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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5475115" data-attributes="member: 54877">The OP tracks very well with what I've observed.  I've also had a lot of good fun introducing people to gaming over the years.  I would only add two things to those recommendations (or supplement the recommendations, if you prefer): 1. It helps immensely to not only have other interests but to pursue the common ones with the people that might be interested in gaming.  I once built almost an entire gaming group from scratch out of co-workers that spent a lot of time playing various sports together.  (We were all from out of state, and united in our "not knowing anyone local" isolation.)  That's also how my first high school group stayed together so long.  We weren't a gaming group; we were friends that happened to game together, among other things.   This is less critical long-term, for many people.  In a lot of ways, our current group has remained friends, in part, because we keep in touch through our game.  But most of them weren't gamers when I met them, and would probably have never become gamers had we not happened to be friendly for other reasons.  In contrast, a game of all experienced veterans is different, like a serious bowling league subset of "co workers that bowl".  Both types of groups have their advantages and disadvantages.  So it can be a mistake to treat one group like the other. 2. For the first few sessions, it is absolutely critical any veteran players involved are on the same page with you as to making the game interesting for the new folks.  Given my druthers, I'd nearly always prefer to introduce beginners in a group of nothing but beginners.  Barring that (or an excessively shy group of beginners), I want an experienced player or two that are willing to fade in the background as much as possible--helping the beginners to fly a little faster, but not runnings things for them.  There are a lot of otherwise perfectly acceptable behavior from veterans that can be very off-putting to beginners.</blockquote>

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