What is the etiquette and process of meeting people and playing in a shop?
I have recently moved out of state and have no friends to play games with anymore.
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this looks like a staged photo of womens lib c**ts trying to act like they play tg
This photo is staged? How could you tell?
You must play a lot of detective games.
No one here cares about your sexual fantasies. Discuss traditional games or frick off, hypocrite.
Yeah, it's blindingly obvious.
Like a photograph of a bunch of men browsing for bath-bombs at "Lush", it just doesn't gel.
I have seen girls in lgs, but I do a double-take every time because it's once every few years.
Trannies on the other hand, all crawl out of the woodwork on mtg night, which drives the normal grogs into hiding, because they just don't want the bother of the inevitably negative interactions with those walking cluster-B rolodexes.
Was it the fact that there's one dice to be seen between 3 tables, or the fact that there's apparently a stormcast eternals vs necrons game being played that gave it away?
>table to the right has no minis of any kind visible
>hat has no idea what she's looking at
>hairbun is a mime trying to escape an invisible box, having misinterpreted the
>table in the back/middle has a guy playing against the support pillar of the building
>back-left is preparing to hover out of the store
>two girls in the center making a toast like they've never held a cup in their lives
I wish I had friends so bad bros
I just can't stand people
Argh
I made online friends with gamers, they are super gossipy for men
Take this for example.
Everybody is like a cookie cutter chud or the polar opposite blue haired weirdo in this space. I need to find people who are just polite and decent and love playing games. I need to find people who like grunts.
Look up the shops that are within a reasonable driving distance, go to the shop and figure out if and when they have nights for what you are interested in, shower, shave, show up, introduce yourself, game, figure out if you like the scene and people, join whatever FB or discord group they use to organize events, gradually get to know people, friendship. It takes a while, but you have to put yourself out there and see what happens
So, the shop down the street from me has a few "open game" nights. Do I just show up with my own games or can I just sit at someone's table? Is it ok to just approach a table and ask to play?
I think you should make an effort to visit on regular days ocasionally, not game nights. Try and open up with a topic of conversation and see if you can get some feedback. If not, wait for someone else to mention something you know about and interject and see if you can hit it off that way. Charisma and all that.
Especially, just ask the owner about game nights, whatever you're wondering about them, if you can just bring yours, or ask if there's open seats for other's games.
>Do I just show up with my own games or can I just sit at someone's table? Is it ok to just approach a table and ask to play?
Go in the daytime, talk to the cashier or the manager about the games that get run there. When they mention something you like say 'cool, I play X' then ask them if there are any tables or games open for it. They will know what games are running because they have to schedule the tables.
>What is the etiquette and process of meeting people and playing in a shop?
Go to the shop, make small talk with the employees, and explain your situation.
>I've recently moved here and am interested in playing games around here. Any way you could help me?
And they'll probably tell you what nights they have what games and events, etc. Attend one of those nights, introduce yourself, make small talk about the games you like.
This is the process that's worked for me in any games shop I've ever played in.
Aside from this basic process, I personally treat the games shop like I do my workplace; be clean and presentable, be polite and warm in manner, and be proactive and communicative regarding issues and barriers that may arise. Unlike work, if I'm being hosted by the LGS, I'm buying something from the LGS, and I'll make efforts to behave in a gentlemanly manner with anyone I'm playing with- the opponent gets the benefit of the doubt.
All depends on the game you're into, but I've done just fine playing Magic, Netrunner, Malifaux, Infinity and 40K with total strangers at various shops and clubs. Just don't be too self-absorbed and be sure to put the person opposite you before the game, and you'll be fine.
>What is the etiquette
Dinner and a blowjob first, than you can shake hads and play.
I find it hard to believe people could be so socially inept they'd need guidelines for such basic interaction.
nerds are fricking sensitive. half of them are autistic and i dont want to scare them off first thing.
Stop pretending like it’s them and not u lol. I’ll give you basic human interaction tips, just walk up to a table and make small talk about the current thing happening and eventually k work in that you’d like to play sometime.
Good way to get told to frick off. Don't interrupt people when they're playing, they don't give a shit what your opinion of Event Happening in Current Year is or your view on how they're playing the game/their models/whatever inane wank you try spouting.
