? OK who created the thread and then never posted anything in it?
next ? what is meetup.com, is it a site for dateing, hooking up both or neither, as far as I know it could be a play on words for expensive steaks delivered right to your door.
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Augh...I made the thread, but it double posted, so I deleted one of them. And now, there's only one thread, but the post is missing off it.
So, here's what I was saying:
I've been thinking about making a Meetup.com group for my gaming group at our FLGS. That way, we could schedule game nights and announce what games are going to be run, and we can have group members RSVP yes or no to each night. Also, Meetup notifies its users of nearby Meetups that fit their interests, so we might bring in some new players (or new customers for the store).
However, I realized when I went to sign up that Meetup charges people to run a group - between $12 and $19 per month. If you're a member, but don't run a group, it's free.
So, I'm trying to find a service that offers the same utility as Meetup (mainly scheduling and RSVPing, but the "advertising" aspect is nice too) but hopefully for free.
Fraid I can't be of much help Jagyr.
I still use the old fashioned method of calling my group a day before to see if any schedule conflicts arise, and use email before hand to see whats going on during the week.
We are all full time workers, students and some of them are family guys so with that many crazy schedules somebody has to be the attendance nazi.
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Fraid I can't be of much help Jagyr.
I still use the old fashioned method of calling my group a day before to see if any schedule conflicts arise, and use email before hand to see whats going on during the week.
We are all full time workers, students and some of them are family guys so with that many crazy schedules somebody has to be the attendance nazi.
Yeah, that would work for a normal group. But at our FLGS, we usually have about 12+ people show up, out of a pool of about two dozen regular gamers. Often times, the games for the night depend on who shows up. There's usually two games going on, and there's a lot of PCs who pop in and out of play depending on who's there. The past few sessions I've been running an impromptu PFRPG game for the players who overflow from the other two groups.
My idea was that if we knew a day or two beforehand who was going to be there, we could know what games needed to be prepped, and everything would be more organized.
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You can use Obsidian Portal, that is what I use. You can't RSVP but you can make a post in your forum to schedule.
Here take a look at mine.
Pathfinder Society San Antonio
I use it to schedule our games
Track Scenarios
Post Characters
You can do many other things with it.
It can also link to penandpapergames.com to advertise the game.
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You can use Obsidian Portal, that is what I use.
I've used Obsidian Portal before for campaign wikis, but it doesn't do what I need for this current purpose. If it was going to be a campaign wiki, it would need to support multiple campaigns on one account (possible, but unwieldy).
However, the RSVP function is the big thing I'm looking for now. I might experiment with making a Facebook group, since most people are on Facebook now anyway.
I also discovered Qlubb.com, which I'm looking into.
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You can use Obsidian Portal, that is what I use.I've used Obsidian Portal before for campaign wikis, but it doesn't do what I need for this current purpose. If it was going to be a campaign wiki, it would need to support multiple campaigns on one account (possible, but unwieldy).
However, the RSVP function is the big thing I'm looking for now. I might experiment with making a Facebook group, since most people are on Facebook now anyway.
I also discovered Qlubb.com, which I'm looking into.
If it has RSVP it would be nice I agree.
I tried Facebook, but too many of my players refused to join a soical network.
I does support more the one campaign but it is not free, there is a subscription fee that gives you more options, which I use because I use it for my Home Game also.
Another thing I enjoy about it, is that I can import my characters from HeroLabs.
You can use Obsidian Portal, that is what I use.I've used Obsidian Portal before for campaign wikis, but it doesn't do what I need for this current purpose. If it was going to be a campaign wiki, it would need to support multiple campaigns on one account (possible, but unwieldy).
However, the RSVP function is the big thing I'm looking for now. I might experiment with making a Facebook group, since most people are on Facebook now anyway.
I also discovered Qlubb.com, which I'm looking into.
While perhaps not what you're looking for Epicwords has RSVP for scheduled events. The free version supports one campaign, while the paid ($12/yr) supports 10 for one account.
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I have trouble believing the fees are that high on meetup.com? I guess I cant really say one way or another since im only a member to a few here in the twin cities. I know one guy who belongs to over a dozen groups and most of them only have 2-3 people in them lol. Ill take a look at running a site see if I can confirm this.
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I have trouble believing the fees are that high on meetup.com? I guess I cant really say one way or another since im only a member to a few here in the twin cities. I know one guy who belongs to over a dozen groups and most of them only have 2-3 people in them lol. Ill take a look at running a site see if I can confirm this.
Yup. You can pay $19/month every month, or you can pay $12/month if you pay it upfront every six months. So, you're looking at $19 twelve times a year, or $72 twice a year. There's also a middle option for paying every three months, I think.
Another thing I enjoy about it, is that I can import my characters from HeroLabs
Obsidian Portal supports Hero Lab imports? Oooooh, I will have to go look at that. Last time I used OP, I wasn't using HL, and vice versa.
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Another thing I enjoy about it, is that I can import my characters from HeroLabsObsidian Portal supports Hero Lab imports? Oooooh, I will have to go look at that. Last time I used OP, I wasn't using HL, and vice versa.
Yup, but it is not a Obsidian portal exclusive.
Hero Labs outputs in HTML, you just take that out put and put it into character section of Obsidian Portal when you add a character.
Here is an example of what it looks like, Basically juts the stat block.