If you are a parent of a kid who plays D&D or another role-playing game with friends, you may have a new play group to recruit right in front of you: the parents of the other kids. Here's how I got my most regular current in-person gaming group, which has been going for well over a year now. Maybe you can do something similar. This post is about how I made it work. First, I had some auspicious preconditions: Our kids already had a near-weekly game during the school year. The schedule was organized though a shared document to coordinate where and when the kids' game sessions would happen. Because my son was the kids' DM, his school-and-activity schedule was the reverse template for their game schedule over some years already, which meant the families were all used to hearing from us about availability. Most of the families of the gamer kids had volunteered to take turns hosting the kids' D&D game already over several years. This means we knew and trusted each oth...
Musings on table-top role-playing games today after spending a quarter century away from them.