To be fair, it wasn’t a programmer that got me into D&D… he worked for the QA department.
How about if you like nerdy media but isn’t naturally attracted to high paying tech fields 😭
I’d want to try out D&&D but I can’t seem to find any group nearby
there’s actually great resources for getting started online. There’s a site called start playing games dedicated to matching new people to a DM. Note that services like that cost money. There’s also the virtual tabletop roll20 which has a group finder for you to find a game. It will have a mix of free and paid games. Alternatively, you can crowdsource that such as on r/lfg on reddit (unfortunately the LFGs here on lemmy don’t seem to be active enough to find games), or through various discord servers, including the official D&D discord. Another that has reasonably active LFG type sections to try is the Fantasy grounds (another VTT) discord.
For in person play, you can also look in to local gaming stores that might run adventurer’s league, which is the sort of ‘official’ play wizards of the coast sanctions at local stores and at conventions.
Pwech. I don’t play D&D!
I play Pathfinder…
It just occurred to me that Pathfinder is to D&D what Linux is to Windows. More technically complex, less moral baggage, less mainstream and its fans won’t shut up about it.
and pathfinder is way more open (AoN), just like linux
And Wizards of the Coast (since bought by Hasbro) are like Microsoft, trying to control the platform as closely as possible, trying to define how people use their platform
In our defense it’s a pain to get people to try it.
What a fitting anology! I’m going to start saying “I play Pathfinder BTW” at the end of every TTRPG comment now, I love it hahahahaha.
That could get old. But…
I play Pathfinder, by the way.
Do you happen to also use Arch?
Do you happen to also use Arch?
No. If I did, I would say so!
Haha.
(Apologies to my arch-user peers.)
“I play Pathfinder BTW”
Looks like a Vampire player thing, but may also worx for you :)
Would you believe me if I said I didn’t check your comment history before posting that? I just assumed that a programmer who plays Pathfinder also uses Linux.
I only play d&d because the accountant that hosts the game has all those 3.5 books. Games I host are Rifts or After the Bomb or TMNT
I play whatever ttrpg lets me hang out with my friends
I wonder whether the guy who used to run robotech games here is still within a thousand kilometres
Ah, I guess this is why I prefer other ttrpgs.
Geeks are a race now?
We prefer the term “species” nowadays.
What? No, I haven’t played since a few sessions decades ago!
GURPS, on the other hand… Along with Ironsworn, maybe a little Savage Worlds…
Stop, stop, you’ve already proven their point
Gods! I used to love playing GURPS Autoduel!
Ironsworn is sick
Did not know that I was from the Caucasian race AND te Geek race!
Caught
I guess I’m not a real nerd after all
Well, it said “geeks” not “nerds” so you’re fine.
If I need to what?!?
if you need to… 😉
I have never been so fairly and accurately insulted! Shame on you!
not true at all! I play Magic, not D&D
"Dungeons and Dragons OR D&D? What does D&D stand for if not Dungeons and Dragons?
I think the text is cut from a longer form document. The author may have been declaring the abbreviation for use in the rest of the text.
Some acronyms have many definitions, like CBT.
Clifford’s Brick Transport.
