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I was wondering why i couldn't find my own games on here when I tried that...
The best way atm to find a game is to say "I'm in ____" where are the games?
They really should save PAST games games on the site (which have a location specified) let you plug in your lat/long and have it point you to the nearest games that have been played recently in your area.
Are you guys using paizo.com to find games? I just use warhorn.net and use CTRL-F to search the entire list of games for things in my area. It works really well, actually, because once you sign up for a game at a local store/home/whatever, warhorn saves it in your list of recent locations, allowing you to always see what's going on locally.
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Are you guys using paizo.com to find games? I just use warhorn.net and use CTRL-F to search the entire list of games for things in my area. It works really well, actually, because once you sign up for a game at a local store/home/whatever, warhorn saves it in your list of recent locations, allowing you to always see what's going on locally.
Warhorn is great if you're in Dallas, new york city, or los angelas and want to find a game in that city. Its not as user friendly if you want to find a game outside of a specific city. If you live in Boondoggle New York your chances of finding a game IN boondoggle are pretty low. If 20 minutes away the nearby town of BanjoMusic has a game though that can be harder to find, but you're not going to search EVERY nearby town in your state and possibly neighboring states if you live on the border.
Trying to find games on warhorn, even when I know what town they're being played in, just returns "Upstate new york locations" and "new zealand" because the towns name has new in it.
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Google? (this is not sarcastic, I am actually thrying to give advice.)
Is very good at giving discrete information but not connecting the dots geographically. Its good for finding PFS in A town but not in all the nearby towns.
Hanging aroud gaming stores and talking to the owners/employees is what orginally lead me to my local asylum... I mean PFS crew.
If I were to try to find my own game by that method it would take me about a solid day of driving and 2 tanks of gas.
you're not going to search EVERY nearby town in your state and possibly neighboring states if you live on the border.
Actually, that's exactly what I did. I pulled up the full list, hit CTRL-F, typed in ", CA" (because that will highlight any listing that is "town, state" -- in my case, California). It took 5 minutes to go through the full list, find everything in California, open those listings in new tabs, and then spend some time eliminating locations that weren't good and signing up for locations that were indeed good.
I do think the system could be MUCH better, though. A map with nearby games (as nearbygamers.com does) would be awesome. Or even just filtering listings by state/country.
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It all depends on how your area has decided to do things.
I've used Meetup successfully to find games. In Michigan, michiganpfs.org is what everyone uses. If I'm traveling, I'll check warhorn, although depending on the area, I've had better luck with google.
Which is kind of inefficient for people trying to find the games.
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Which is kind of inefficient for people trying to find the games.It all depends on how your area has decided to do things.
I've used Meetup successfully to find games. In Michigan, michiganpfs.org is what everyone uses. If I'm traveling, I'll check warhorn, although depending on the area, I've had better luck with google.
No disagreement there.
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Can always try the Regional Coordinator Page. Your local Venture Officer might know where local games are running.