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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9872650" data-attributes="member: 725">While that might seem to be the the most logical feature to want in a group, in my experience it isn't (just that). As [USER=7808]@Deset Gled[/USER] said, people change, while they can certainly over decades, they can also suddenly change due to experiences. What I find most important in players is a 'give and take' mentality, where they collectively don't just want to push their own agenda, but also respect each others ideas and time. Open and honest discourse helps with that a LOT! And while that might not work with folks with opposite 'demands', everyone vaguely going in the same direction is often good enough vs. everyone going on the same narrow straight path.But also keep in mind that a very important factor is also local culture. Folks not showing up at the last minute is pretty anathema around here, unless they have a very important reason (I'm from the Netherlands). While such behaviour seems to be common for Americans. We're also known for brutal honesty (considered offensive by quite a few other cultures), and the ability to take such brutal honesty... Acting the same way around most American groups would offend quite a few of them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As such, finding the 'right' people depends on where and how you're looking. A group dynamic would work quite different for someone in Brazil to someone in Poland, and if you're running an online VTT session with folks from all over the world keep cultural differences in mind. And even if you're running a local group, depending on where you live, you might still have different people from different cultural backgrounds...</blockquote>

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