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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warunsun" data-source="post: 6565999" data-attributes="member: 6688054"><p>As a DM with a full group (meaning over four players) I would most definitely tell my group if I was adding more players. However, I know my players and I wouldn't add someone to the mix that I felt would cause an issue. We have recruited from outside of our known players too before. Usually this goes smoothly but often said new players don't last. We vetted the new folks through all my established players before we even sat down with them. Sometimes they were complete unknowns but usually someone knew of them through some friend or acquittance. I don't let people run two characters. Sometimes I do let the players run an NPC companion character temporarily (so I can focus on the foes) but that is it. If a player can't show up his character generally isn't present in my games. If a player is going to be late I will have their character follow the group around and do very little until they show up.  As long as they aren't more than 90 minutes late I usually give them full XP. Absent players get no XP for their characters. But they also aren't in any danger either. During 4E I followed the suggestion that even absent players get XP for their characters (which I never had done before or since). It kept them all leveling at the same time and it was nice in that way but some folks started to abuse it. During 4E I also handed out treasure to specific individual characters (which I never had done before or since). It was quite refreshing and a different take. Absolutely no arguing over treasure. But it became boring since in 4E there were certain key qualities you wanted in an item and variety was less important.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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