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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2535372" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Yikes! I totally missed your thread back then, reveal. Looking at the dates I see that I was right in the midst of "Air Conditioning Debacle, 05". Sorry about that.</p><p></p><p>My advice here applies to your concerns as well as Frukathka's:</p><p></p><p>1) Get an idea of the pool of people that you have to work with. Decide who you're trying to recruit. Just ENWorlders? Folks from the local gaming store? Gamers who post in other online forums?</p><p></p><p>2) TRY TO FIND A FREE VENUE. Other folks may differ in opinion on this but I can tell you that I wouldn't be organizing the NC Game Days if we had to pay for the venue. When money gets involved then you suddenly have a host of other issues to deal with. If your venue is free then you don't have any minimum attendance that must be achieved in order to defray the costs to a reasonable degree. If necessary, host the Game Day in somebody's home and keep it small. But I'd rather it be small and free than big and for a fee any day.</p><p></p><p>3) Get some GM's to sign up to run games. It helps if you yourself are a GM and are willing to run games too. I recommend that these be posted in the first or second post in a thread here in the General forum. But that is also because (when I started out with the first NC Game Day) I was only trying to recruit from ENWorld. Have the GM's in question specify how many players they want for each game.</p><p></p><p>4) Pimp the thread hard and look for players to fill those slots. Again, I was looking for ENWorlders but I wasn't above finding gamers from off-board, getting them to sign up here and adding them to the games. This struck me as a great way to recruit players for the Game Day as well as new faces for ENWorld.</p><p></p><p>5) Add "extra stuff" if you can. I LOVE gaming with ENWorlders. I also love just chatting with them in person. We added a "pre Game Day dinner" at the 2nd NC Game Day and we've always gone out for dinner afterwards at a nearby restaurant. This is a great chance to just hang and talk as well as chat over the fun events of the day (it is always fun to hear about the games that you didn't get to play in) and, perhaps most importantly, get feedback about what to do differently for the next Game Day.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's the basics from my perspective. I'm happy to field questions as always.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 2535372, member: 99"] Yikes! I totally missed your thread back then, reveal. Looking at the dates I see that I was right in the midst of "Air Conditioning Debacle, 05". Sorry about that. My advice here applies to your concerns as well as Frukathka's: 1) Get an idea of the pool of people that you have to work with. Decide who you're trying to recruit. Just ENWorlders? Folks from the local gaming store? Gamers who post in other online forums? 2) TRY TO FIND A FREE VENUE. Other folks may differ in opinion on this but I can tell you that I wouldn't be organizing the NC Game Days if we had to pay for the venue. When money gets involved then you suddenly have a host of other issues to deal with. If your venue is free then you don't have any minimum attendance that must be achieved in order to defray the costs to a reasonable degree. If necessary, host the Game Day in somebody's home and keep it small. But I'd rather it be small and free than big and for a fee any day. 3) Get some GM's to sign up to run games. It helps if you yourself are a GM and are willing to run games too. I recommend that these be posted in the first or second post in a thread here in the General forum. But that is also because (when I started out with the first NC Game Day) I was only trying to recruit from ENWorld. Have the GM's in question specify how many players they want for each game. 4) Pimp the thread hard and look for players to fill those slots. Again, I was looking for ENWorlders but I wasn't above finding gamers from off-board, getting them to sign up here and adding them to the games. This struck me as a great way to recruit players for the Game Day as well as new faces for ENWorld. 5) Add "extra stuff" if you can. I LOVE gaming with ENWorlders. I also love just chatting with them in person. We added a "pre Game Day dinner" at the 2nd NC Game Day and we've always gone out for dinner afterwards at a nearby restaurant. This is a great chance to just hang and talk as well as chat over the fun events of the day (it is always fun to hear about the games that you didn't get to play in) and, perhaps most importantly, get feedback about what to do differently for the next Game Day. That's the basics from my perspective. I'm happy to field questions as always. [/QUOTE]
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