Best place to find Tabletop RPG groups?

[Neo Typhoon Alpha]

Title. Just realized how many locked rooms there are in this game. So, I'm curious if there's a good place to find other RPGers to meetup. I want to learn how to play D&D and Shadowrun and eventually learn how to become a Dungeon Master. :)

[Marquise*]

I still myself search for a good Shadowrun game master. ^^

[SaltyO]

It's super nutty how nobody searches forums. Is it a cultural thing? Am I just getting old? Here are some resources I hope will help you find players/GMs, they are the start of a growing list of highly active, large groups, and I hope to find more. (if you have a suggestion to add, I'm all ears)

In generaly tabletop RPGs aren't really "pickup games." You gotta find a group, find people you enjoy playing with, and so on. Fortunately, there's tons of places to find that.

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This is not meant to be an exhaustive reference by any means, just a starting point for new users asking about RPGs on Tabletop Simulator. Often times games needing players can be found simply by searching for them in groups with the right keywords (board game, tabletop, etc.)

This is kind of the “main hub” of TTS in terms of Steam groups. (Steam groups can be accessed by clicking on your profile name in the Steam client)

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/TabletopSimulatorClub Many thousands of users, wide range of topics.

One of many TTS Rpg Groups, this one hosted by the moderator, pigneedle: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ttsrpgg or just search Steam groups for "ttsrpgg", includes but not limited to D&D. Marquise This might be a place you could snag a game of Shadowrun.

The Tabletop Simulator Steam forums have a ‘’Looking for Players'' subforum. Games and Steam groups of a rarer variety or specific variants of RPGs you like can sometimes be found there.

(Click on the game in your library, then Discussions, and it will be on the list of subforums on the right)

https://discord.gg/ur3qZzd This discord group has 2000+ online D&D players, many of them on TTS. It's very active.


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