Hey there,
I've come to realize that I live in the wrong section of the nation in order to find Star Trek fans. I'm wondering - where in the nation do you practice your geekery?
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Hey there,
I've come to realize that I live in the wrong section of the nation in order to find Star Trek fans. I'm wondering - where in the nation do you practice your geekery?
Not much of a trek fan; a gaming geek, sure. Albuquerque, NM, USA
Well here in tha Capital district of NY there is a small share of trekkies where I live but not a lot of rpgers. So talking about the show is ok but finding ones to play is another problem.
Now when I lived in Middletown NJ there were trekkies and gamers hiding all over the place, but that was some 14 years ago.
You need to go a lot further west to practice your geekery.
Like me, about 25-30 miles west of you. :D
Jeez, Dan, I had no idea. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Dan Stack
You need to go a lot further west to practice your geekery.
Like me, about 25-30 miles west of you. :D
Is there a local website or email list that I could subscribe to get in contact with the rest of the Star Trek community in the area?
Actually to be honest, I've no idea about an offiial "fan community" - I know we've got the Arisia Convention in the Boston area every January. And the New England Science Fiction Writer's Association meets in Boston every February with Boskone. But as for a Trek presence, I can't think of much - I'm betting the folks at Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge would be the best bet for knowing about the various fan communities in the area.
As for me, I'm lucky to have a gaming group of Trekkies. Though we're still in Trek burnout mode right now. :D
See, being a card gamer first, I would never think to check out Pandemonium. Stores I frequent: Your Move Games in Somerville (and Providence), Gameboro in Worcester (excellent book selection - it's where I found a copy of the Starfleet Operations Manual) and TJs Collectibles in Milford.
Wow, this post came out sounding like a plug, but it really isn't. :D
Bloomington, Indiana - in the scenic heart of Limestone Country!
Plenty of gamers, even lots of high-quality gamers, and plenty of folks to talk waith about ST ad nauseum. Not entirely opposed to a ST game if properly motivated. My group took little if any convincing. I know, I'm lucky. I love this town. You should all move here - unless you have bad allergies or like mountains or oceans or big cities or are terribly conservative. :)
Here in San Diego we have geeks aplenty.3 game shops have game rooms that allow RPG and miniatures play,2 of the 3 Wizards stores have card game rooms.Then there's the small shops (3 that i know of) that also have card games.
The other geekery:the San Diego Comic Con used to be the biggest comic con in the world,but I think the one in Chicago now beats us out.Starfleet has 2 ships/chapters here.Tons of comic shops and 2 animie stores that I know of.
My Trek game has 5 players and is the only one being run at a game store(will probably move to my house though)Game Towne. The books sell well here so I'm assuming ther's other ST games in Americas Finest City.I'm thinking abut posting on the Starfleet BBS to dig up a couple more players.
And home to one of the best pubs in the country -- the Irish Lion. Also has one of the few Tibetan restaurants in the country (or did last time I was there.)Quote:
Originally posted by Kirok
Bloomington, Indiana - in the scenic heart of Limestone Country!
Slainte! :)Quote:
Originally posted by qerlin
And home to one of the best pubs in the country -- the Irish Lion. Also has one of the few Tibetan restaurants in the country (or did last time I was there.)
Man, I used to go there all the time - I lived a couple blocks away. Knew the bartenders and and wait staff. Not so much anymore. Still the best place for a hearty meal and ale, though!
Oh, and we have TWO Tibetan restaurants. And a Tibetan monastery. :)
Thanks, qerlin, you've reminded me of more reasons why I love htis town!
When were you here and why, if I may ask?
I'm from Michigan. There are three Star Trek fans here. That's all.
mactavish out.
Let me preface this by saying I love Arkansas. However, not many Trek fans here. Not many gamers. I had a good group of gamers for awhile (I always end up being GM). They enjoyed Shadowrun quite a bit, and then Werewolf. However, the mere mention of Trek caused lots of cringing. However, after picking up the LUG books, I just had to play. Fortunately, my wife is as big a Trek fan as me. So, we have some fun solo games. She plays a Starfleet Intelligence officer, which lends itself well to solo games.
My problem is finding Trek fans that want to play an RPG game, or finding RPG fans that want to play a Trek game. Definitely a rare breed here in the Natural State.
I live near San Francisco.
I believe some people here actually think that Starfleet is already running things :rolleyes:
Anyway, I have gamers 'n' geeks o' plenty out here, even though my current crop of rpg-ers refuse to play Trek.
I'll change 'em yet! ;)
LOL....Hey, mactavish...
There were four trek fans in Michigan, until I moved back to West Virginia. :D
As far as finding gaming communities or the like in Charleston, WV....well, it seems to have switched a lot to CCG gaming. (I still prefer good ol' fashioned paper and pencil and dice gaming.)
There used to be a couple of gaming shops in Charleston, WV, but now, they've gone....only places to get any RPG materials are the Waldenbook and Barnes and Knoble stores. And then...at that, I have yet to see any Decipher based Star Trek materials. Good thing I still have some LUG stuff.
Peace,
General Chang
Actually,
If you want to try and find some internet RP gamers, goto the chatrooms in Startrek.com. I guarantee you will find chatters popping up asking if anyone wants to join their PbEM or chat sims.
The dead giveaway is that most of these seekers' names start with either Captain or Admiral. :D
Denver, Colorado!
