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The music is called 'The Orgy', and indeed in the film this is what is going on in the scene, but the images which come to mind when I hear this are that of a bustling ancient city.

7 hours ago, lordabdul said:

People looking for a game can look at:

• Forums LFG areas:
  • ENWorld
  • RPG.net
  • There's no dedicated LFG area here on BRP but it might be worth it to ask @Trifletraxor to add one (which could be useful for both RQG but also HQG and Mythras and Magic World and everything else). Especially since most of these other forums don't have much for BRP games except CoC.
• VTT LFG:
  • Roll 20
    • Note that many people mark their games as having "mature content" to avoid having kids join their game, or not have to think about watching their language. You'll get more hits if you check that box before searching.
  • Fantasy Grounds
    • Their LFG page seems to suck, and people seem to either go to their forums, or to their Discord channel.
• Some sub-reddits:
  • Reddit LFG
    • It also has an official LFG Discord server.
    • There's no official flair for RQG (don't complain about it, ask the mods to allow it!), but you can still just look for "RuneQuest" and find a few hits in the past couple months.
  • RuneQuest sub-reddit
  • Glorantha sub-reddit
• Some Discord servers:
  • Unofficial Chaosium server
  • RuneQuest & Glorantha server
  • Glorantha server
  • The discord servers of whatever local game shops you may have (look them up, I know of two in my area)
• Other social services
  • Meetup
    • Look for some kind of RPG meetup in your area. In mine, there are a few (a general one, a couple for D&D/PF, one for horror RPGs like CoC/Vampire specifically, etc.). This is where I've found most of my players!
  • Facebook:
    • RuneQuest Facebook group
    • Glorantha Facebook group
    • Also, same as Meetup, look for any local Facebook groups for your area.
  • MeWe
    • RuneQuest Glorantha MeWe group
  • Some other classified/meeting service, like Craigslist.
    • I find that different cities have different "traditions" when it comes to online communities. This is especially true if you just moved from one side of a continent to another, or even moved continents completely. It's also true if the last time you looked for a group was 10 years ago! It's possible everybody has moved to a different platform!

Look up any gaming stores in your area and see if they have any resources for you. Like I said above, some of my gaming stores have Discord servers themselves where they help gamers meet. Ask the owners and staff! Put the "friendly" back in "friendly neighbourhood gaming store"!

For Reddit, Discord servers, and forums, use the search feature to find games. Everybody is online these days so it doesn't have to be local! Sort by newest instead of by relevance. I've seen the most LFG posts on Discord, these days. It's probably because a lot of people are using Discord for voice chat, and they probably figure they'll get the most replies there. There's one such post seemingly every week or so on the Chaosium/RQ/Glorantha Discord servers linked above.

Last, actively post somewhere that you're looking for a game. If 20 people are looking for a game, don't find anything, shrug and go away, none of them will ever get anywhere. Post online to show your interest, so the other 19 can find you and each other!

This is excellent, thank you.  I would suggest that this is stickied somewhere for reference.  For new or returning players without existing groups (e.g. me) I really struggled to know where to look.

3 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Whatcha all think?

I don't see why you wouldn't do this.  If nobody uses it then no harm done (other than a little work for you guys).

PS - I didn't know you had a newsletter - I've just subbed.  Thanks.

Wow.  Those pictures look quite beautiful.  Always good to have a sacred but unattainable goal.

32 minutes ago, J_Noll said:

I decided to give GMing a try with RQ:G.   We start our game with a character building session today. Wish me luck.  I’m an experienced GM,  but not with RQ:G.

Good luck!

I'd never heard of this either.  This sounds a lot like the History of Middle-earth by Christopher Tolkien, in that it's a wealth of early material presented almost as literary archaeology.  Is that fair?

I found it really hard to find an online game.  After the quickstart came out I looked for a long time but found nothing, so I gave up.  Then with the extended lockdown I decided to have another try, and just got lucky when @Trotsky posted on the Roll 20 LFG forum.  I've been looking on there since, just out of curiosity and there has been nothing for RuneQuest.  There must be a better way to group players up for online RuneQuest games.  I appreciate we're a pretty small audience, but the best way to support the game and help it grow at the moment is to ensure players can find groups.

On 7/8/2020 at 6:38 PM, Trotsky said:

 I can't wait to get a game going...

And now he has!  Because everyone likes a happy ending I wanted to update this story to let you know that I am one of the players who've joined Trotsky's comeback, and a jolly good comeback it is.

I've also returned to RuneQuest after a long hiatus and am loving the new material.  Finding an online game was the barrier for me, but I just got lucky and happened to be browsing the roll 20 LFG forum at the right time to see the needle in a haystack of a RQ game amongst all the D&D spam.