Talk to the people who're waiting to start games, or who're taking a break between them, or better yet don't "cold approach" people like you're some cringegay pickup artist at all, speak to the staff and ask them to introduce you to people looking for more players for the system you're interested in.
>they'd need guidelines for such basic interaction.
From Ganker no less
one of the best things that normies have flooded nerd culture is that you now know you can interact with them like normal people. I went to meet actual nerds back in the day when only autists played D&D and these fricking people were insufferable. no manners, unpleasant touching, unpleasant unfunny jokes and other cringe shit that was meant to "break the ice" in their moronic autistic head. I fricking hated nerds every time I've interacted with them. I fricked one of the dudes' gf.
i wish my local game store was this full of fat girls
Watching you drown while I die of thirst.
If you are playing in a shop, keep in mind that you are agreeing to be a living advert, advertising the products that the shop wants to sell. Ideally, you should:
Have a good personal appearance and hygiene.
Hopefully be the ideal demographic the shop is trying to intice into becoming customers..
No swearing or rage quitting.
Use only OFFICIAL models that the shop sells, no modifying, scratchbuilding or painting them differently from how they appear in the catalogues and box art, as this confuses potential customers when they ask to buy the products you are using.
Look like you are having fun at all times.
Only play short games as this allows the shop to give every potential customer a go at finding out how much fun the game is.
Act positive when a potential customer interrupts your game to ask questions, picks up to examine a model, or starts leafing through your game book/phone, no matter how clumsy or dirty their fingers are.
Be respectful and obey the commands of the shop owners -You don't want to block a sale.
>t. James Workshop
I seriously hope this is a shitty baitpost, because if not seriously frick yourself in the arse with a rusty broken sewer pipe, you absolute poofter. LGS provide space to game in the hope of enticing *you* to buy stuff, they have no *right* to your money and they certainly have no right to turn you into a human billboard. If some Little Hitler LGS owner doesn't like that widely established social contract, they can charge for table time.
Shit like this is why 1st world countries game in social clubs not retail outlets pretending to be your buddy.
The usual suggestion is not to do that, because the only people who play with randos in shops are the types who are too insufferable to make friends to play with. But as your assumption is that you're unable to make them too, you might just fit in fine with the other social rejects. Just for the love of God, take a shower, shave and get a set of clean clothes before you leave your basement.
I'm surprised no one else has suggested this, but you can meet people through the shop without playing there if you do up a flyer and ask the shopkeepers permission to put it up.
Most game shops maintain a small pinboard for flyers of games, contests, promotions and professional model painters. Just do up a flyer listing the games you're interested in playing or even running with a throwaway email address on the bottom, and wait for people to contact you. You might only get two people but that's enough to get started, and more than you have now.
Why are sigmarines fighting necrons on that table?
Damn dude that's a fancy-ass game store
>me when my Aeldari table some Spess Marines
Why is she wearing a hat indoors
it's an American thing
It is my culture, my heritage, my tradition.
>t. gold Chevron E-6
Have you really been in so long you forgot normal people don't need to take off their covers inside?
Wearing hat indoors has been acceptable for women for centuries.
>why is the woman covering her hair
Maybe because she isn't a prostitute
That's her personality. You expect her to just remove her personality in a social situation? What's wrong with you?! How will everyone else know she's a quirky, but also stylish?
haate these shops
hate the people in them
hate "traditional games"
dungeons and dragons is gay and for gays
youre all greasy as frick
Yes. Join ussss
>Find out what night is the game you want to play, maybe ask the staff for info about the state of the game there
>Introduce yourself
>Stage photo of girls playing
>None of them are actually playing
>Pic featuring women casually playing warhammer
Is this AI, Photoshop or staged?
Obviously staged, one table has no minis at all another has a mix of AoS and 40k minis
It's sad. If you were going to bother to stage it Why not at least make the models from the same game
Looks staged. Everything's way too clean, there's no random dice/tape measures/rulebooks/armylists/killed minis/army bags on the floor.
The back table has no miniatures on it other than terrain and they're playing stormcast vs necrons, it's very obviously a marketing image for whatever the frick store that is.
Just talk to someone, I guess. Or see when a tourney is and join that.
>those two are too normal looking, throw some hats on them or something. bring the big gal up front