


The company line is that they need to be Family friendly and they often have some indication on local clubs due to talking with regular customers of staffers being members themselves. Paige, if you're looking for any general pointers on local groups it might be worth asking in your local Warhammer ( GW) store if there is one close enough to you. I don't think there's a higher incidence of creepy people than there are in other activities, and because contact is fairly brief and structured, there's not really a space to wind up with horror stories like some D&D campaigns generate. That said, in my experience, there's at least some degree of enforcement of civility from people like games store staff, and it's not worse than anywhere else in the local area. If guys in your locality are generally pieces of animated bovine feces, that's who you'll be playing with. Respect of your fellow gamers you earn by not beeing a dill weed and respecting them, most in the hobby are laid back, atleast in my experience, but mileage might vary like i said and depends on the local community. The question is, which of those communities fit you, it's kinda like hikingshoes you pick the one that fits perfectly, especially if you intend to go hiking, else you get feet that look like RS first timers of urbanfolks that failed to use 2 pairs of socks. See, for every horror story on dakka you find 5 decent 3 good and one perfect community at the very least, else this hobby would've died out long ago. If not though do you guys have any advice for me? What should I expect and be aware of in general with 40k gaming groups and how can I best go about earning the respect of my fellow gamers and modellers? I really don’t want to be seen as “the girl” in the group and simply be treated like everyone else. I am kind of nervous though as whilst I’m sure it’s not as bad of an issue as say a decade ago is their still stigma to women playing 40k on her lonesome? I’m aware this hobby is more male orientated but I’m optimistic that regardless I will still be treated fairly and be welcomed into the group. Mistresspaige wrote: So I’m new to 40k and tabletop gaming in general but am a fast learner and have stared snooping around for local gaming groups where I can start playing.