On a rock in the middle of an ocean. Last time I checked, it is still part of the United States. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Uruz
I'm wondering - where in the nation do you practice your geekery?
Lots of Trek geeks out here in the 'burbs of the nation's capital. :)
I practise my geekery one nation to the north, in Toronto specifically.
I'm not playing Star Trek right now, though, just D&D.
Cheers,
Steve
Monterey Bay area of California. However, I am not a Californian. Do not confuse me with the fruits and nuts who actually claim California as their home. I just live here.
I'm a Missourian...specifically a Kansas Citian. ;) And, no, Kansas City is not in Kansas (although there is a Kansas City, KS....which is a suburb of the real Kansas City). You gotta love a city that has two states named after it. :D (y'know...Kansas and "our Kansas" [Arkansas])
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
cold as space during the winter and hot as hell during the summer
LOL...Snake
And always remember:
In Space, no one can hear you freeze. (Something like that.)
Peace,
General Chang
grr... :)Quote:
Originally posted by Sea Tyger
Monterey Bay area of California. However, I am not a Californian. Do not confuse me with the fruits and nuts who actually claim California as their home. I just live here.
For those of you having difficulty finding other Star Trek Fans in your area, I suggest two resources:
1)Fandom Directory: Published by Fandata Publications since 1979, this is like a phone book of fans, clubs, and zines sorted by name and location.
The separate on-line edition of the Fandom Directory can be found at:
http://www.fandata.com/
2) STARFLEET, The International Star Trek Fan Association. This "by-fans-for-fans" organization has been at the forefront of Star Trek fandom since its inception in 1974. (I've been a member since 1987.) Get information, PDF newsletters, and sign-up on-line at
http://www.sfi.org/
Hah! You should have asked this question before I went to Survival Training and learned how to resist interrogation! You'll never get any information out of me, except name, rank, service number, and date of birth. Torture me until I'm nothing but a rag doll; I won't talk!
(Please do not look at the info on the left side of the screen.)
Beat me until your knuckles bleed! I'm not telling you anything!
near dayton, ohio.
The Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, Arizona.
On Long Island, New York
You should all come an live in England.
Or not.
Roleplayers in general are a dying breed here. I live in England's second city and you'd expect it to be easy to find some shop that sells roleplay games. Once was a time the all the large bookstores did.
I have managed to find two small independent shops that have a limited line in roleplay games here but even their owners admit that if trade doesn't pick up soon they'd have to throw in the towel and go to just selling minatures and CCGs.
As for roleplay groups? I did find one. But all they played was Magic: The Gathering CCG or D&D. Neither of which have much appeal to me (no sorry, let me rephrase that. they have NO appeal).
I personally blame the rise of those god awful CCGs (or trumps as my group call them) and Games Workshop's push for table top battles for the decline in roleplaying in England.
But thats another thread which I might start (at the risk of being banned).
I'm off now to Cornwall to await my smuggler friend who says he can drop off a shipment of the Aliens sourcebooks in the dead of night no questions asked.
:)
Well here in France (I know the question was about the USA but I couldn't resist the opportunity to increase my post count ;)), Star Trek being widely known as "the stupid american series with the pointy eared guy only a geek will watch", the Trekkies population is not what you'd call big to begin with.
However, in Paris at least, the RPGamers population is rather active (there are at least four or five very good Gaming Stores), and apparently, judging by the short time the new Decipher supplements stay on the shelves, some of them are also Trekkies. And a lot of people don't know Star Trek just because they simply never saw it apart from TOS, which was aired in an awful translation just a few years after Star Wars came out, so it is still possible to convert some of them by showing the right episodes or movies :p
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?Quote:
Originally posted by C5
Star Trek being widely known as "the stupid american series with the pointy eared guy only a geek will watch",
:) :) :)
Do I sense sarcasm here ? ;)Quote:
Originally posted by JonA
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?
:) :) :)
Usually, French TV series are dull policier series (lots and lots of them), or sit-coms plagiarized from their US counterparts. None of them go very far out of the country, thankfully.
Maybe the most known French series was Highlander : the series, a French-Canadian coproduction.
To my knowledge, anyway.
It looks like sarcasm, tastes like sarcasm ... ;)Quote:
Originally posted by JonA
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?
:) :) :)
Actually, I think at least one of Disney's movies was made by a French team of tooners-or-whatever-is-the-real-name-for-it. Does that count? I guess not, since you asked for televisual ... but it made it on DVD, so you can see it on TV :D ! Hah! ;)
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Lost in southern hell.. I mean Texas..
well at least you're not persecuted for being a gun owner.Quote:
Lost in southern hell.. I mean Texas..
And for France and ST, well I think that SW is really big in France and I think the view most Frenchmen have about ST comes from the SW/ST rivalery.
Nothing like a 37-year old male virgin with a Darth Vader T-shirt that's way too small for his belly , questionable peronal hygiene, and of course the ungodly acne face calling Star Trek "a show for geeks"
Man I love my job :D
Who cares about guns, I am a sword owner..
You have packs of Attention Defecit Disorder kids roaming the streets?! :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by Liz Not Beth
Quite a few ADD groups,
Never a dull moment, I'd wager. :D
With or without hyperactivity?
Yes, Highlander: The Series was produced by Gaumont Television.Quote:
Originally posted by C5
Maybe the most known French series was Highlander : the series, a French-Canadian coproduction. To my knowledge, anyway.
But, it was based on a film written by an American :D