thread: 2005-11-22 : A Seriously Social Issue
On 2005-11-23, Iskander wrote:
To continue with Luke's meme, I'm blessed to live in NYC, part of the nerd.nyc community, and member of the Gotham Gaming Guild. If you're in NYC and environs, and looking for gaming goodness, the GGG is great: to the extent that it totally spoiled me for GenCon, where I found much of the (old skool) gaming blew huge chunks.
At this point, the limiting factor on my playing short-form Indie games is time.
As a case in point, I played (and thoroughly enjoyed) Polaris last Sunday, but I would lay money that the four of us who played don't manage to get a second session together this year. Any time I ask for players to play Dogs in the Vineyard with, I get them. I'm going to try My Life With Master soon, and I have no doubt I'll get players for that, too. My real difficulty is maintaining a longer game cycle, which GGG six- or seven-session seasons half-provides, and developing a 'core' group: the nerd community of gamers in NYC is quite large, and growing, but this city is crazy busy for everyone all the time, and it's tough to get the same small group of folks together consistently.
Particularly when your boyfriend doesn't game (yet), and your job stinks. [sigh]
- Alexander
This makes BL go "Polaris!"
Dude, thanks for the link to the play post. Awesome play. Please e-mail me with rules questions or bring them up on the TAO Games forum. I was just going to answer them in the NerdNYC forums but I didn't want to register.
This makes Isk go "Way cool game."
The only real question was answered by this thread on the Forge::TAO board. Effectively, the third consecutive But Only If... graves in ice as hard as stone the assertions of the first. Neh? [And register at NerdNYC. We're nice. Mike Miller's been to visit, too.]
