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More languages than countries and a broad variety of temperaments can only make for a broad and fascinating gaming scenes. I'll start what I know there is in the South of the UK.
In the South of the UK, there are a good clutch of independent game shops. As we speak the same language as the US (nearly), games companies have found it not too difficult to sell there. Most of the RPG books published are in our language too, so its easy to pick up new games. There are plenty of games clubs dotted around and most Universities have one. We have a reasonable number of conventions too. I'd imagine that gaming here is much the same as it is in the US, just on a smaller, more compact scale.
Your turn! (Any other Brits, please wade in with what it is like in your area).
In the South of the UK, there are a good clutch of independent game shops. As we speak the same language as the US (nearly), games companies have found it not too difficult to sell there. Most of the RPG books published are in our language too, so its easy to pick up new games. There are plenty of games clubs dotted around and most Universities have one. We have a reasonable number of conventions too. I'd imagine that gaming here is much the same as it is in the US, just on a smaller, more compact scale.
Your turn! (Any other Brits, please wade in with what it is like in your area).
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Permalink Reply by Hammer on -
I've lived in three of the seven cities in Scotland so far, and they all have their pros and cons.
Aberdeen is probably the city I've seen with the least active RPG scene. It only has one FLGS (which is predominately a comic book store) now, and it's got a very limited (and slightly bizarre) selection of games. Don't bother trying to find the latest D&D book there, but if you want supplaments for mid-90s Star Trek TNG RPGs, they've got you covered.
I don't know any public groups there now. The other game store, Asylum, used to have RPG nights years ago, but it only sells Wargames now. It's also not very nice.
Glasgow has a pretty good RPG scene. It has a big active RPG, CCG and Wargaming society at the Glasgow University, called GUGS, and I'm pretty sure that the other two Universities have their own groups as well. There isn't much in the way of public gaming groups unfortunately. I still go through to Glasgow to play with some guys there.
The game shop, Static Games, is pretty good. They don't run D&D game days, but they do do a lot of other stuff. It has a pretty good selection, especially when it comes to D&D 3.5, Traveller and WoD. It also sells a wide selection of war gaming stuff, second hand RPGs and board games.
Edinburgh has one of the most open gaming scenes I've seen. There is a public gaming group know as ORC and a public Wargaming group. There are also a selection of Wargaming, RPG and CCG groups spread between the three Universities.
The FLGS is pretty nice. It has a good selection of Cthulhu, WoD and Warhammer RP stuff. The guy there is very friendly and it has a nice atmosphere, sort of like being welcomed into a friend's really nice game room. One of the things that I really like is that they have a good variety of Chessex dice and big jars of dice which you can dig through to find the ones you like. The only downside is that is is a bit more expensive then Static in Glasgow.
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Permalink Reply by Farsight Games on -
I'm in the Midlands of England and it went pretty dry for a while. I'm from Lichfield and I'm sandwiched between the only two gaming stores I'm aware of around here (or that are left) - Spirit Games in Burton-on-Trent and Waylands Forge in Birmingham. They're both about the same distance travel-time wise. Still, a lot of the games I buy I buy online for simplicity.
There are several game clubs dotted around but none in my immediate area, even though I know that there are at least two dozen gamers around me. I'm trying to consolidate them and start a local club called 'Lichfield's ORC' - Lichfield's Only Roleplaying Club. At the moment we have 6 members but we should be at a dozen by January when the club properly starts.
The majority of gamers I know are closer to my age, 38, so there's some experience floating about but not enough gaming groups. Hopefully LORC will change that and reinvigorate the local scene.
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