How should I go about finding players for a Skype game?

[Captain Karzak]

Hello, for the past few days I've been scouring the net for players, with minimal success, to join a campaign that I wish to run via Skype. I was wondering if you guys could give me some pointers on how to better find Skype gamers. [Also, while I've Skyped into games, I've never run one over Skype - so if you have any advice on that account, please feel free to mention it].

Generally I've been posting my campaign pitch to the play-by-post sub-boards of whatever forum I'm advertising on. The thing is, I'm not sure that's the right audience.

I enjoy Skyping into games, but I find the very idea of play-by-post to be baffling, and I would never really think to look for a game that occurs in real-time in play-by-post section of a website. Conversely, play-by-post gamers usually have a busy schedule, and are looking for games where they can hop in whenever they have a small chunk of time available - which is totally different from the logistics of a Skype game. Still, PbP is usually the only part of a website dedicated to finding and recruiting gamers, right?

Anyway I feel that I need to augment my recruiting efforts by going to some real-life RPG meetup groups in my area. There's a meeting tonight and a bigger one on Saturday. Do you have any advice on how to pitch the campaign that would be different from how I'm pitching it in writing?

http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=13099.new#new

Thanks for your help! You don't have to address all my questions, if you have anything to say about anything I've asked, please leave a response.

[kitep]

You say you've skyped into games - how did you find out about those games?

[CaptRory]

You know I was looking at that! But I don't know the core game and with all the house rules I can't just go read up on it. =-/

[Captain Karzak]

lol. It was an old group that I used to game with in person. They were terribad at scheduling and starting on time. It was just easier for me to Skype into the session, and then go do something else if the GM was hour late. Plus no time wasted driving! And that group had members who lived across the country, so they were already running Skype even before I decided not to attend in person.

[Captain Karzak]

You know I was looking at that! But I don't know the core game and with all the house rules I can't just go read up on it. =-/

I can teach it to you. Many of my house rules make it easier to build a viable character. As a GM I need to be able to easily and rapidly construct NPCS's that don't suck. It is a very simple system. I have told other potential players if it turns out they hate some of my house rules, I'll try to make some accommodation. But mostly I've tried to make bad options much less bad, and ridiculously broken options much less broken. A lot of the changes affect force users - how easy it is to fall to the dark side, and what happens when you do.

I'd guess that the house rules for non-force users are about 4 pages in word, organized with big text headers between every bullet point. It's not very space efficient. Force users are admittedly more complicated and also have to deal with the other 4 pages of house rules. I don't know what constitutes "a lot of house rules". Most of the GM's I've met have like maybe 3 or 4 declared house rules, and then like dozens or hundreds of undocumented systematic deviations from the official rules that they don't know about, or don't bother to mention. I'm just trying to be upfront and explicit with my rule changes.

[Unbeliever]

Real quick before I turn in.  I like roll20.net for internet gaming, even though I'm a newb at it.  It also seems to have a lively interest in Saga. 

[kitep]

I'll second roll20.net, not because I've ever used it, but because I just read this thread http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=12267.msg201429#new

You could also google "star wars saga skype" and see what comes up.  If people have posted there before, that's probably where people go to find games.

Good luck!