Under Maintenance

Due to family health issues Linda & Christof Deimer founded NMGS near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as a means for the New Mexico gaming community to continue playing online and to support local game stores. This was largely intended to facilitate the Stay at Home Play at Home initiative which was designed to advocate for social distancing & flatten the curve. Since then, the community of New Mexico Gamers Society has evolved and is mostly active in private groups, some even using their own discord servers, and games happen throughout the state both in person and online.

Initially the first members of NMGS were from the D&D Adventurers League community at Ettin Games & Hobbies in Albuquerque. Since then the online community has been growing to include game stores throughout New Mexico from White Rock down to Las Cruces and has gamers that are interested in a variety of games and play styles. While our community members are largely made up of New Mexico residents, this is not a requirement as we have members from throughout the country and even abroad.

The majority of conversations with the gaming community are done in the NMGS discord server where each event host has the option of having their own text and voice channels and there are several channels for assorted topics, such as announcements of upcoming events, Virtual Table Tops (help & how to), miniature painting, game creation & development, memes, Looking for Group, and so forth. Beyond the Organized play 5th edition D&D there are also event hosts that are running homebrew D&D games, Pathfinder, Cthulu, X-wing, Vampire the Masquerade and more.

As of late 2025 the website for NMGS.club, along with all of the recent backup files, was hacked and had to be taken down for several months. It is currently in the process of being reevaluated for either being rebuilt or retired.

Previously the website for NMGS featured a list of New Mexico game stores, a permanent invite link to the NMGS discord, the NMGS profile on various social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, & Twitch), a detailed FAQ that covers some specific questions that newcomers often have, community resources for a number of gaming and life related topics.

The website is designed and maintained by Christof Deimer while he and Linda Deimer both serve as Admins for the group, however due to declining health issues neither are able to host the numerous games they once had. Given that the site was down for an extended period of time without any notification to the admin being made, it is unclear if the site had been providing value that it once had. Time constraints also play a factor with Christof’s ability to spend time doing non-work-related web development.