New Posts For Thread: How did you start your DnD group?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_groupHow did your DnD group come to be? Did you join a group, and later become the DM, or did you and your friends start the group and decided you'd be the DM? I'm curious because I am having a difficult time starting one. I'm a freshmen in college, andWhen I was in college, I had the good fortune to find and become friends with a few otrher gamers our small college (Alma College in Michigan) didn't have any official club for that yet, and being a small college, the gamer community was kind of smahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_group?post_id=526322573#526322573When I was in college, I had the good fortune to find and become friends with a few otrher gamers our small college (Alma College in Michigan) didn't have any official club for that yet, and being a small college, the gamer community was kind of smaSat, 24 Nov 2012 06:02:40 -0600My groups are made up of a mixture of friends, people from meetup (we have a local gaming meetup group) penandpapergames, people I met at encounters at a local game store and obsidianportal.Step 1 is to find the players.Getting them to play rather thhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_group?post_id=526317279#526317279My groups are made up of a mixture of friends, people from meetup (we have a local gaming meetup group) penandpapergames, people I met at encounters at a local game store and obsidianportal.Step 1 is to find the players.Getting them to play rather thFri, 23 Nov 2012 21:16:50 -0600I post to various forums and volunteer to GM something mainstream (Call of Cthulhu, Conan, and WFRP tends to get more 'role' players than if I volunteer to run a combat-monkey game..but sometimes volume of new players is helpful).MY latest WFRP grouphttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_group?post_id=526316763#526316763I post to various forums and volunteer to GM something mainstream (Call of Cthulhu, Conan, and WFRP tends to get more 'role' players than if I volunteer to run a combat-monkey game..but sometimes volume of new players is helpful).MY latest WFRP groupFri, 23 Nov 2012 20:24:36 -0600Got back into D&D a few years ago when my daughters asked about the red box they saw in a Hastings. I told them about the fun we had with D&D back in the late 70's and so we picked it up. I had to learn the 4E rules but I love them ten-times over whttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_group?post_id=526094251#526094251Got back into D&D a few years ago when my daughters asked about the red box they saw in a Hastings. I told them about the fun we had with D&D back in the late 70's and so we picked it up. I had to learn the 4E rules but I love them ten-times over wThu, 15 Nov 2012 13:07:01 -0600My group started as my friends group. Played for a year and he was going to move away. No one wanted to stop playing though, so I took over with my own story. I had already GMd another RPG, so I had experience doing so. We used to game once a week.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29485047/How_did_you_start_your_DnD_group?post_id=526091067#526091067My group started as my friends group. Played for a year and he was going to move away. No one wanted to stop playing though, so I took over with my own story. I had already GMd another RPG, so I had experience doing so. We used to game once a week.Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:15:11 -0600