[Personally I thought White Wolf sucked everything fun out of my favorite legends and made this cumbersome and boring thing. For the people who like it, more power to them.]

Unfortunately, this DOES have a tendencay to happen in many WW games. They get entirely TOO detailed and the system bogs down in it's own numbers. A good ST can work around that by focusing on the story and not so much on the numbers and the die rolling... hence half ofthe equation that makes LARP popular (the other half being the social interaction)

[In my area, it seems like most WW gamers are already absorbed into various large groups, usually LARP oriented, but long established groups. New players usually wander in knowing someone else in the group. So they don't really have to look online. But my area could be unusual, so don't take that thought as gospel.]

Your area is NOT unusual in that respect. Role-playing in general, and D&D or White-Wolf in particular, are still "geek" hobbies. A large majority of people either don't understand the game, or fear it for various reasons (religious, social, or otherwise). In most areas poeple meet gamers or game groups through mutual friends who are already members, or they have mutual friends and decide to start a group. Gaming has been that way since the begining and unless it moves into the mainstream, is likely to remain that way. The other thing you can do is post an ad looking for players in your local game and hobby shop (most have a free or low cost bulletin board for just this purpose). Good luck!

D: Personally I thought White Wolf sucked everything fun out of my favorite legends and made this cumbersome and boring thing. For the people who like it, more power to them.

Oddly that's how I feel about D&D.... the system always catered to those who wanted to weigh down the game with superficial details.

Of course, the key is always a good ST. Bad storyteller=bad game. But even in D&D with a good GM, the game would slooow toooo aaaaa craaaaaaaaaaaawl while everyone looked up every goddam irrelevent detail under the mythical sun. Absolutely no room for creativity--pointless in my eyes.

The only WW games I've found around DFW are LARP, also. I did the VLARP (and crossovers) for many years. I'd like to just find a nice, mellow, mature, core-books-only group--buncha folks who just wanna explore character development and build a story together.

*sigh* I had a near-ideal gaming group, once upon a time, in Seattle.... miss those guys.

:)
Feiruz

We have a decent sized group here every few weekends. Unfortunatly I live a little far out in the country right at the moment and have 3 kids so it only happens as time allows. But like I saud we do have agood group (8-10 usualy).