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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4185393" data-attributes="member: 3087">Just wanted to touch on one thing. This is sort of prentenious but, whatever, I'm the DM I get to be a bit pretentious.The other reason why I don't want there to be "nothing" to do is "the tradgety of the alts".I've seen a few games that are otherwise awesome have trouble with efficiently acquiring players. Logos' DiV/ S@s' Against the Giants springs immediately to mind.Logos, bless his trusting little heart, let people into his DiV game on rpg.net on a first come first serve basis. The people who post first though don't necessarily have follow through. So you start, you open you close, the game tries to start, then you don't have people posting, some people have dropped/some are just delayed, you have to figure out which is which, then you reopen, people you rejected last time have sometimes moved on, you have figure out whether you want to open a new thread or try to ressurect the old one, etc it's <s>kinda</s> rather painful.The other, probably better way, is a sort of beauty contest.  S@s did this. You reopen, set a time frame, have people make characters, pick the people you think'll work out, and so on.But its a lot of work, some people won't get picked, the DM has to stop the game, there are questions about existing player-less PCs.And even in S@s you don't have any real guarantee that you won't have to do it again in a month or so. (It's not that I think that there's anything wrong with people dropping, it happens).This is why I'm toying around with the, 'everybody who's interested make an character they exist in the world' thing. So, if we loose a player then I have this pre-existing 'alt thread'. Somebody's been posting (maybe only once or twice a week, just a line or two), they have a character, the other PCs know this character, they have a reason to hang out.So I wave my magic DM wand and "the next morning as you break camp X's brother Alexander walks over the hill"Alexander, "Dear Sister! Three nights ago, I had a dream that you were in trouble. Upon awakening I realized who I truly was! The hermit of the woods told me you were heading this way and I've traveled all night and all day to catch up with you!"At least that's the theory.Of course posting as a 1st level classless PC in a town with nothing to do isn't interesting. It's actually fairly sucky. Obviously, people who do post every few days something like, "Alexander harvests another few days worth of crop. One day he shakes off the daze for a day or two and tries to go down to the edge of the town to look in the direction his sister departed. His friends have long disappeared from sight though." Are -very- motivated.But if the town has interesting stuff to do in it then, you know, a post a week or two isn't hard really.If 4e is really as easy to run as it's being billed as then it might be possible to have a second group, at which point it would be convenient to have a deeper pool of characters, etc. etc.Probably shouldn't have called it the tragedy of the alt (maybe the monotony of the alt?)Just riffing here.</blockquote>

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