School and Holidays.
As far as season goes, I find it the opposite. Staying inside to play tabletop games fit the winter season. Summer time lots of people want outside activities and less RPG time.
Around here PF still is the go to game, although some are looking at 5e, most don't seem interested yet.
The person running the game I was playing in hit a deer with his car and totaled it, so now he can't drive in from BFE and nobody wants to drive out there to get him. I understand that feeling though, the pot growers and the wineries in the town he lives in are feuding over water so it's a little scary there.
I usually have so many players looking to join up that I end up with a waitlist of people.
Lately, I've had a hard time finding enough players, and have noticed that other DMs seem to have fewer people signing up as well. Our local RPG groups seem to be much less active than usual (most of which are Pathfinder).I believe I heard somewhere that this isn't unusual for this time of year. Is that true? Can anyone else attest to that?
Has anyone else noticed fewer people gaming than usual? Have you noticed it mostly being Pathfinder this is the case for, or tabletop games in general?
I feel you. I'm a player in one game but when I want to GM, crickets.
Well, D&D 5E did come out relatively recently, so it is the current RPG fad. I suspect that interest in Pathfinder should pick up rapidly once the novelty wears off.
Still -- I am currently in a Pathfinder campaign and am not aware of any D&D campaigns going on in my immediate area, so it could just be a local fluke.