Just curious how you got your group together? Did you meet cold, strangers in a back alley with a ,"-Psssst, hey Mr. want to play an rpg in a grim, dark world?" Were you friends that began with other games? Did you create one from scratch by advertising?

My current WFRP-only group was created solely through advertising on Meet-up, Paizo.com and other boards. (Meet-up has been our mainstay)

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I met the core of my gamers, for both WFRP and other games, through a local gaming organization, the Schenectady Wargammer's Association. They run a monthly game-a-thon (mostly board games, some minis and some RPGA/Pathfinder stuff) and an annual convention as well as a mailing list. So, through them and the people I met there I found most of my gamers. When we needed more players for my current WFRP game, though, we seemed to have tapped out the roleplayers we were interested in playing with from there. So I put up some ads on the local game shop forums as well as the SWA's mailing list. This got us a couple new players from outside our circle who seem to be doing pretty well.

The internet has made finding gamers so much easier (you young'uns have no idea), and much easier to find gamers with tastes more similar to mine than just hanging out at the game shop.

The strangest way I found a gamer was in highschool. There was a new kid in class, and I think the second day I sat next to him and said, "You play roleplaying games, don't you?" Oddly enough, I was right.

The one thing I've never successfully done is convince a friend who didn't game to try it, but in hindsight, that's mostly because I've moved around a lot and gaming is how I met and made new friends.

We started as a university club, though 2 were not students rather using the club to find games. Of the 5 of us, 4 go back to that in 1986, the newbie joined before 1990, a friend of one of the others who happened to have also gone to my high school. Along the way we lost a couple of good players, ditched a couple of awful ones.

We were D&D until I got fed up with it and offered to demonstrate this system, all have crossed over and like it. One is mulling introducing his teenage sons to it, the another's daughter is still a solid D&D player.

We have a pretty large contingent of board gamers where I live, and my husband and I talked a handful (some new, some experienced) into giving RPGs a go. After having been in several groups as a player that bored me to tears, I wanted to GM for players who have excellent social skills, great ability to tell stories, a fantastic sense of humor, and little desire to rules lawyer. Oh, and I wanted some gender balance, too. And no kids. I'm spoiled in that I live in an area with enough gamers to come up with a group that fits my incredibly finicky bill. Of course, as a compromise, I don't expect my players to put in much time between games refining character histories or thinking about what they'll do. They're just far too busy.

I've lived in areas, though, where we tried for 5+ years straight to get a regular group together with no luck--even taking anyone who wanted to walk through the door via gaming shops and internet forums. There's nothing more frustrating. The lack of gaming was honestly something that drove my husband and I to move; it's such a big part of our lives that we didn't want to spend any more years without it!

a few years ago i mentioned to some friends that i wanted to play d&d via skype with some friends from the US.
they however told me that they had played TDE for years and that they would be in search for a new group. so i asked another friend of mine if he wanted to join and there we had our TDE group of 4.

a year or so after i went to a gaming shop to purchase some TDE or pathfinder books and came back with the WFRP 3e core set. we invited another player and i started GMing. and with the time alot of people heard about our group, since we are the only ones in a few miles and joined. lots of them left again but atm we have a core group of about 7 people, including me, with 2 or 3 "jumpers" any session….

Two of my players are friends of the local tabletopgroup (of course warhammer) and they wanted to try rpg out (I was the only one with a little bit of experience). The third one is my roommate and I convinced him to try it out. All of them love the game.

I've been living and working abroad for the past 10 years playing with a lot of different groups, some I met via online gaming clubs. If you're in London then the London Gamers Facebook group has some of the nicest people I've ever met and I miss them dearly.

Now that I'm back in the cold north I'm a member of two different game groups, both comprised of old, old friends. As for my WFRP group it consists of probably my oldest friend who I've known for more than 20 years, he used to be a gamer but got side tracked by science. The other is an old friend of my sisters who I've known for years as well, great guy and a fantastic writer. I'm so looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. My girlfriend who is as big a geek as any of us. Finally we have a new player joining us, he's another old friend that I haven't seen for years so that will be cool.

So mainly old friends that I've known for ages, but haven't seen for a while, I guess I am using it to reforge some old bonds.