How do you reach new players?


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Scarab Sages 3/5 **** Venture-Lieutenant, Nebraska—Bellevue

In the playtest forum, there is a topic asking if 2E has affected your player participation. Goto Discussion

I've noticed a downward trend. But honestly, I think it predates 2E. And I don't want to sidetrack that discussion.

As a relatively new Venture Agent, I want to reach new players in our area.

Obviously, our local events are public and can be seen on Paizo.com

We post all our events on Warhorn

I also post games to Meetup.com and have created a Pathfinder guild on RPGGeek.com

I even have started posting events on a new phone app called GameFor.

I have had moderate success with Meetup, but I was wondering what else the rest of you do to find new PFS players?

5/5 5/55/55/5

Meet them on discord and steer them towards the nearest gaming table

If you're not on the map it can't hurt.

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Florida—Melbourne

We created some fliers for our FLGS to hand out to anyone asking about Pathfinder or Starfinder games. We have a Facebook Group and post our events on Warhorn and, of course, the Paizo site.

As an aside, I agree PFS participation was diminishing even before the announcement of 2.0. I attribute this to two things:

1) An increasingly high entry level bar caused by an intimidating amount of rule books and other material. (Hopefully, 2.0 should solve this problem).

2) The publishing of D&D 5E which has the advantages of a much lower entry level bar, better name recognition, and free advertising in the form of popular online shows such as Critical Role (a show which originally promoted Pathfinder but switched to 5E when it came out).

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