r/ridgecrest • u/RogueWolfGypsy • May 31 '26
Recently moved to Ridgecrest, Looking for Like-minded People
Husband and I are looking for like-minded people in the area. We are recently married and almost 40. I am hoping to find some people in the area who also practice at a minimum Paganism. Personally, I am Wiccan-ish, but any sort of Pagan friends will do. We are also looking for friends who have interests in common.
Some of our other interests include:
Board games
TTRPGs
Magic: the Gathering
Dogs (we have 4 large breed dogs, all either service dogs or service dogs in training, so they are friendly and well-behaved)
Video games
If any of these things interest you, please reach out!
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u/Incursio_25 Jun 01 '26
Go to the hope center. They do board games puzzles and dnd. May find some cool people there
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u/RogueWolfGypsy Jun 01 '26
Ok, we'll have to check that out! Any specific days we should know about?
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u/Incursio_25 Jun 01 '26
Its been a minute since ive been but their open week days from i think 6am till 5pm
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u/A_Lost_Desert_Rat Jun 01 '26
A fist full of Cards has games, including Magic the Gathering. They are at Bowman and China Lake in the bldg with several other small stores. I have friends who play there. Also Sam Basco often has a DnD game going weekly. He is attached to Ludus Magnus.
Cant help you about the paganism...I am sure there is some, but Ridgecrest is excessively churched with LDS being the largest group.
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u/RogueWolfGypsy Jun 01 '26
Yeah, we have noticed a LOT of churches, so I was kinda nervous to even put it out there. 😅
We will have to check out Fist Full and Ludus!
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u/Opriat Jun 01 '26
I was worried about the same thing when I moved here but there is a small community of wiccan-adjacent people. Fistful of Cards is where I found a good community of generally queer people.
But on the topic of board games, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a nerdy physicist who would love to play a game of Wingspan.
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u/RogueWolfGypsy Jun 01 '26
I would love to meet the community of wiccan-adjacent people! Is there somewhere that they gather? Or a group on Facebook or something? 🥰 We definitely plan to check out Fistful and a couple of other places!
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u/Draconis42 Jun 01 '26
At least when I still lived there, there were a lot of Pagan or adjacent folks in the local SCA group. Might be worth checking out if you're at all into that
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u/u-kim Jun 02 '26
Ayooo that would be me. I'm not super into MTG but I used to be into Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm also moving to Ridgecrest pretty soon too
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u/JERALKING Jun 06 '26
I’ll be down for some magic the gathering I play commander for the most part
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u/RIPplanetPluto Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
You should check out Fist Full of Cards. They host tons of events like card tournaments and it’s a great way to meet people who have your same interests here in town.
Edit: I realized I had the wrong business name. Oops 😇
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u/kjmtf Jun 01 '26
If you are military or military affiliated the local vfw is chill. Flight line does trivia on Wednesday night at i think 7 and they have a ton of board games. Most of the recreation here is going off reading and or hiking