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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2776865" data-attributes="member: 35788">Couple of suggestions:1.  I DM three games here at Enworld.  Bring that one player here and create a game.  You'll get more players easily.  Heck, if the game posts daily and I can fit in the setting easily, I'd play! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2.  Since I run three games here, feel free to open up the Sblock in my sig and click on any of the IC links.  [Oh, wait.  Don't click on Elysium Squad - they haven't had a combat yet...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> ]  But either Clutches of Evil or Mightier than the Sword have both had plenty of combat.  You'ss see that my players are excellent players - and quite comfortable posting out of the init order knowing that as a DM I'll straighten things out as I bring all their posts together.3.  DON'T make the players post in order of the INIT.  If you do that, your combat rounds will take anywhere from 4 days to a week to do just one round.  That'll get people loosing interest really quick.  If all my players post just once in a given 24-hour time period, I go through a round of combat in a day - sometimes quicker than that if everyone posts.  Of course, when people don't post the game slows.4.  Be upfront about posting expectations.  List it when a player agrees to join.  If they can't manage the posting requirements, it is so much easier to ask them to look for a different game (paced the way they need it to be) at the beginning than once they have started.Anyway, feel free to snoop through my games - just don't post in the IC or the RG threads for each game, please!</blockquote>

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