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People really desperately need table top rpgs! If they introduce some pathfinder or Warhammer in there oh man the fun these members can have. But then it is an
by Justsignedup 4y ago
People really desperately need table top rpgs! If they introduce some pathfinder or Warhammer in there oh man the fun these members can have. But then it is an _expense_ not a _income_.
- oogali 4y agoLike this? I guess it depends on the base and someone stepping up to organize the game. https://jblm.armymwr.com/calendar/event/75270 https://jblm.armymwr.com/calendar/event/75270 https://www.jbmdl.jb.mil/Quick-Links/Get-Connected-Clubs/ https://www.jbmdl.jb.mil/Quick-Links/Get-Connected-Clubs/
- orwin 4y agoIn my country, barracks have "open days" (basically a weekend, once a year i think) where they would present all their clubs and invite external personnel to check out and participate (long-term, not only on those two days). I wanted to try fencing, so i went, and i finished joining the tabletop club (and fencing too). This is what brought me back to tabletops. Then covid, moved to a city without any barracks close by, so i couldn't continue, but military definitely have tabletop rpgs (and they are very partial with those where battlemaps are easy to set up)
- CoastalCoder 4y agoThat sounds awesome! Which country?
- orwin 4y agoFrance. The city i was is was Rennes (There is 4 barracks there), but i'm pretty sure the same thing exist in Paris (CESNAD? Not certain).
- runjake 4y agoThese games, along with D&D, were alive and well when I was in the military.
- LegitShady 4y agoor you can get them into 40k and take the rest of their money
- pmarreck 4y agothis man Warhammers
- nacho_weekend 4y agoAnecdotally, my brother in the Air Force had a pretty regular and frequent D&D group in the past 3 years. But I don’t know how widespread that is.
- JamesSwift 4y agoVery common in all branches, it just differs based on what the job is. Mechanics? Probably less likely. Intel? Way more likely.
- Wohlf 4y agoCan confirm it was fairly common in the Marine Corps, even some of the grunts and motor transport guys would get interested on ship duty. When you're bored as hell you'll take anything you can get.
- wyldberry 4y agoBoredom and creativity go hand in hand. Not necessarily good creativity. On my first deployment i chugged a bottle of syrup for $50 bucks and gave the corpsman heart attacks. It is not fun throwing up syrup for an hour after.
- poulsbohemian 4y ago>Mechanics? Probably less likely. Coincidentally, my partner's father was an airplane mechanic stationed in Okinawa in the 1980s... and apparently played a lot of D&D.
- reef84_ 4y agoCheaper to go to slot machines!
- isk517 4y agoAccording to my buddy the Canadian Navy is absolutely crawling with Warhammer players, apparently being a player has been pretty good for their career.
- yamtaddle 4y agoYikes, probably cheaper just to bribe superior officers for promotions :-)
- red-iron-pine 4y agoI've been to Diego Garcia. It is boring as hell; about all there is to say. We got in trouble for trying to organize an expedition to secretly catch and eat some of the coconut crabs (which is verboten). Also played D&D in the service. Most active tabletop gaming group I've ever been in too. Didn't D&D in DG tho.
- rkuykendall-com 4y agoThere's no way organizing a secret group to capture and eat some sacred monsters doesn't count as D&D.
- poulsbohemian 4y ago> secretly catch and eat some of the coconut crabs (which is verboten). Was this out of environmental concerns / the crabs going extinct or was there something more to it?
- hangonhn 4y agoDidn't the Prussian general staff basically invent the idea of table top gaming/simulations?
- radicalbyte 4y agoThe Chinese were doing it >2000 years ago - I expect that such games were a common tool.