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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2710815" data-attributes="member: 13164">I've never tried having the PCs meet at another party's funeral... hmmm...Usually how the party forms depends on the game I am playing.  D&D games usually involve an adventuring guild which all adventurers must belong to until they obtain an independent adventuring license from a local government official (which I do once I'm sure the party will work together well).  When I play in a modern game, it's usually serendipity.  The PCs are passengers on the same plane, or wandering in the same crowd, when Something Bad (tm) happens and forces them to roll for initiative. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In futuristic/Star Wars games, I've made the PCs members of the same starfighter squad, a developing commando team being trained by the government's finest, a group of wanna-be bounty hunters chasing after the next big booty (not THAT kind), and a disparate group of mercenaries hired by a recent graduate in the field of xenoarchaeology (who was one of the PCs).  A d20 Future campaign currently in the works will have the PCs as either crew members or hired guns on a blockade-running freighter heading from Earth to Europa.  When the ship is damaged in low orbit and most of the crew is dead, the PCs will have to pool their abilities and resources and work together to repair the ship, while keeping themselves safe behind enemy lines.  After that, they get to keep the ship, and that's enough of a reason for them to stick together as any.I do like the idea of having the players come up with the reasons themselves.</blockquote>

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