Wanting to play, but lack of players

[MindLord]

My college RPG group broke up for the summer, and I only have 1 friend close enough to continue playing with. Would it be feasible to run a game 1 on 1 or are there better ways to play. We tried to bring the game online briefly, but it didn't work out.

Also, is there a good online game that can simulate a good RPG experience, i.e. not WOW.

[Anburaid]

Check out the PFS pages and see if there are any games running near you.

[Conundrum]

Do like I do, run multiple characters by your self with your friend as GM!

[Pan]

meetup or local pfs

[Kazumetsa]

roll20.net

Not local, but people still take it fairly serious. There is a "Looking for Group" option and you can talk to players before inviting them or letting them join "the group". It's really nice! I haven't run into any immature jackasses so far.
Edit: If you did play online, your local friend could easily guide the other new players in a comfortable path to your's and his liking I'm sure.

As far as Online games... I'm at a loss. Nothing has really been appealing since Vanilla WoW for me. It's all just been crap or knockoffs imo. I wouldn't have the slightest clue what to recommend other than The Elder Scrolls online - in which it isn't out and is currently in Closed beta.

[kmal2t]

You know there's a section on this forum for this, right?

[Worldbuilder]

Play online. I love playing online. Its great - check this out: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pathfinder-society-onlin e-collective.

I don't go there much anymore cause I have an online group I usually play with, but they run about a dozen PFS games a week.

[judas 147]

Dungeons & Dragons online, is very neat game, also, its placed in Eberron. i actualy found a guild a year ago named Red Goblin.

Actualy i don´t play it so often, but the guild still does!!

im looking for players too!!

[Benoc]

I had this same problem, ive only been playing for a little less than two years. No one in my towwn was really into rpgs that i knew, so i started my own group. The number of players has fluctuated and its currently on hiatus due to work.

I have had a major success finding an online group right here on the forum, not pbp either. We run using maptols and in july we will have been playing as a group for a year. We have only missed one week in that time, sometimes someone cant make it so we just run a module or something.

Point is if at first you dont succeed, try again. Eventually youll find a group that is commited to the game. Good luck.

[Conundrum]

I am currently considering recruiting players at my daily AA meetings as running four characters is quite a task. I suggest keeping an eye out in various social circles for intelligent folks that don't fit in well, I have found a lot of people that either do play or are interested in playing this way. Whether you want them in your house is another story...

[Worldbuilder]

I've ran 3 campaigns online, and only one of them has fallen apart, which is better than my offline ratio of about a 35% completion rate. I'm in the middle of running my fourth online campaign, and its going fairly well. The great thing about online is its much more difficult to loose good players...once you find them. If someone moves, they may be out a session, but they don't have to drop the entire game. With the crazy world we live in its hard to have 4-6 players and not have something crazy happen to one of them.

That being said, actually finding the RIGHT players is a problem. I can't tell you how many people just don't show up or are flaky online. Never had that problem so much IRL. What I do now, is the first 2-3 sessions are not even related to the storyline and are just kind of cannon. Weed out the bad players and get the handful of good players. Well, usually I run with the same group, but my current game is a D100 Fallout game and surprisingly none of my PF players were interested in trying a new system. So I did that for this game.

Of course, depending, PFS offers a lot of advantages too. If your normal group is getting back together in a few months, and you don't want to be in the middle of two campaigns simultaneously, its a great way to pick up games. And we can always use another GM. If you GM, you still get to apply chronicles to a character. I like it because if I have something come up I can take a month break, and jump right back in with my characters. Don't get me wrong, I like campaigns more overall than I do PFS, but I play more PFS than I do Campaigns because the nonstory benefits far outweigh a campaign.

Besides the link in my other post, thetangledweb.com and INFRNO.com are the two best places I've found for online recruiting. Tangled web is the best, INFRNO is a good secondary place to post a game, but its unlikely you'll get enough players from there to put together an entire campaign, or you'll be waiting sometime at least.