Is /tg/ a good place to recruit players? I want to run something but all my friends work retail with flexible schedules and my college's d&d group literally only wants 5th edition d&d, people aren't interested in anything else.
So, /tg/, how do you find good players on this board?
You technically can. We used to have gamefinder threads. But look at this board. Do you really want these people as your players?
I kinda want a tg DM for an oneshot.
Or better yet have one of the people that hate dnd intensely teach me a better system
>Or better yet have one of the people that hate dnd intensely teach me a better system
Last time I did threads on this loose premise they went pretty well.
Ultimately I think there's more reasonable people on /tg/ than we might assume. Several of my players, or people I know that play, I met on Ganker in general and they're all perfectly reasonable.
You don't need to wait for other people to validate you. D&D is fricking garbage and the sooner you unlearn all the toxic habits you've picked up from it, the better. Like other poisonous addictions, the best method is cold turkey. Just stop fricking using D&D. Just fricking stop. Seriously. Need a dungeonpunk-styled replacement? Use GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.
No, not you. But since you sprint into every single thread calling us nogames for having fun, you're busy, right?
I played a game for a bit with people here before it fell apart because scheduling a group on multiple different continents is kinda hard
It was totally fine and the autism was no problem, but we weren't playing D&D so that's probably why
People are not that different from what you’d find anywhere else
If you're in college just put out fliers or post places online that have local groups/forums, you'll get people who are interested
Don't recruit people from /tg/
What he said
My university has 2 tabetop game groups, and both have fliers around the campus. I'm tempted to go one of them, since I have similar problem. My friends aren't eager to try anything new.
The meetup website can work, and other sites like it. You can also put out classifieds or something. The way I used to do it is actually go to game stores and socialize with the regulars until I actually know them and can organize a game that way.
>Is /tg/ a good place to recruit players?
If you'd been here longer than five minutes, you'd know how fricking moronic you'd be to get players from here.
There used to be gamefinder threads, but no, /tg/ is an awful place full of people who will be awful to interact with and waste your time.
LFG threads are a thing, I think, you should look into those.
I've got two long running groups out of here,but the most recent one is about 3+ years ago. You can try but expect autists and flakers with the occasional good player.
No.
And you don't.
Questions answered.
/thread
>/theading your own post
Cringe.
Game finder threads are usually porn addicts thin-veiled ERP or people desperate to find recruits to play "obscure" systems which they will drop after 2 sessions.
I'm in two games with /tg/ people at the moment. The GMs are okay, not the worst, but with a bit more ego than I'd like and a lot of arbitrary but extremely strong opinions on gaming. I'd rather recruit players from here than GMs.
what are you running and what times do you want to run it?
>Being this fricking new
Lurk the frick moar, instead of making horrible threads
> Is /ThenoGamers/ a good place to recruit players?
No and it never has been one.
What happened to the game finder threads?
They've been used by discordgays to b***h at each other or just shit the thread in general. Also correlates with a lot less people looking for a game than before.
>someone makes a public discord
>egos form
>namehomosexualry abounds
>drama
>they splinter into even more clique discords
>this spills into the thread, exposing the rest of us to their AIDS
tl;dr it's fricked unless you just post contact information and get a lurker to respond instead of a regular
Tell your friends to change their availability. It's retail, not finance. They go in, say "I can no longer work wed-thurs" or some shit, and like magic you have dedicated play days
No. Try on any board but /tg/. Every board is the worst board for its stated subject, and /tg/ is full of c**ts who know a million ways to ruin a game but not even one way to run one.
I will play with you but only if there are rape and pregnancy mechanics
The best group I found was on a alt-right discord channel of a minor e-celeb, which I was raiding. You find good players in the weirdest places, mate, so give /tg/ a shot.
Destiny?
There's a game I enjoy that is very niche that I'd like to play and need new players. I've never been to a table top gaming store and have no idea how those places operate. Do you just sit down at the tables and start playing? Do you typically pay a fee to use a table? I was thinking of posting on meet-up or my cities reddit and trying to get a few people to meet up and play but I really have no idea how or where to go about it. I also considered showing up to my libraries game night and trying to rope people into playing this game.
