For many years now, Russ and Craig have had many wide-ranging conversations with folks from all over the gaming world.

This is one of those conversations.

D6G, the last chapter.

Welcome back to Duncan Donuts.

We're here with Luke Ritalek from Worlds End Radio.

How you doing, Luke?

I am awesome. What can I get you for a donut? What can I get you?

Ooh, now that you mention it, why don't you hit me up with a Boston cream, a chocolate chunk, and I'll have a vanilla bean colata as well.

There's a man who knows his Dunkin' Donuts menu. There you go. All right. Well, get right on that. So, Craig, how are you doing tonight? I'm good. I actually snuck in a frappuccino. Oh, nice. Yeah. Don't let the man behind the counter. You put it in this warm cup and it'll look like a Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. That's not a deal. So Luke was kind enough to come on and join us today and it has had this idea. Why don't we talk about, we've never done a lost chapter really on building your gaming community. And I thought it's a great topic because, Craig and I've had some experience doing this. And of course, Luke has tons of experience doing this.

Um, and we get this,

this email quite a bit,

actually, you know,

how do you start a gaming group? How do you get your, how do you get to the point we have this regular group of people that you can play with every one night a week or one night a month or how often you do it and get it started? Um, And I guess maybe the place to begin to discussion here is why, why bother building a community?

Why not just, you know, keep playing with your you know with your with your friends in your

basement or in your kitchen table what's the point of building a community look well I was

just about to say because playing with yourself is no fun but then I caught myself and then you

didn't anyway.

Playing games on your own is probably what I meant.

Right.

It's no fun at all.

So you really do need to have a regular stream of people that you can have as opponents and

interact with and have that kind of social engagement thing happening with. And the bigger the better, you want to have a lot of people who you can do that with because, you know, a community that is growing and, you know, constantly thriving and changing and new blood coming in all the time really makes games exciting. And I think it could make the difference between, particularly on an international scale, the war games or board games that do very, very well and the ones that maybe don't do so well.

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