National demographic for Trek gamers

**T'lara** · 05-19-2003, 01:39 AM

Denver, Colorado!

**REG** · 05-19-2003, 01:56 AM

Originally posted by Uruz

I'm wondering - where in the nation do you practice your geekery?

On a rock in the middle of an ocean. Last time I checked, it is still part of the United States.

**Ineti** · 05-19-2003, 06:32 AM

Lots of Trek geeks out here in the 'burbs of the nation's capital.

**Liquidator Queeg** · 05-19-2003, 07:57 AM

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

**Sea Tyger** · 05-19-2003, 09:43 AM

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.

(y'know...Kansas and "our Kansas" [Arkansas])

**Snake_Plissken** · 05-19-2003, 10:33 AM

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

cold as space during the winter and hot as hell during the summer

**General Chang** · 05-19-2003, 11:08 AM

LOL...Snake

And always remember:

In Space, no one can hear you freeze. (Something like that.)

Peace,
General Chang

**Cochrane** · 05-19-2003, 02:02 PM

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.

grr...

**Ezri's Toy** · 05-19-2003, 04:43 PM

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/

**Sarge** · 05-19-2003, 04:44 PM

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!

**USS Kochanski** · 05-19-2003, 05:33 PM

near dayton, ohio.

**The Transformed Man** · 05-19-2003, 06:59 PM

The Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, Arizona.

**Karg** · 05-19-2003, 08:58 PM

On Long Island, New York

**JonA** · 05-20-2003, 12:56 AM

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.

C5 · 05-20-2003, 01:51 AM

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

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