If anyone's interested I can link a pdf of the game. It's ideal to play in person but people have played one before but that's really suboptimal.
>So, /tg/, how do you find good players on this board?
Travel back to 2012 and ask there. Because inventing time travel is ultimately easier than finding decent players on current day /tg/.
Yes, all of my best players came from the /osrg/. Find a general for a game you like and make a post shilling your discord or whatever else.
>how do you find good players on this board?
Have another shared interest. I found a very consistent long-running group here a few years back in a fetish thread here. I just wish they had better taste than just our shared interest.
I used to trawl /tg/ for players, but the last time, we picked up a stalker who plagued the forum until it collapsed, with all the games we played, and the community.
Frick you, Nekohime, you fricking sociopathic alt-right shitlord. If you wanted to play with us so bad, would it have killed you to stop pretending to be Japanese, female, lesbian, a furry, a spy, dying, and an MMA fighter IRL long enough to put some effort into your fricking actual roleplay long enough to actually interact with us and the GM instead of trying to rape and murder every player and npc in the game, or stop pretending you don't understand the basic mechanic of not calling the results of your action?
Fricking typical /tg/ zoomer, more obsessed with making sure that nobody gets to play any fricking games than actually being a legitimate part of the hobby. That's not gatekeeping, that's burning the castle and the village to keep the orcs out.
FRICK YOU NEKOHIME, FRICK YOU YOU RAPIST prostituteMONGERING WALLPAPER LICKING SHITTUNNEL I HOPE YOU TRY FRICKING A TRAFFIC CONE ON TOP OF A MANHOLE COVER AND THERE'S A SEWER GAS EXPLOSION AND YOU GET SENT TO OUTER SPACE LIKE KARS YOU DIRTY FRICK
that sounds incredible
>NEKOHIME
I... I am talking with someone who goes by that name right now. Frick
>alt-right shitlord
>pretending to be Japanese, female, lesbian, a furry, a spy, dying, and an MMA fighter
That sounds a lot more like lefty behaviour to me.
It literally never happened newbie
I'm pretty sure they were one of you fricks trying to play an exaggerated stereotype of what some Sam Hyde motherfricker would think our little forum community of a couple furries, a couple comic fans, a couple LGBT, and a couple anime fans, and a couple actual tabletop grognards was like. But turned up to eleven, for trolling purposes.
Imagine if Sam Hyde joined your play-by-post game, and started acting like every offensive stereotype of who he thinks you are.
The forums we used closed down and wiped everything, so all our games are gone, so I can't prove anything. I'm not going to link you any of the players, or what forum it was, because I don't want any of you shitfricks stalking us again. Even if it's been about ten years and three forums since that frick Nekohime plagued us.
Has she told you she got mugged but took them down with her UFC skills yet? Or when you question her being a six foot tall Japanese woman she gets too sick to post and her girlfriend who types in the same broken English takes over posting?
Just because you can easily lie online doesn't mean you should. None of that happened, stop being so gay.
Shut up, Nekohime. You fat frick.
>I'm pretty sure they were one of you fricks trying to play an exaggerated stereotype of what some Sam Hyde motherfricker would think our little forum community of a couple furries, a couple comic fans, a couple LGBT, and a couple anime fans, and a couple actual tabletop grognards was like. But turned up to eleven, for trolling purposes.
>Imagine if Sam Hyde joined your play-by-post game, and started acting like every offensive stereotype of who he thinks you are.
Sounds based.
Too bad it didn't teach you anything.
NTA but it sounds like you had it coming
Had it coming? We had several campaigns that ran perfectly well over several years, until that prostituteshit walking tumor trolled us. In what way were we asking for it? If I hate you fake fricks from this board, it's because of Nekohime.
I don't know why anyone would think I was making this up, if I was making this shit up I would make myself look better than the tolerant, helpful little b***h I was who kept explaining basic roleplaying rules over and over to a disingenuous trolling c**t who would go on the write a wienering ESSAY on how she rapes and tortures everyone in the party to death, ignoring the GM.
Ugh, I just remembered that she thought "random powers" meant "every power at once". Frick you, Nekohime. Frick you you fricking WARTHOG.
It was Drowtales, wasn't it?
