How do you find players? Options

[Lass]

Meetup.com seems to be the way to go - My group which started as a scifi reading group evolved into an activity group that includes gaming. At this point we have regular Shadowrun and Mutants and Masterminds games going with too many people wanting in!

[Kagetenshi]

I use snares, mostly. Put them in well-trafficked areas and you'll get a few players. Pits also work, but they require more effort and generally have to be put in more out-of-the-way locations.

~J

[Bitten the Bug]

Well, I am married to one of my players, whom have been nagging me into become a GM in SR. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) He was burned out as a gm and I wanted to play.
I had to start from scratch. The gaming community in Denmark isn't that big to begin with (only about 3-5 gaming shops as such and most of them concentrated in or around the capital). So I searched the internet for danish gaming communities and found one (LARP'ers mostly, great roleplayers) where I live. They were easily hooked and now I got about 3-7 players with a core of 3. Great fun. I've played with friends, which isn't necesarily a good thing, since tempers can be fairly volatile when it comes to discussing rules and what not. Even though it is a game and you are supposed to have fun, not rule bitching.

Otherwise I'dt have trawled the internet for hookups, checked on facebook, gameshops, my own small gaming community etc.

[Kagetenshi]

To give a more serious answer now, my approach has been mixed-method. I turned a few non-gamers, but that's only had limited success—admittedly, several of them did things like move away before I could determine if they'd been properly hooked.

Part of my group is drawn from people I already knew who gamed; one of our core players comes from that group. I also had good luck once upon a time advertising on Dumpshock; three of our current players, including our other core player, is from Dumpshock. I wouldn't rely on it now, though, as the dominant game here is no longer the game I play.

~J