Also posted this in the GM forums, but in the interest of mass dissemination:
Hello to the world/forums. I'm new to DH/RT (and to be quite honest, P&P RPGs), and would like to play. I love the 40k universe, and the ideas behind both appeal to me. However, before I rush out to buy up $35-70 dollars worth of books, I'd like to know that I'm not going to read through it once, drool over the fluff, and occassionally tap it for canon the next time the Black Library opens up for submissions. I am posing the title question to the GM forum because I assume their the ones with the most experience of assemblingplayers. Without further adieu:
How Do I Find A Game
(Without stalking the book/gamestore aisles and tackling people who point at the rulebooks)
I figure it breaks down into finding either an online or local game, and doing the finding either via the internet or face-to-face.
Being new to this, I do not have the ready list of contacts/old gaming group that some might, so face to face game hunting can be problematic. That being said, I'm not above picking games of bulletin boards locally if thats the way it can be done.
I also am very mobile due to my career. I tend to be in place for no longer than a year and a half, or have long periods (read 6-15 mos) of absence in any longer settle downs. I am thinking this could be a major detractor from local face to face games.
Given these intial qualifications, I am leaning towards the internet/online being my solution, but am highly flexible towards whatever works best. Especially as I assume online games are less beginner friendly simply because you are NOT sitting there right next to five people who know exactly how to conduct an oppossed charm test and are willign to chuck copious advice at a newplayer.
Just thought you might have missed it, since that thread was set up so people didn't have to make individual threads asking for games.