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Only question 4 applies, and unfortunately the answer is no.
But, I know that my nephew who really tried to roll in his uncle's dice box, had a helluva time trying to get a gaming group started. He tried to enlist friends, but that petered out quickly. My suggestion to him to hang out at the FLGS ( i think that's the proper acronym ), and post on their bulletin board only got a response from a 42yo. (who I made my sister interview, thus he didn't end up playing with that one) I think a school sponsored gaming group would be a great resourse if he had it. Next time I talk to him I will suggest, if he still has the interest, that he start a group and see what happens.
1. I'm in high school and we don't have one.
2. Yes PLEASE!
3. I'm not sure. My school is fairly new, and thus the principal wants suggestions for clubs (or so I understand). I am planning on submitting the idea to him when he starts taking ideas.
4. n/a
Where is your school, trembletoe? I may just have to transfer ;) :P
Interesting post, trembletoe. I sponsor a semi-official club at a high school in Arkansas. The group is entering its fifth season. On average, the club has about 10 hardcore members from year-to-year who are primarily d20 and Magic players. The rest come and go. We meet once a week for a few hours after classes end. The club is mainly advertised by word of mouth, and I have not pushed recruitment too hard.
The students this year want to become an official school club; so, we are begining that process. I would prefer that we remain, as Obi-Wan might say, "free of Imperial entanglements." You mention that students drop out around report time. I am curious as to how you deal with grade and school discipline issues. I would hate for bureaucracy to strangle the joy of the game if the club becomes legitimate.
It is nice to know that other groups exist. Perhaps enough to form a network?
I started one back in High School (in 1985) and we had maybe 30 people or so show up (enough that we had to pick DMs to run seperate games). I don't know if it lasted after I left school the next year or petered out.
I was both surprised and pleased by the turn out as I was hoping for maybe a dozen people or so.
The HS I went to had an RPG club at one point. The main problem was that without a core of dedicated, every meeting players, it fell to pieces.
Where is your HS and where do I sign up to get a second HS diploma? My HS was the white protestan capital of New York state so it was hard to find others who liked most games. I did end up starting a trading card game club (I played M:tG at the time), which I'm told still exists. I would have much prefered a more eclectic gaming club though because, well, we all have our favorites and D&D is mine.
When I was in high school (late 80s), we played informally and stayed below the radar. Since then, I understand my former High School has started a game club.
I am going to cross post this so I hope no one gets angry.
I sponsor a gaming club at the high school where I am the librarian. I am trying to help start two more in the area this year. My question is:
1)How many of you out there are currently in high school/middle school and have a gaming club at your school?
2)Of those of you who do not, would you like to have one?
3)If youw want one what is stopping you?
4) If you are older and out of school...did you have one when you were a student?
I am asking these question because I would like to get a feel for how widespread these clubs are and if there is a need out there for an origaization to help start clubs at schools that do not have them.
Just for your info
our club is nine years old this year
we have about sixty kids (although that drops around report card time)
we play five nights a week (not everyone but the options is there)
we have one late night session a month (2:00 - 10:30 pm) and one over night per year both of these are in the library.
I also sponsor the Japanese Animation club, there is lots of spillover and they participate in the evening events.Thanks
1. I'm in high school, but we're a computerized accelerated school (I'm actually posting from said school). Our school days are less than 5 hours long, with only two 15-minute breaks interspersed. There is no lunch, students are kicked off of campus 15 minutes after school ends, and 99.5% of the students here (meaning all of them except me) are the type that would pull a gun on you if you mentioned something like D&D. After all, they wouldn't want their imagined "street cred" ruined, yo.
2. I would love to actually have a group of players outside of my actual friends. Right now my hobby is hurting, because the only people I have to play with are:
-My best friend, who has completely unmedicated ADHD and has a hard time keeping focused at the game table, gets hungry every hour, and constantly quotes anime characters,
-My best friend's immature and erratic friend, whose mother will have heart palpitations if he's not in his room at 6:00 PM, and
-My best friend's brother, who is 12 and does nothing but roll-play. These three are my group, and I've totally exhausted just about every ounce of creativity I've got playing with them for so long. Other gamers that I know, but have been inactive for a long time are:
-A total munchkin/rich kid that is so used to having his way all the time that his arrogance negatively affects my DMing. I've actually caught myself fudging rolls in favor of monsters when this kid is at the table,
-Munchkin/Richie Rich's best friend, who is a good guy but has expressed that he is tired of D&D, and
-Munchkin's best friend's neighbor, who is another roll-player. These three are what I call (surprise) the Munchkin group, because Munchkin rubs off on them and it's all a mess.
A change of pace would be great. I'd love a gaming group. At my first HS (the one I attended freshman year) the geeks would all gather in the room the chess club played in and we played games like D&D, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh (which was popular at that time). I miss that group...
3. See the bottom of #1.
4. Not applicable.
4) If you are older and out of school...did you have one when you were a student?
Sadly there was no such club in my jr. high or high school. Now that I think about it, it would have been nice to have. There was my circle of about 5-6 friends. We gamed intermittently never really getting anything long term off the ground.
Just for your info
our club is nine years old this year
we have about sixty kids (although that drops around report card time)
we play five nights a week (not everyone but the options is there)
we have one late night session a month (2:00 - 10:30 pm) and one over night per year both of these are in the library.
Wow, that is impressive. Congratulations on making such a successful club. I wish you'd been around when I was in high school.
I also sponsor the Japanese Animation club, there is lots of spillover and they participate in the evening events.
I started the Japanese Animation Club at Oregon State University, does that count? ^_^
