Maybe ask them if they will let you post a bulletin in the store?

How about your posts on other boards that are explicitly for LFG (you mentioned posting on Reddit)? Did you see any responses there?

• Players assume their own identities rather than fictional characters.
• Gameplay is set in the players’ real-world locations, reimagined post-apocalypse.

Sounds like a neat idea. The self-insert aspect is interesting, but I wonder if it would limit the kinds of stories you could tell. How is character creation handled? Is it considered mandatory to create a character based on yourself, or is it simply a fun suggestion?

Also, how does the “gameplay is set in the player’s real world locations” thing work? Does that mean it’s harder to play online with people who are far apart? Does the game balance change if played by a group in a rural/urban/suburban/industrial environment? Or is it again simply a fun suggestion? These sound like neat ideas for making the game seem more unique and immersive, but I’m having trouble imagining how they would actually work in a way that would stay fun to play over and over again.

I have visited shops to find them full of Magic and other TCG players, but no role-players

Did you ask the people behind the counter at your LGS if they do TTRPG groups?

I have posted on relevant socials and Discords like the Discord server for a game store, local area RPG players Discord and FB pages, LFG groups on reddit and Lemmy and Discord

If you’ve done all that and you’re still not getting any bites as a GM looking for players, I’m inclined to think there is something wrong with your pitch that is turning people off. Usually GMs looking for players have the problem of too many players being interested. Maybe it’s because you’re looking for pen and paper players as opposed to an online group? Are there any unusual requirements you’ve put forth in your posts on these communities?

Some people might be a bit nervous about playing in-person with a totally new group. Perhaps you could offer playing online virtually with people in your local area first, and then if you all vibe, you could meet in-person after that.

I ran “The Haunting of Ypsilon 14”. It’s a solid adventure, though the reason for the players to stay and help is a bit thin. Once the players realized that something spooky was going on, they all were like “why wouldn’t we just leave?” I came up with something plausible enough for them to justify continuing to play, but they told me afterward that aspect was a bit immersion breaking. The actual scenario though was very effective at spooking them.

I played online using this micro vtt, since my gaming group is not physically nearby. I just used pdfs for the rules and the module itself. The one-page adventure format was surprisingly easy to run.

That explains why in the movie Predator, you can hear the crunch of Doritos right before it attacks.

I’m a bit unclear on what you’re looking for. Is it like totally randomly generated dungeon dressing? Because my idea would just be to improv the dungeon dressing of a room or hallway based on what you know the room to be used for.

Like if you know the room is a kitchen where the cook was murdered, you can describe a bloody dead body in the corner, a bloody knife, etc.

If stuff is 100% randomly generated, wouldn’t that just break the verisimilitude of the space?

I actually have Flee, Mortals! and just checked it. I don’t think it has anything like that. It has rules for minions and retainers. It must be the other book you’re thinking of.

Just the tip 😏

I see where you’re coming from, but my understanding is that the tracking cookies are already on your machine when the banner is presented, so they’ve already put in the proverbial tip.

Absolutely wild that they’re still allowed to call this “consent”

If we imagine the idea of sexual consent being given in the same circumstances, it sounds a lot like a fucking crime.

“Either you consent to having sex with me right now or you pay me a subscription fee in order to not consent. If you do that, I’ll still fuck you, but I’ll use protection”

Lmao even if you pay, you still see ads, they just won’t track you. What an insane monetization scheme

Person I’m responding to said this was common in continental Europe

Wouldn’t this be blatantly in conflict with the EU cookie law? Like I’m not from Europe but my understanding was that it needs to be equally easy to accept or reject all cookies. Dark patterns aren’t allowed

Congrats to Justin Alexander and Kelsey Dionne. I’ve used both of their stuff in the past (although neither of the specific things that won here). They are both great creators.

I’ve been reading a bit on Shadowdark and it seems neat (I’ve never played OSR before)

Unfortunately Lemmy is a lot more ephemeral than Reddit. If a post here gets deleted, it and the comment thread are basically gone. On Reddit deletion simply hides the post unless the post was of something illegal for Reddit to host. I really miss that behaviour.

As a result, I doubt Lemmy will ever become a valuable backlog of information like Reddit.

I’m not sure, I think it may use an FB account. But you could make one specifically for this one use-case and then nuke your IG account.

If the only thing you use it for is chat, I think you can chat with instagram users on FB messenger instead, which you can then heavily restrict in terms of the OS permissions you give to it.

Newpipe does this I think. Not sure if you can get it on your TV

Oh wow, I had no idea you could opt out. I flew to Paris recently and they were herding people like cattle through CDG and at no point was it clear that there was an opt out. Hell, it wasn’t even obvious I was about to have my face scanned until I stepped into a very claustrophobic chamber, the doors shut behind me, and it told me I needed to scan my face before I could walk out the other side of that chamber. In a moment like that, after being awake for 30 hours because some crotch goblins were screaming the entire flight, trapped in a pod the size of my closet, telling me to stand still and let the techbros steal your faceprint, my personal morals about facial rec were the last thing on my mind.

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This is like those people who say that the only form of safe sex is abstinence. Technically true, practically useless.