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<blockquote data-quote="Ian Demagi" data-source="post: 3667163" data-attributes="member: 43754">General - Do you keep players in your group who don't contribute?We interview them before. Sometimes a few of us go to dinner to talk to potential new members.We lay out expectations (like when the game runs you usually need to be here) and let the guy know personal pet peives of some of the other guys to avoid any initial problems.We layout what we play: D &amp; D 3.5 only, and how we play it,Core rules &amp; Completes only, no psionics, no splat books, no Ebberon.Since we play at guys homes a certain decorum is expected. We had to remove a guy with servere ADHD. We had another guy email me and asked if we would consider playing with a person who had Aspbergers Syndrom-I flat out told him no-the reason why-what recently happened-and we did not want to try again-end. Also the feeling is you are joining OUR group WE are not joining yours. Most some us have played together the for over 5 years, some over 10. Guys that want to come in immediately run the game, switch to 2nd Ed. (cause it was soooo much better) are frankly told to ! off.So we dont dont have much problem with this because we are pretty selective. Frankly,this has made us disliked by some in our city (a friendly gamestore owner tipped us off to that).Most of us only have one night out and we choose to use it gaming. So guys that drag the game down are not going to last long. but more probably are not going to be permitted to join in the first place.Sorry for the long answer but this group has lasted since 1987 in &quot;the Nati;&quot; We have done at least some things&nbsp; right. Hopefully it helps other groups too, Ian.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ian Demagi, post: 3667163, member: 43754"] [b]General - Do you keep players in your group who don't contribute?[/b] We interview them before. Sometimes a few of us go to dinner to talk to potential new members.We lay out expectations (like when the game runs you usually need to be here) and let the guy know personal pet peives of some of the other guys to avoid any initial problems. We layout what we play: D & D 3.5 only, and how we play it,Core rules & Completes only, no psionics, no splat books, no Ebberon. Since we play at guys homes a certain decorum is expected. We had to remove a guy with servere ADHD. We had another guy email me and asked if we would consider playing with a person who had Aspbergers Syndrom-I flat out told him no-the reason why-what recently happened-and we did not want to try again-end. Also the feeling is you are joining OUR group WE are not joining yours. Most some us have played together the for over 5 years, some over 10. Guys that want to come in immediately run the game, switch to 2nd Ed. (cause it was soooo much better) are frankly told to ! off. So we dont dont have much problem with this because we are pretty selective. Frankly,this has made us disliked by some in our city (a friendly gamestore owner tipped us off to that). Most of us only have one night out and we choose to use it gaming. So guys that drag the game down are not going to last long. but more probably are not going to be permitted to join in the first place. Sorry for the long answer but this group has lasted since 1987 in "the Nati;" We have done at least some things right. Hopefully it helps other groups too, Ian. [/QUOTE]

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