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As a Player, why do you play in games you haven't bought into?
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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8120541" data-attributes="member: 6687260"><p>Although I'd recommend not having too much faith in writing if it's mostly along the lines of this is what you can play in the campaign.</p><p></p><p>You get better results if instead it's along the lines of "this is what you can do in this game that's cool and which you can't do anywhere else". Tell the potential players that knight PCs begin with a small castle and a squire and that can determine their own heraldry. If you have a map of the kingdom ask them to determine where their ancestral lands are and maybe give a sentence about each region. Maybe give out a small benfit based on the location of these lands.</p><p></p><p>The trick is to get the imagination firing in the direction you want rather than at cross purposes.</p><p></p><p>And it can be very hard sometimes to spell out what doesn't fit in advance. You may say that half-elf Paladins are fine, but be less happy, if a player brings one that talks like a valley girl.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8120541, member: 6687260"] Although I'd recommend not having too much faith in writing if it's mostly along the lines of this is what you can play in the campaign. You get better results if instead it's along the lines of "this is what you can do in this game that's cool and which you can't do anywhere else". Tell the potential players that knight PCs begin with a small castle and a squire and that can determine their own heraldry. If you have a map of the kingdom ask them to determine where their ancestral lands are and maybe give a sentence about each region. Maybe give out a small benfit based on the location of these lands. The trick is to get the imagination firing in the direction you want rather than at cross purposes. And it can be very hard sometimes to spell out what doesn't fit in advance. You may say that half-elf Paladins are fine, but be less happy, if a player brings one that talks like a valley girl. [/QUOTE]
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