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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2079218" data-attributes="member: 7240"><p>I always gamed with friends until I moved to a new city and had to join a gaming group cold. But essentially, the game devolved into the same situation I was used to. The new recruits who established friendships with other players stuck around and those who only maintained a strictly gaming association dropped out. So now I'm back to just gaming with friends. Admittedly, not all of these friends are close friends but they are people whom I would now describe as "friends" rather than "acquaintances" in casual conversation.I always screen. A first come-first serve policy never works out well; just meeting over tea or coffee for an hour is, in my view, quite sufficient to discern if the person is socially competent to join my group, though.Absolutely not. People who are compatible as friends are not necessarily compatible as RPG partners and vice-versa. People's tastes and styles of RPG play vary so it doesn't follow that friends' gaming styles and tastes will be compatible.Of course not. But if this person starts acting like it does, maybe you should consider whether you want to be friends with someone who cannot understand that you can still be their friend without wanting to game with them.I recommend against using the survey. It was something I did as an adolescent and, frankly, it was just something to hide behind. You don't need your friends to fill out forms to know which ones will fit with your game and which won't; so drop the survey and just choose based on the knowledge you already have.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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