TTRPGs at the Library

My local library has a TTRPG group (currently playing Pathfinder 2e). I sat in on a campaign today, the group was very welcoming, and I'm excited about it. I've wanted to get into D&D/TTRPGs for a while, but didn't have a group to do it with. While I hear Pathfinder is a bit more involved than some, I was able to get a copy of the rulebook to take home, and I'm invited to give it a go with making my own character and joining the party next weekend. It's especially nice because the library is right at the end of my street!

I enjoyed how it felt like manually stepping through a computer simulation — the whole time I was thinking of Ben Eater's videos about building a 6502 computer on a breadboard, in which he uses a pushbutton for a clock pulse at some points to manually step through things.

Lately I've been looking for 1) more things to do off the internet and 2) ways to make friends in my area. I made a lot of good friends in grad school, but now most of them have moved; the scarcity of academic jobs means a lot of moving around T-T. I've never been great at putting myself out there, so most of my friendships have developed from being in proximity to a lot of people, which doesn't work the same way out of school. This group seems lovely though, and I'm glad I pushed myself to give it a try.