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May. 9th, 2019 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreHad our second Meetup this evening, which was meant to be me teaching a bunch of D&D newbies how to make characters. Things that went wrong:
1) The Meetup organizer got sick at the last minute and couldn't make it
2) She was the one who was bringing the printed character sheets and I didn't find out she wasn't coming till I got to the Meetup
3) The tables at the game store were all full by the time we got there
So it turned out to be me and four dudes on a bench in a nearby courtyard, building D&D characters via apps on our phones. Fortunately, these were basically throwaway characters to walk through the mechanical process - we didn't talk about backstory or how to fit them into a campaign or anything.
Not exactly what I was hoping for. I mean, they seem like good dudes and I wouldn't mind playing with them but I was excited by the number of ladies who came to the last Meetup - 5 out of 8! - and was hoping to have something like that ratio again. I didn't have a bad time but I hope we can sort of reprise this in a later Meetup with better results. And actual paper character sheets.
Having the Meetup outside was nice though. I'll definitely suggest that for next time. The weather's been really pleasant and I think it would be easier to find space to play in a park than in the game store.
1) The Meetup organizer got sick at the last minute and couldn't make it
2) She was the one who was bringing the printed character sheets and I didn't find out she wasn't coming till I got to the Meetup
3) The tables at the game store were all full by the time we got there
So it turned out to be me and four dudes on a bench in a nearby courtyard, building D&D characters via apps on our phones. Fortunately, these were basically throwaway characters to walk through the mechanical process - we didn't talk about backstory or how to fit them into a campaign or anything.
Not exactly what I was hoping for. I mean, they seem like good dudes and I wouldn't mind playing with them but I was excited by the number of ladies who came to the last Meetup - 5 out of 8! - and was hoping to have something like that ratio again. I didn't have a bad time but I hope we can sort of reprise this in a later Meetup with better results. And actual paper character sheets.
Having the Meetup outside was nice though. I'll definitely suggest that for next time. The weather's been really pleasant and I think it would be easier to find space to play in a park than in the game store.
