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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8927671" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Good advice and mostly tracks my experience, except for "switch genre or system but not both."  I find it is easier to get people who are mostly familiar with D&D to get into a new system if it is not easily compared to D&D. Being open to one shots or a series of several sessions allows people to try a new system without feeling like they have to make a long-term commitment to a game they don't know if they'll like. For a while, gaming conventions were my main opportunity to try new games. But now, with online gaming, I've been able to regularly find and try new games using Roll20s find a game feature (mostly free) and StartPlaying.games (paid). In terms of running games, I found that when I post on Meetup.com or on the bulletin board of my FLGS, I've been able to find people interested in trying one shots of various games. With my regular gaming group, our main campaign will likely continue to be 5e or another D&D based system (I'm thinking Dungeon Crawl Classics).  But I'll run one shots of other systems. Not all of my group will want to play all one shots (I have one player that just isn't interested in sci fi type games for example), but I can run one shots on the side with just some of the main group. Also, if a session of my main campaign has to be postponed because some players are not able to make it, it is good to have some one shots in other systems ready to go.</blockquote>

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