Posts Tagged by finding players
| January 12, 2012 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
The most widely accepted theory as to what killed the dinosaurs is that an asteroid (maybe a comet) slammed into the Earth about 65 million years ago. A big enough rock moving fast enough is all it took to obliterate the largest and fiercest creatures to have ever walked upon the surface of this planet. Well asteroid Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition has been spotted and it has the potential to be an extinction event for many gaming groups. Unlike a Tyrannosaurus Rex though you…
| September 30, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Filling the Empty Chair is a PDF resource designed to help gamers find people to play with. Written by Johnn Four, the the editor of Roleplaying Tips, it combines player-finding advice with freely-available information. It’s a 30-page PDF available for download from RoleplayingTips.com for $7. This is a review of Version 1.03. As the back of the book indicates, this is a “living document” and may be updated as resources change, etc. Johnn emailed me and asked if I’d like to review Filling the Empty…
| June 3, 2010 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
First Time GM is a series of articles dedicated to the newly-minted game master, making his or her first tentative die rolls behind the screen. Today’s article deals with finding a group of players, deciding on a time and a place to play, and ensuring that everyone is on the same page once the game starts. Finding players Some GMs are lucky enough to inherit or adopt a fully-developed group of players. But some poor souls are truly at the beginning, and have no idea…
| May 13, 2008 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Phoenix came to town and was looking for a roleplaying group. I answered his email, because I was trying to get into the wider Fresno scene, and thought it’d be a good to help a new visitor find a group. (Mine, unfortunately was full– an established group in the middle of the campaign, and I wasn’t GM.) We met over coffee (and an amusing misunderstanding). We chatted and enjoyed each other’s company, though there was a lot of awkward “interview” feeling to the talk. I…
