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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiCaudata" data-source="post: 3169173" data-attributes="member: 40077">We always do.  Sorry for the mix up here, I'm pretty sure it probably lies more in my miscommunications (go figure) than yours.  I don't know the boards well or in great depth, but I actually was referring to your number of direct experiences.  In some ways I am saying this to be contrary, but here's my main point:This site is HUGE with lots of (snow?)flakes drifting down in the midst of it all.  Even with 8 games with multiple different people in each game and even including reading a number of threads that deal with this very issue, we don't have a decent cross section of the site.  There are 1500+ people on right now with 2600+ IC threads.  This site would not be this popular if it always failed.  I'm not denying that flakes exist or even that we might run into more than a few if we open up a 5th position.  I am also not trying to belittle your direct experience.  However, I really do think that with a good amount of filtering on your behalf we ended up with a decent crowd last time and made it through some big hurdles before we disintegrated when only 2 original PC's were left.  The case I'm making for this time is that with 4 pretty dedicated PC's keeping a 5th interested is way more likely.  Add in that I'm backing the pages up personally and I believe we can definitely finish this adventure and maybe start into the next one without much difficulty.  Again, eternal optimist viewpoint here...To solidify my view.  I'm all for 5th character inclusion.  I think it would be a good way to handle the increased difficulty of this adventure.  I'd prefer that 5th character to be someone else.  Someone we knew would be better, but we don't know anyone else with 3rd edition knowledge.  (hell I don't even have all that much 3.5 knowledge)  Someone on the boards is possible, but only with a really good (and maybe slightly rigorous) filter applied to them for flakiness.  A potential filter should be sure and notify them that we really do expect them to stick with the game for awhile and post at least once per day as a bare minimum starter. DMPC is a last resort, and I see it as having only a slight advantage over 4 person party. (That advantage being wholesale total hp count.)</blockquote>

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