I live in Murrieta California. When I lived up in norcal a couple friends and I bought books but we were total noobs. Our shifts got swapped around to all hours of the day and we just never got it together. I think I still have a few books lying around and I've thought about giving it a go. So aside from here (PM me if you play around here!) where would I go to meet said gamers?
I'm slightly interested in Warhammer and D&D (Faerun and Krynn) as well. I'm a huge fantasy fiction fan when I find time to read. So much so that I often read the compendiums as a young kid even though they just described the game...