Ulrick
First Post
I just ended my year and a half long campaign because of attendence problems. For the last few sessions or so, only 3 out the 7 players would show up on time. Usually one or two would come late...if at all.
We played weekly and usually at the same time that was a agreed upon by the majority of the players. I've also tried different times to accomodate players such as when certain days just won't work out.
While I understand that life does get in the way (we're all in college), I thought I made it clear that I expect people to show up 75% of the time. I write my adventures for at least 4 players. When only three show up (and there's no cleric and/or wizard) we just can't play w/o downgrading the adventure which IMO takes a lot away from the original vision of the adventure.
And there was a session where none of the original players showed up...leaving the newbies wondering what to do. That really put a kink in the plot line.
I prefer to play weekly or biweekly, any greater length of time between sessions IMO makes the plot suffer.
Now, I am thinking of starting another campaign. Before I start this one, I would like to get some advice on how to deal with attendence problems.
Any advice would appreciated. In this case, I have talked to the players, but it just didn't seem to help. So I folded the campaign.
Thanks.
We played weekly and usually at the same time that was a agreed upon by the majority of the players. I've also tried different times to accomodate players such as when certain days just won't work out.
While I understand that life does get in the way (we're all in college), I thought I made it clear that I expect people to show up 75% of the time. I write my adventures for at least 4 players. When only three show up (and there's no cleric and/or wizard) we just can't play w/o downgrading the adventure which IMO takes a lot away from the original vision of the adventure.
And there was a session where none of the original players showed up...leaving the newbies wondering what to do. That really put a kink in the plot line.
I prefer to play weekly or biweekly, any greater length of time between sessions IMO makes the plot suffer.
Now, I am thinking of starting another campaign. Before I start this one, I would like to get some advice on how to deal with attendence problems.
Any advice would appreciated. In this case, I have talked to the players, but it just didn't seem to help. So I folded the campaign.
Thanks.
