Gauntlet Hangouts – New Meetup Group

Gauntlet Hangouts – New Meetup Group

As you may know, the Events functionality has been very unreliable since Google started fiddling with G+. It is now difficult to receive notifications when new Events go up, and the simple act of finding an Event has turned into a frustrating chore. Even back when the Events functionality worked, it was missing a number of key features, such as RSVP limits and waitlists, which made it a mediocre tool at best.  

We currently pay for three Meetup sites, but we only use one, FtF Houston. Given that, we’re going to move Gauntlet Hangouts to Meetup. We’re still going to run the sessions with some combination of Hangouts, Drive, and Roll20, but the games will be organized on Meetup. The Gauntlet Hangouts G+ Community will be going away. 

Before we can fully make the switch, though, we need everyone to join the new Meetup group. To encourage you, I will begin listing my new games there immediately, starting with Session 2 of Red & Pleasant Dreams, Session 2 of Vault of the Purple Mane, and Session 2 of the new series of Monster of the Week. Dan will also be putting February’s Story Game Sunday events up on Meetup. If you want to be notified when these events go up, you need to join the Meetup right away.

Other game organizers (OSR Tuesday, Gauntlet UK, Gauntlet City Limits, Friday Night Drive-in) can move their games over to Meetup as they wish, but must be completely transitioned for their March events. Richard Rogers Eadwin Tomlinson Robert Ruthven Doyle Tavener Russell Benner: we will make you guys Event Organizers when you join so you can start putting your events there. Please wait until I have my events up so you can mimic my format. 

Everyone else: don’t wait! Follow the link…to the future!

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/