are utter fucknuts, either weird or utterly passive or some other style of too strange to happily have in your home.

Quote from: PaladinCA;356386This is very wise. When you meet an asshat in public, you can leave or give that person a wide berth, also noting that you won't be gaming with them again anytime before hell freezes over.

You screen folks. Therefore you have a much lower chance of inviting an asshat into your home. Endure having the headache in public if you must but always seek to avoid having a migraine in your own home.

Amen, brothers. Amen.

Quote from: Abyssal Maw;356310I would put an email on the LFR list saying "I'm running a game at my apartment", wait about an hour, and then probably just take the first six people that signed up.

Are you insane? At your own apartment? This is like responding to one of those God-awful pop-up windows that suggest "Have hot, random sex NOW within 5 miles of your ZIP code -- 16 people are currently available."  Eew.

I'm a lot more discriminating about who I'll play with.  The social aspect of gaming quickly reached parity with the actual gaming process in my career, eclipsing it to the point where, when it comes to something as intimate as roleplaying, I want to play only with people I know I like.  Wargaming is a rather different matter.

In the past, I've organised, both as a player and GM, through my favorite local shop.  Get a feel for the sort of people who pass through its doors, talk with the shop owner to see who's interested in similar games.  I'm not afraid to take an extended breather from active gaming if the alternative is cobbling an uncomfortable group together for dodgy gaming, and instead rely on irregular gaming with old -- if only sporadically available -- friends.

I guess I have the luxury of not having to pack in all the gaming hours I can with the current top-selling title before the new edition is released and I have to learn a new system.

!i!

Now you're just trying to hurt me. And it was not Rekjavik.....it's was Europe (mostly) and South America

Regards,
David R

I'd take a break for a couple of weeks get some writing done, then worry about getting a new group together.

I wouldn't call it quits.  I'd just get a new group.  Between knowing a lot of gamers in this burg and the cooperation of my FLGS I wouldn't expect it to take long.

I'd sure as heck miss my current group though.  They rock.

Being a hardcore gamer in Southeast Asia has brought me to realize that ANY group of people ANYWHERE is a potential gaming group. If I'm there, and in the mood for a game, I'm going to suggest it. I've played with university professors, Buddhist monks, Korean elementary students, trading company secretaries, and retired war veterans, both American and Vietnamese. Call it the Campaign of Dreams - if you build it they will come (even if you have to call them).

Those of you that could magically form a new group in under a month ought to count yourselves lucky.

In my area its virtually IMPOSSIBLE to get an active group going.

Trickier than you think.
My game group have been my best mates since I was 10 we were best men at each other's weddings, we even work at the same place, one of them shared that jail spell in Stockholm after my stag do, we have shared flats, holidays, parties, teen angst, the wild 20's, 30s marriages, having kids and now we are starting on our mid-life crises.

In addition we have no games stores within 30 miles (and I live in a town of 250,000 people) and I have played with random groups at cons and with a few exceptions most of the players I meet just aren't very good.
So I could hang round the university looking for groups of 18 year olds. I could use facebook and invite 6 random nutters I have never met into my house (WTF??) or I could stick with online games and run a couple more murder mysteries each year (though I would need to hire some more male actors).

Went I went up to Uni I joined game groups and was disappointed. I eventually found a couple of kindred spirits and that worked out but it was helped because a couple of my mates moved up to London to pad out the numbers. In any case it was university so I was really too busy drinking and having sex to play much (well apart from that whole 'miniatures' phase in 2nd year ... man way to blow that term's grant). One of my girlfriends tried it for a while but she just wanted to get into my pants (women what you going to do). When I was teaching I thought about running a group for the kids but I ended up in a Girls' Grammar school so whilst I could have filled the room they would have been there for alterior motives.
So .... actually whilst it sounds easy if I lost the group I might be forced to actually write that novel or focus on the career for a while rather than plan out the next game session whilst pretending to listen to that conference call on Risk Process Management. Well at least until my daughter moved from 'people stories' to proper games.

I probably would call it quits and just play MMORPGS, since it took a couple of years to find the groups I am in right now.

I don't live in an area where there are many gamers sadly.

Though the chances of both of my groups ending all of a sudden is so slim, I doubt it would happen.  If one group died I would offset the lack of that group with MMORPG time.

I'd probably start some new non-gaming project, like a book or something. I'm so comfortable with my gaming group that finding a new one would be like jumping back into dating after having been married for ten years.

Eventually, though, I'd almost certainly come back to it again.