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OBLIGATORY PLUG: This community has it's own LFG section. Nobody's posted any game ads there yet, but it's very new. If you're looking to start up or join a game yourself, I might recommend starting there. And while you're there please consider clicking "subscribe" because new folks checking it out are more likely to post games there if they see a bigger number in the sidebar.
I haven't played an in person game of D&D in over fifteen years. The last time I played any sort of TTRPG in person with people gathered around a table was a Werewolf: Dark Ages one shot at a Fourth of July party in (I think) 2010. I had signed up on an interest sheet left at my LGS where I played MTG weekly for a game someone was looking to start up, but this was in March of 2020 and our scheduled first meeting and Session 0 was set for two days after the COVID lockdowns went into effect, closing the LGS and pre-emptively ending that game.
I do play D&D online via VTTs (mostly Roll20 but I've also used Foundry) and have done so regularly for several years now. I found my longest running game, which has been going for about two years now, on a D&D centered Discord server with a LFG channel. Lots of such servers exist and I recommend checking some out (just do a search for "Discord dungeons and dragons" (or a different game if that's what you're looking for). The other long running game I'm in actually spun off of that first one and includes mostly the same people just playing a different campaign on a different day. I also joined a third game that I found on r/lfg but I'm avoiding that right now because of the API bullshit. Did I mention this community has it's own LFG section that works pretty much just like r/lfg but with 100% less u/spez related bullshit? I have also in the past found games, mostly for one shots, on the D&D Beyond and Roll20 forums, both of which have LFG sections that are fairly high traffic.
Thanks for the response! As a follow up, do you mostly stick with dnd or do you sometimes branch out to other systems?
I just play D&D mostly because it's popular, I know it, and I like the way the mechanics work. That being said I'm not strictly opposed to other systems (though I'm not really interested in PF2E as I've looked at it and think it's mostly just a clunkier and jankier modification to the core mechanics of 5e that many people no doubt think is better just because it's needlessly complex for the sake of "more options"). A while ago I bought a hardcopy of the core VtM v5 book and want to, at some point, try joining a game for that to explore the significantly different playing style it's designed for.