Connection Quests
Connection Quests give you a welcoming room to make friends, meet gaming groups, and practice conversation without having to figure out every first step alone.
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Adventures Are Better Together
Events, interactive workshops, and community experiences that help you build confidence, find gaming groups, and connect through the worlds you already love.
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Connection Quests give you a welcoming room to make friends, meet gaming groups, and practice conversation without having to figure out every first step alone.
Explore official eventsThe Quest Board is our community calendar for gaming events, D&D nights, board game socials, workshops, partner venue events, and convention happenings.
Browse the calendarCharacter Development is our coaching and workshop path for communication skills, social confidence, active listening, and real-world community building.
Build social armorCommon questions
A few plain-language answers for people searching for friends, gaming groups, and a less awkward way to meet new humans.
Start by putting yourself in rooms where shared interests do some of the opening work. The Critical Match hosts structured social events, gaming gatherings, and workshops that make it easier to meet people without having to improvise the whole conversation from scratch.
A Connection Quest is a Critical Match social event designed to help you make friends, meet gaming groups, and build community through guided conversation, shared interests, and opt-in matching.
The Quest Board is our community calendar for Critical Match events, partner venue events, workshops, game nights, conventions, and welcoming things to do wherever the community is gathering.
Yes. Our events and workshops are built to be welcoming, LGBTQIA+ friendly, introvert friendly, and supportive of people who are nervous about walking into a new room.
Community partners
Critical Match is built for hosts of fandom-forward experiences: board game restaurants, local game stores, TTRPG and TCG retailers, nonprofits, convention communities, trivia nights, and gathering places ready to grow nationally with the right programming.
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