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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6227343" data-attributes="member: 177">I'm not surprised.  OWBN is designed for you to have a long-standing character.  There'd be an expectation that the folks playing in the game had established characters, and likely established relationships.  That can be a daunting social barrier for a new player, and probably seen as not worth the effort for a one-shot.If you want to encourage crossover, your games (both tabletop and live-action) should probably be self-contained and stand alone, without folks bringing in established characters, or requiring the player to have much world or rules knowledge beforehand.I think folks get into live-action games largely the same way as they get into tabletop - someone they know invites, educates, and brings them in.  If you lack the established social connection, trying to encourage them to do something new when they already have a room full of stuff they already like can be difficult.One possibility - get a couple of "horde-style" live action games.  This construction is like most TV shows - there are a handful of central cast characters, and then a horde of extras.  The cast play the same characters for the entire game, and the extras come in, play a role for ten minutes or half an hour or whatever, and then walk out again.  Maybe they pick up a new horde character, or maybe they decide to wander off and do something else.I've had some luck with occasionally wandering over to a room of tabletop players and saying, "Hey, folks!  I need four people to play badass bikers causing trouble in a diner.  It'll take like ten minutes.  Any volunteers?"  They get a really short taste of live-action play, with no real commitment to spend four or six hours at it.</blockquote>

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