RTR member Spencer has worked with Lance at the Gamers Geekery & Tavern in Cary to bring back RTR’s beloved Casual Meets. Currently, the plan is to host one every 1st and 3rd week each month!

General Overview

RTR Casual Meets have a long and storied history as places where Triangle-area gamers can gather for casual conversation and fellowship. They’re a great place to both catch up with old friends and reminisce about great games that came before and to meet new and interesting people and even find players/GMs for future games!

In the future, we might occasionally offer an optional RPG-related workshop or roundtable, and it’s totally alright to bring a short boardgame or card game you’d like to play, but the Casual Meet is primarily intended as an unstructured social gathering.

Feel free to bring a friend, but please try to add a +1 to your RSVP here on Meetup if you do so; we try to provide the host with as accurate a number as we can ahead of time.

Event Fee

An event fee of $2.50 is charged to attendees by Gamers Geekery & Tavern. Currently, this fee is waived on Tuesdays through the summer (So, not applicable to this event). If this is a barrier of entry for you, please contact Spencer through Meetups, or on Discord @Spoons#1000. Spencer has agreed to handle the fee for individuals needing such accommodations.

Safety and Expectations

As a general rule, always respect the rules and requirements of our host establishment, as RTR is a guest in their business!

Current RTR policy is that all members attending in-person events need to show physical or digital proof of vaccination in order to participate. The Event Host or any member of the Organizer team can check this for you.

Currently, GG&T doesn’t have a requirement for masking, but they do follow all state mandates, so please be aware of those before any events held here.

We ask that our members be considerate and stay home if they are feeling ill or have other illness concerns; there’s always next time. If you have allergies, please consider wearing a mask; you may not be sick, but a sneeze is a sneeze! The Event Host will generally try to have a box of disposable masks available as a second resort.

If you find out after attending any in-person RTR event that you’ve suffered a Covid exposure, or test positive, please inform the Organizers ASAP, so that they can disseminate the potential risk information to others so they can test at their own discretion. If you knowingly bring an illness to an RTR event, you will not be welcome at future gatherings.

Feedback and Future Events

Spencer will be collecting feedback after the Casual Meet, and your thoughtful response is greatly appreciated. We’d like to see more events like this in the future, but want to be inclusive of as many people’s time, availability, and interests as we can. We might alternate days future events are held, try out different venues, and even play with the format of the event itself.