Greetings & welcome to the domain of the Red River Valley Gaming Group! The RRVGG debuted in 1991 meaning that some of us have been gaming together, off and on, for nearly three decades. Our core group fractured in 2007 into three separate groups with some players bouncing between the three. One of those groups relocated to South Dakota, the other to Crookston Minnesota while the four most prolific players briefly relocated to Perley Minnesota and finally to Ada Minnesota. As anyone who has ever hosted a table-top role-playing game will know, often with a heavy heart, players come and players go. Life is full of new meetings and final farewells. This was never more true than when one of our long time players passed away, unexpectedly and without warning, in 2013. Since that time a second has moved into a retirement home and is no longer capable of playing his most beloved characters in his most beloved of worlds. In 2017 a new individual has since joined our cadre and has expressed an interest in playing RIFTS®. While we would prefer at least another one or two players we have sustained games with only three participants before. At all stages of its existence though the RRVGG has always been the same; Our trademark is role-play as opposed to roll play, deep character backgrounds, story line continuum and realism.

      As the logo above suggests the RRVGG specializes in RIFTS®, the popular role-playing game from Palladium Books®. We do not limit ourselves to gaming in this one setting. We have been known to play Beyond the Supernatural™, Ninjas & Superspies™ & Nightbane® - also from Palladium Books®. Additionally we have delved into Dungeons & Dragons 2nd & 3rd Editions, Werewolf, Vampire the Masquerade, Streetfighter & Shadowrun.

      From the Winter of 2005 to the Summer of 2007 the RRVGG was an official gaming club recognized in the region & given special privileges by Mark Erdmann of Hobby Hut in Moorhead MN. Our game club suffered it's own "crisis of treachery" that summer when a disenchanted player opted to go to Hobby Hut and badmouth the game club, the host location & our membership in general. All of this because he wanted to split our club into two separate clubs which had been proposed during a club meeting and was at the time unanimously declined. While there he removed our recruitment flier, our "Save Palladium Books" flier, our sample newsletter and proceeded to try to recruit members for a new game club which never took off. In the interests of family and associates the club president resigned and with no other parties interested in stepping up to the job the club was fractured into the three aforementioned groups that summer.

      "It's hard to stop Muggles from noticing us if we're keeping dragons in the back garden - anyway, you can't tame dragons, it's dangerous." - Ron Weasley