Foreign Settings

I assume there must be at least one or two clubs in every city then? Are the guys in these ok or is it pure autism because they get every single person they can to get more funds?

Jupp, jupp.

Dungeons & Dragons are not the "kleenex" roleplaying games like it's in the US. People play all different kind of roleplaying games ad it's been like that from the very beginning, great diversity in what people play as well as from local publishing.

In France we have a good roleplay community and some native publication.
But we have a tendancy to reinvent and try to do something different for the sake of being different.
But we also have very good things around narritivist systems. We have Le grumpf who's really good. He is great at doing usefull ressources for DM.

Way more than two per city. Basically whenever some group of people with some relevant hobby say "hey, we should make this a Sverok club and get more hobby money". Huge numbers of them are in the handful-to-couple-dozen members range.

Part of it is if you already have a group to do your stuff with, why seek out some other group instead of just starting your own? And then of course a lot of the clubs just don't share interests with each other. When I say any kind of gaming, I mean it. There are esports one, roleplaying ones, wargaming, card games, board games, LARP, airsoft, whatever else you might think of. In fact, it used to be limited to games, but these days they include stuff like speculative fiction in general, cosplay, karaoke... So yeah, there's a lot of clubs.

Oh, so its more of a culture club thing than a RPG thing then. Is there a lower limit to how many are needed for a club? I thought they would actually need to have a physical building to exist or something like that.

It used to be just gaming but eventually other cultural stuff was folded in as well, probably because of overlap and the appeal of getting access to all that structure, help, and funding.

You don't have to have a specific building or anything. Non-online clubs do need to specify what city they're mainly active in, though. Not seeing anything about a minimum number of members, besides that you have to have a board of at least three people. So I guess it's three people minimum. Then you also have to have proper yearly meetings and hand in protocols and stuff like that, obviously.

Addendum to No gambling about money, pay to win, or real economy games allowed.

>Sverok
Three or Five I don't quite remember.

We're currently about 50-100 in our club right now but that's mostly because of the e-sports push some are doing while the roleplayers and board gamers are about a quarter of that and most that show up for board gaming are not even memebers or to old to match the requirements for financial support (under 25).

Any way, yeah, it's a thing, just like the studdy circles that get similar support and so on.

Not gonna lie. My failed attempt at learning to read French was for the Talislanta books.

The most notorious game I can think of is pic related. It's low fantasy in the dark ages of Europe, based mostly in spanish and catholic mythology. It's quite interesting in it's themes, but mortality is far too high unless you keep your campaigns out of the fantasy realm, since most monsters can wipe out a party easily.

There's Anima, of course, but it's not really something that I'd associate with my country in any way.