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New player looking to play

I'd love to get started but I'm having trouble finding a game to play. Most in LFG seem to be full or never respond to my messages. I don't have any real experience but I understand the basic concepts. I'm a mature and reliable person looking to have some fun. Let me know if you're interested in letting me jump into your game. I'm willing to learn any set of rules or play any genre just to get started out.
It always good to let people know when you can play and the time zones you are in. what are you looking for pathfinder, D&D or any other systems.
Q) having trouble finding a game to play. A) you have been a member for maybe one day. Keep trying for a month or two before you get discouraged. Q) Most in LFG seem to be full. A) games on LFG are automatically taken down when players needed (Players wanted - players in campaign) gets down to 0 or below.
I'm currently in MST and I can play most reliably after 9PM on any night. Otherwise my work might get in the way depending on the week. I know the most about GURPS from watching a campaign however I'm truly open to anything. My biggest subject matter interests are zombies, Star Wars, and the medieval era if that helps. Thank you for the advice, g-lich.
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Not to be argumentative John but this isn't the first place I've looked for games where the general curve seems about the same. As for my difficulty in even finding open games here I could easily cite numerous issues I've had but here's just one example: This shows the only three search results for a GURPS game in the LFG tool. The first one clearly shows no open slots are available, the second is more than 2 months out and only has the GM as a member, the third is not a game at all but in fact a social group for female players. Again I'm not trying to be argumentative but simply posting my concerns in hope of an upcoming space that might need filling or some advice in finding reliable and enjoyable groups.
keep strong sam, keep strong
It appears I was mistaken about that feature of Roll20's LFG listing system. I am sorry. My advice is expect a less than 2% success rate, just like cold call telemarketing sales figures.
Sam A., first off, welcome to roll 20. finding a stable game that will last beyond the first session is a little bit difficult, because of the nature of the player base and GM base. In my experience the GM isn't serious or the players are not serious, many times. Or someone is bored and jumps in and says let's play, but it just falls through. But when you can find a serious game, and players and GM commit to it, it works well. I didn't jump in here to be rude but your time just doesn't match mine, which is 4P-8P EST, for the hard SF RPG Traveller. So I'm posting here to show you that GM is with running games do see you, you're not being ignored. If you're really desperate to play push for Pathfinder or D&D 3.5. You can throw a stick and hit six of those on any given night. That is not a statement to malign those games, just that it seems to be fully 85% or more of what people are running or playing or seeking. I came to this site in early September 2013. I try to join the only Traveller game here. The GM said in about a day, "Sorry We're full." the next week I posted an ad for my traveler campaign. a few weeks later people started joining. Now I have two campaigns and almost full. so my experience is if you really want to have a game you got to push it, prepare for it, make an ad, commit to it, recruit players, follow-up on that recruitment, run the game. If you're looking to just play, message a specific GM like it is a job application with "what you will bring to their campaign." Ppeople that private message me with "Hey can I join?" and nothing else get lost in the pile of someone who says: - I've played Traveller - I like Traveller - I've always wanted to play Traveller - I love science fiction, and heard Traveller was cool can I join to try it for a session? - I'm looking for the books, man I can't wait. - With a character on .pdf, here's a character. I'd like to work with you to make it fit into your game. ALL the people now playing sent me something like that, and stuck with it. Variations on those themes of messages are put at the top of the pile of Applicants. If it so happens that the game is filled with people that are proactive and show enthusiasm, Initiative and energy before people that say only "Hi." or "Hey I'm a cool guy, can I join?" so be it; The game closes before I get to the "Hey can I join?" People. I've ran groups on and off line for 36 years, and it's always been that way. I don't want to have a player that doesn't put forth some effort because I put lots and lots in. If your times matched, I'd see what kind of concepts you might want to go with. But there are other groups that you might find. My games have players in US, UK and AUS, so that's why my times are weird. I put out the ads, and we matched up what times worked for the most people who wanted to put inthe most effort or just closely matched time. Sadly other players, One from Japan, had a time that didn't closely match, though they really wanted it to work out. Not their fault, It just wasn't going to work. Good luck in finding a game that meets your needs. Seriously. It can happen. There are players who would be more than happy to get into a stable RPG of most any genre because they live in remote areas, or far off countries and they can't make it to a face to face game. Sam A. See you on the forums. Maybe post on some of the threads, people get to know you, it is a community like any other community. Welcome.