Nah, some homebrew d20 capeshit.
>our little forum community of a couple furries, a couple comic fans, a couple LGBT, and a couple anime fans
You deserved it homosexual.
>Has she told you she got mugged but took them down with her UFC skills yet?
No, she did told me about being an otaku and talks non stop about fallout/skyrim. She is also mentioned being sick, but no gf yet.
I mean, I pegged him as a troon for ages now.
>Imagine if Sam Hyde joined your play-by-post game, and started acting like every offensive stereotype of who he thinks you are.
That sounds horrible to experience and hilarious to watch
this is some high quality bait right here. keep up the good work anon, you're going places.
No. I tried joining a gamefinder discord once that was advertised in the gamefinder thread. I didn't last 3 days on the server due to massive amounts of autism and moronation. You don't find many socially functioning humans on /tg/
/tg/ doesn't provide players in the first place.
So if you find people to play they tend to be relatively desperate.
The biggest problem is the bumpgay and it's janny pimp who slide threads into oblivion by constant shitposting.
By all means try getting players, boards are good enough place.
Otherwise, I suggest you bite the bullet and try r*ddit.
no one on Ganker plays games
Then play 5e. 90% of game problems are player problems, not system problems.
Once you have a consistent group, then they're more open to trying other things. So if you remove the stick from your ass, you can probably find a group to play other games too. Online play is ime inferior to in-person.
>Is /tg/ a good place to recruit players?
Depends, I've found good players on this board.
It's all a matter of luck.
Still, you'd do better by posting an advert in the general thread for your favorite game, you'll have better chances.
Avoid Discord servers like the plague.
Honestly, discard servers, nowadays they've just become games of playing favorites. If you're not in certain circles then well you're shut out luck.
Also If someone doesn't like you, they can go A round and ruin your username where you won't be able to Play nor run games.
It varies. You will either find a great player or some of the most cancerous buttholes that will make you want to genocide most of humanity.
Stop misappropriating Big Lez, you aren't worthy of speaking his name, he was the sickest c**t who ever lived.
I played a d20 game with some fat guys about 14 years ago. Game fell apart after a few sessions, but still friends with two of the other players. Ajastus, I never got your steam id, if you still haunt here, I remember you fondly just never got your steam.
/tg/ is only good for recruiting if your are ruthless about cutting out and blocking people. Furrys, ultraweebs, and all the pedophiles associated with those two fandoms. If you're lucky you'll get about a fifty percent retention rate after drafting and culling. Run intros and one shots to vette players. Don't take any shit from fa/tg/uys, half of them don't play games and the ones that do almost never DM/GM/whatever. There's about twenty real GMs on this whole board and at this point I can practically recognize when one p[osts from their style because IT'S THE SAME TWENTYISH GUYS FOREVER AAAAAAA
At first I was going to say no, because this thread alone proves that /tg/ is infested with schizophrenics who will spout off literally-randomized opinions and will have a panic attack if they see someone who's a [Insert perceived bad guy here].
But then I realized that all my best players browse /tg/ and the rest of Ganker. They're just also able to identify the homosexualry and schizophrenia and That Guy nogames behaviour. Take 's advice and be ready to eject any low-quality candidates because there will be more bad than good ones.
Really good advice. It's too bad it's so hard for reasonable anons to hook up for games because I'd be down to clown but really don't want to associate with the loonies that infest here.
im a legit GM that has been doing it for like 6 years now and posting on here all the time. First for advice and now for stories. Do you recognize me, anon-kun?
I go to a cafe, set up my game (blood bowl) and then read books until someone shows interest and then I rope them into a demo.
Every now and then it works.
But I moved and have to start all over again now =(
>So, /tg/, how do you find good players on this board?
You'd have a better chance, and a better game, asking random hobos on the street than the garbage here
Tabletop games?
Can't game with enemies, politics is session 0 stuff.
I've never managed to recruit someone from /tg/
Just recruit on roll20. This board is a husk of its former self. Nothing but endless generals.
Stop feeding it.
>Is /tg/ a good place
No
>Thread asks if /tg/ is a good place to find players
>Is taken over by trannies and nazis arguing about troonyism and nazism
CLEARLY the answer is no.