So I've been playing TT RPGS for a decade more actually now. And
one of the things that I've noticed over the years is that it's really,
really hard to cultivate a consistent community, like getting a game running,
that's only four or five people.
But
getting a consistent and accessible series of games in place is really,
really tough for a lot of local game stores
because it, it really falls back on that consistency.
And so I started doing little pop up games
here and there uh doing team building events,
doing birthday parties because everybody wants to play a tabletop game,
but nobody knows where to start.
And
eventually I got a couple of regular running games
and those got big enough to the point where
we had to turn people away.
So rather than turning people away, I was like, well,
I'll just go mobile and come to you whenever you wanna play wherever you wanna play.
So it just kind of has been a natural progression of wanting to play
more and more and more and wanting more people to play with.
That's the idea. Um And not even just D and D we offer a few different systems as well.
But the idea is that
you can shoot us a message.
You can say, hey, I've never played before or I've been playing for 20 years.
Whatever your range of experiences, you can just say, I want to play
and then we do the rest. All you need is your imagination. That's it.
And then I've run games pretty much all over town.
A lot of churches, weirdly, a lot of churches wanna get into it.
Different businesses for team building events, birthday parties,
we bring tables.
So, and that's where the name comes from is like any table will do
and we just pop them up, sit down and start playing.
You're, you're
playing, make believe, you know,
it's what we all do as kids except with just a couple of rules to help us along the way
and getting to watch fully grown adults, you know, or I've run, you know,
some games for kids like birthday parties and things.
But usually it's when you get to see an
adult take the accountant hat or the lawyer hat off
and pick up a sword and shield in their
mind and they're slaying monsters and going on adventures.
You get to see somebody become a kid again. It's, it's
awesome.
Gaming can be, especially tabletop gaming can be extremely intimidating.
I have yet to actually find a table that
will shun you or will make fun of you because you don't know the
rules or will make fun of you because you don't have the coolest many,
like I've never encountered that.
It's always been very welcoming
and maybe that's because gaming
has been a safe place for a lot of communities
that have been othered over the last few decades.
But it's very rare.
I'm not saying it's not out there,
but it's very rare to find a table that won't welcome somebody new.
So it's just a very accepting atmosphere, I would say.
Do you have an imagination?
You know, can you imagine wielding a sword?
Do you enjoy reading comic books, watching movies, TV, shows, you know, if you have
any personality at all, you can fit right in at any gaming table.
It's such a critical part of our development playing
pretend and that's how kids learn to socialize and,
and become better versions of themselves is by
playing a game and seeing who plays fairly and who don't or who doesn't. And
if we don't have that day to day, that little bit of fantasy,
that little bit of pretend time,
then
everything else just kind of gets really black and white and really gray.
And that's where you get extra stressed out, you know, but when you can sit down and
maybe do a funny voice or not, do a funny voice and roll the die.
And this guy tells you that you just tackled a dragon off a building.
It makes the 9 to 5, not that bad.
You know,
I would say if you know nothing about tabletop gaming,
you should watch a show called Legends of Vox
Machina,
which is actually an animated version of ad and D campaign.
Start with that rabbit hole. If you like that show,
you'll love playing at a table like it just
is the best distilled version of that and then
just shoot him, shoot us a message.
If you don't want to play high fantasy dragon slang, you can hop on a spaceship.
You know, you can be a power ranger, you can be in a western.
That's the beautiful thing about tabletop games is that
it's all up here so we can build whatever
reality or fantasy we want to play it together.