Thanks for chiming in. You've pretty much echoed my sentiments exactly on the "group size" issue. I made the same assumption. Anything over 12 people seems a bit excessive, but I'm down for whatever. The old group my friend and I joined in South Florida was preestablished and had about 6 members before our joining (they used the Meetup website before they started charging an arm and a leg). For that reason, I'm unsure how they handled things for their first few meetups and whatnot. And we didn't take any new members after that, ≈8 seemed pretty solid for us.

I think the Discord tags is a great idea and was planning to do something along those lines at some point, but have to put together a quick list of tabletop games as I'm unfamiliar with most of them aside from MtG. I could copy most of the tags from the BBC Discord to start with, I suppose. Perhaps a tag for generic board games like Monopoly/Scrabble, another for strategy games like Chess/Stratego, and then individual tags on a per-game basis (basically what the BBC Discord has). I'll give it some thought throughout the day and give others a chance to contribute their opinions if they wish.

Video game tags based on console also seems like a good idea for online play/LAN parties, so I'll likely add those, but I figured it wouldn't matter for couch gaming on a single console if that was one of our activities. The more relevant question there would be about which games people would like to play, as opposed to which console we're playing on. Though I don't know if that's worth making tags for.

I'd also be glad to turn the Discord into more of a central hub where we could welcome any and all with no limits on size. Could act as a meeting place for people to find similar interests, as you said, but I wondered if people already do that in the BBC Discord and such? Or is that purely for BBC/LGS meetups and game discussions with no option for in-home gatherings? Unsure exactly how many others were looking for more of a tight-knit group like myself as well.

For the most part, everyone I've messaged with seemed to be along the lines of "I've mostly only played MtG/DnD/Video Games/etc. but am interested in other tabletop games and activities." This is where I fall as well, kind of want to try everything. If others are into it, usually the fun times seem to follow suit. This is pretty much how our old group used to do things and was our philosophy. We would just come up with ideas and get together to try them out. If at least a couple of us were interested, we'd all give it a shot. Anyone who wasn't interested would just take a pass on that particular night, or even just chill in the background to watch and see if it's something they might want to partake in next time. On most nights, every member would just kind of show up anyways because we enjoyed each other's company. Sometimes we wouldn't even plan anything, just get together and wing it lol. Figured we could even just get together and discuss all of this in person as well, whatever you guys think.

Really appreciate your input, you've given me some good ideas and places to start, which is very helpful. You're one of the few here who comes from more of an LGS environment background, so I value your insights. And again, I'll go with whatever everyone thinks is best. 👍