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Tabletop role-playing games (tRPGs) are a social hobby. You can play a computer or console RPG alone, and you can play an MMORGP with any players that happen to be online at the same time, but for a TRPG, you need 4-6 people that can reliably show up at the same time.

If your friends don't play, you need a way to meet other people to play with. Before the Internet became common, this led to the growth of local game and hobby stores as hubs for the gaming community. tRPGs are peripherally connected to other hobbies, so in some places the game community would meet up at bookstores, comic stores, video rental stores, arts and crafts stores, and coffee shops.

tRPGs are more popular in some areas than others. In the city where I lived before, there wasn't much of a gaming community, the local gaming stores had gone out of business, and it was very difficult to find players. I was very excited when I moved to the Baltimore area in March 2020 and found a very active gaming community. There's even an amazing local game store near my new home.

Then everything shut down due to COVID-19.

Of course, nowadays, it possible to find players and play online using virtual tabletops, so I do still manage to play, but it's just not the same. Someday, though. Someday.




Thanks for reading!