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D&D Encounters, just what the Dr ordered?
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<blockquote data-quote="hutchback" data-source="post: 5164173" data-attributes="member: 86196"><p>I realize that what I am about to convey is purely anecdotal, but I am curious if others have experienced the same thing.</p><p></p><p>I have been playing in a weekly 4E game at my FLGS for a number of months. The group I joined had been meeting for some time already. There were regularly 8 of us including the DM, which was too large a group for most people's tastes.</p><p></p><p>The DM, an employee of said FLGS, had been unable to find another DM. Preventing him from splitting the group.</p><p></p><p>I had begun to consider running another game as a DM, but D&D Encounters locked it for me. The fact that they were providing the bulk of the materials and presenting a campaign designed specifically to be run in small chunks was very appealing to me as a newbie DM.</p><p></p><p>The current DM, warned me that it may take some time to fill up the new group, but that I should hang in there because it would happen with time.</p><p></p><p>Well we launched Encounters with a group of 6, none of whom came over from the old group. Over the course of the last 6 weeks, two more DM's have volunteered to run Encounters each of which are now running groups of 4-6 each week.</p><p></p><p>In a matter of week's we went from 1 game to 4. The players in each group are predominately new to 4E or D&D altogether.</p><p></p><p>I can't help that think that Encounters has a lot, if not everything, to do with this. Has anyone else experience this kind of growth in their Encounters group? Do you think this is exactly the kind of thing needed to revitalize interest in tabletop RPGs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hutchback, post: 5164173, member: 86196"] I realize that what I am about to convey is purely anecdotal, but I am curious if others have experienced the same thing. I have been playing in a weekly 4E game at my FLGS for a number of months. The group I joined had been meeting for some time already. There were regularly 8 of us including the DM, which was too large a group for most people's tastes. The DM, an employee of said FLGS, had been unable to find another DM. Preventing him from splitting the group. I had begun to consider running another game as a DM, but D&D Encounters locked it for me. The fact that they were providing the bulk of the materials and presenting a campaign designed specifically to be run in small chunks was very appealing to me as a newbie DM. The current DM, warned me that it may take some time to fill up the new group, but that I should hang in there because it would happen with time. Well we launched Encounters with a group of 6, none of whom came over from the old group. Over the course of the last 6 weeks, two more DM's have volunteered to run Encounters each of which are now running groups of 4-6 each week. In a matter of week's we went from 1 game to 4. The players in each group are predominately new to 4E or D&D altogether. I can't help that think that Encounters has a lot, if not everything, to do with this. Has anyone else experience this kind of growth in their Encounters group? Do you think this is exactly the kind of thing needed to revitalize interest in tabletop RPGs? [/QUOTE]
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