This is the really important part. No matter how much shit the developers code into the game, a CRPG can never withstand the sheer levels of
We could make a new thread, and have a play by post on the kiwifarms. there would have to be a herculean amount of moderation.
It all leads back to /qst/ doesn't it?
Then that just goes back to asking the staff if they know of anyone looking for players or any games starting. You can't be the only one asking.
I find it incredibly odd for an actual game store(that isn't just a card shop for pokemon and MTG that just has a shelf of D&D books in the corner) doesn't occasionally host their own events for the general public in the store.
Daggerheart is a game made for nobody and I highly recommend against playing it. If you want to run Genesys just tell your friends that that’s what you’re running and if someone doesn’t like it they can run their own game. Doing that was the only way I was able to break my group away from 5e, and now it’s been years since we touched it.
In what sense?
We reviewed it on Dice Scum. It is a Critical Role simulator. Cinematic, no initiative style combat. Simplistic options for character creation without any depth. Barely any worldbuilding besides a handful of settings ripping off other fantasy and sci-fi universes. Oh, and cards. A fuckton of cards to keep track of character background and abilities.
Daggerheart was designed for "Cinematic play".
Haha good luck getting them to play any other games. 5e players in my experience fight as hard as goddamn possible to avoid learning any new systems. Like to the point where they spend days homebrewing a crappier version of the same game just to use that mediocre system.
It's worse than that. It's mechanics from what I remember, since that's how good it is as a system, was a kludge between some system I forget the name of they aped which has that 2d12 duality dice, and Pathfinder 2e. It has more limited growth for a character than even the Year Zero or PbtA systems, and it's a rip-off from their last shit game. Anything you can do there could be done with Pathfinder or Nimble, or any other d20 system.
matt and one of the other F-tier faggot voice actors did an interview on Dungeon Craft last week and explained/not explained that they went back to D&D cause someone else would be DM'ing who didn't know the rules same old shit just dancing around questions.
Doing something like that involves like an hour of work on the shops part. And just a tiny bit of schedule planning. As apposed to the shop guys just dicking off on their phones ringing up booster packs, red bulls, funko pops & other nerd merch. There's also the single card sales.
That's why I said a game store that isn't just a card shop. Sales obviously surpass rpg and wargamers, but even the space efficiency surpasses them. 2 wargamers taking up a pair of 6x2 tables stuck together is 12" of table space they could have had 12 card players at buying packs for drafting.
That's not entirely what I was referring to. I don't mean just posting a schedule saying it's open play night or whatever. I mean a store that actually has staff doing TTRPG demos for new game systems they stock, getting people in for halloween and christmas themed one shots of D&D, shit like that. Yes it obviously requires having an employee that can do it, and paying them to do it while they're not manning the register but it's definitely a thing that exists at better game stores. The 3 hours an owner can pay an employee to run a game for some randos(or just contracting, more like under the table, a DM to do it) is a gamble that can pay off into generating more customers. But that requires having a store that is actively going out of its way to support the local community, something a card shop isn't usually going to be doing.
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Maybe? I dunno. There's a handful of real game stores in my area within an hour's drive at the most, and then a bunch of basically just card shops that aren't ever worth going to unless you want to buy or play a TCG. I dunno, some people might be unfortunate in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no actual stores around but I've seen plenty of people complaining online over the years about not being near a store only to find out that "too far" was 30 minutes as if that's some great trek.
Well to be completely fair after going there for open nights over 6ish months until they relocated, I found zero quality players. Or at least zero quality players interested in more than one shots (and weren't in middleschool) So I can't disagree that the card shop isn't a great recruiting ground.
