Groups for Gamers

Club Zork

After that Grue has killed you for the hundredth time, or after your character has starved to death every time you tried to play Planetfall, come to Club Zork. They're "dedicated to helping hitchhikers stuck in interactive fiction games, such as those by INFOCOM."

h2g2 Fantasy Film League

This group of researchers plays together on fantasyfilmleague.com. Each player takes the role of a movie producer. Choose a director and six real actors to create your virtual movie. If the actors appear in real films during the game season, you score points. The player with the most money (points) at the end of the season wins.

h2g2 Game Addicts Support Group

This group caters to addicts of the specific word games found on h2g2 such as "Linkword" and "20 questions" and "Four word postings only" and many others. If you're a frequent browser of Ask h2g2, you may have noticed that the high activity on word games there tends to dominate the page at times, pushing regular conversations to the bottom or off the screen. By the power vested in CAC, our pal ~jwf~ urges word game addicts to please start new games on the Game Addicts Support Group, a more proper place for them.

h2g2 Internet Gaming Club

Still in development, this club seeks to help researchers find online gamers to play with or against. First Person Shooters, Real Time Simulations, Role Playing Games, Sports Games and even Board Games.

h2g2 RPG Club

A general group attempting to gather those interested in role-playing games, whether on PC or game consoles, live or with pen and paper and dice.

Mornington Crescent Appreciation Society

As far as I can tell, this society is just a parody of the way some games become so overdeveloped and refined, that people could sit around endlessly discussing which variation they ought to play, which variations were better, and how wonderful certain past games turned out, without ever actually getting to the game itself. But I could be wrong. I can't see why else there would be no explanation of the game on their page, no link to some other page explaining it, and even a rule stating, "You don't talk about Mornington Crescent. The rules are very complex and subject to addition at very little notice. If you try to give a quick run down, you're only going to confuse people." Membership and participation in the Society appears to be a game unto itself.