Hey folx! Time for me to take advantage of my own company’s Player Finder.
My local gaming group in Greensboro, NC is in search of another member (possibly members). We currently have four members with approximately 100 total years’ worth of gaming experience among us. We haven’t been able to meet as much as we’d like to on a regular basis lately, and we want to remedy that. The biggest sticking point is that while most of us are experienced GMs, none of us really like to GM — we all want to play. Ideally we’d like to add another member who’s the opposite: someone who prefers GMing rather than playing. We’re all in our 30s and 40s, and while we don’t object to playing with younger gamers, at least prefer people with a similar level of maturity, etc., etc.
We currently play mostly the HERO System, but we’ve played many other RPGs, including D&D (various editions), Shadowrun 2E, Deadlands, ad infinitum. While we’d prefer to stick with something we know and love, within certain limits we’re happy to try a new game if someone wants to GM it for us regularly.
Our typical gaming night is Friday evening. We gather for dinner, then game. We wouldn’t necessarily mind adding another day or two in there, though obviously playing on weeknights would mean ending earlier since we all have jobs.Here’s what the group is like:
Gamer #1 works with computers. He’s incredibly “tactically aware” and will spot the holes in your plot and your NPCs’ defenses almost before you finish designing them. He tends to design characters by thinking about what powers, abilities, and tactical options he wants, then coming up with a cool personality to fit. In board/card game situations he’s likely to win more than half the time, despite group lore that “Gamer #3 is about to win.”
Gamer #2 is employed as the Line Developer for a modestly successful RPG company. He’ll blather on endlessly about RPGs he’s worked on, gaming industry people he knows, etc., etc., but will make up for it by giving you free Hero Games books and other swag. Despite this background and his earlier career as an attorney, he generally doesn’t “rules lawyer” unless asked to. He tends to be the last person in the group to come up with a character, since he waits for true inspiration to strike before setting pen to paper. He sometimes frustrates Gamer #1 with his dramatic absolutism.
Gamer #3 teaches high school science. Despite his uncanny resemblance to Josef Stalin, he’s just about the nicest guy you could possibly meet. In fact, he will veto games that go beyond a certain dark-and-grim threshold, since he doesn’t care for that sort of thing (which is why Gamer #2 no longer runs Dark Champions games for the group, but his Pulp Hero campaign was a big success
Gamer #4 works with electronics, and is married with three kids (making him the most likely member to have to skip game night). His favorite character types tend to be mysterious skulker sorts, though occasionally he whips out a Superman sort of character that will knock your socks off. Ask us sometime about how he killed the whole Call Of Cthulhu party when he went insane, replaced all of the PCs’ weaponry and explosives with useless look-alikes, and then fled when the shoggoths showed up.
That’s pretty much it! If you’d be interested in learning more or joining our table to see if you “fit” with us, just drop me a PM or post here.
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Originally Posted by Steve Long
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