After being a player for a couple years, and being a DM for a few online campaigns, I decided to start an IRL group.
I've been lucky living in the Netherlands. We have a small, densely populated country with great public transport. I pretty much live at the country's center city.
My goal was to find local players of 25+ who were dedicated enough to play Curse of Strahd every second sunday for at least a year.
I shared this in my FLGS, on facebook groups, discords and D&DBeyond, and received a large amount of interested players. I interviewed all of them with a call, and then had a meetup with all the players in a nice café. We talked about expectations and experiences and hashed out stuff as a session 0. This went great!
We have been playing for a year and a half now, and I love being a DM in person.
If I lowered my bar, I think I could have found a second group easily.
Setting expectations and sharing my goals with the people who were interested in playing was detrimental in all of this.
I hope you find players! Let me know if you need help.
I've been lucky living in the Netherlands. We have a small, densely populated country with great public transport. I pretty much live at the country's center city.
My goal was to find local players of 25+ who were dedicated enough to play Curse of Strahd every second sunday for at least a year.
I shared this in my FLGS, on facebook groups, discords and D&DBeyond, and received a large amount of interested players. I interviewed all of them with a call, and then had a meetup with all the players in a nice café. We talked about expectations and experiences and hashed out stuff as a session 0. This went great!
We have been playing for a year and a half now, and I love being a DM in person.
If I lowered my bar, I think I could have found a second group easily.
Setting expectations and sharing my goals with the people who were interested in playing was detrimental in all of this.
I hope you find players! Let me know if you need help.