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Ask Your Existing Friends Before you turn to the internet to find a new group to play with, you should talk to your existing friends (especially if they’re into nerdier things), and see if they might be interested in starting up a game. Like you, they may have been window shopping the world of tabletop RPGs without you even knowing it. Playing with people you already know will take a lot of the stress out since you won’t have to worry about embarrassing yourself in front of people you just met....

1. Use Meetup Meetup is not some cheesy matchmaking site—it’s more like a dating site for people looking for new friends. When you sign up, you’ll get asked questions about why you want to join Meetup, and what kinds of interests you have. If you don’t see your interest on the list, make sure to type it in manually! Once you go through these steps, you’ll get to see all the nerdy events that Meetup groups are hosting in your area....

8. Reddit If you use Reddit, you might as well subscribe to the different video game deals tracking subreddits. They pretty much do the same thing as these sites—you’ll even see them linked quite often—so you can rely on Reddit as your one-stop shop. We recommend these subreddits for game deals: Related:The Best Subreddits for Geeks: Useful Geeky Communities for All 7.PSPrices Despite the name, PSPrices doesn’t just track PlayStation game deals; it also has deals tracking for Xbox and Nintendo Switch....

5.r/freegames You might have noticed that a few of the sites mentioned above require a bit of attention—you need to keep an eye out for when a game is available for free so you can pounce. Don’t have time for that? You can look to Reddit, where users have crowdsourced the whole “keep an eye out for deals” nonsense. The r/freegames subreddit is dedicated to… well, free games. This includes console games as well as PC games....

Why Esports? If you already follow a few streamers on Twitch, then you probably don’t need convincing as to why you’d watch esports. That said, if you mainly follow streamers who stream a variety of games or spend most of their time interacting with the viewership, it can’t hurt to examine the appeal of esports. Basically, watching someone be really good at a video game is the same thing as watching them be good at anything else that’s interesting....