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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9620038" data-attributes="member: 9053">Fellow Gen X here, and I remember working as a coach for debate in the 90s. They had participation trophies here and my team thought they were a joke. What they liked was that I followed up with each team member after each debate and we talked about what they did and how they could improve. That human contact an encouragement over the course of the season were a key ingredient in what made us successful. I still talk to a couple of those team members decades later.And when I was just a kid, I ran D&amp;D at my library and taught people how to play the game. Even though I was really young, I would often play with kids even younger than me. No matter what happened in the session, especially if some characters died (and this was 1E so that happened) I made sure to talk to the players to do my best to make sure they were having fun. It was one of the most awesome times I ever had over the course of a couple of years. Did those people keep playing? Some did, but most of them I lost track of. I just was striving to make sure everyone had fun. And I never had a thought about losing characters, nor did they.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 9620038, member: 9053"] Fellow Gen X here, and I remember working as a coach for debate in the 90s. They had participation trophies here and my team thought they were a joke. What they liked was that I followed up with each team member after each debate and we talked about what they did and how they could improve. That human contact an encouragement over the course of the season were a key ingredient in what made us successful. I still talk to a couple of those team members decades later. And when I was just a kid, I ran D&D at my library and taught people how to play the game. Even though I was really young, I would often play with kids even younger than me. No matter what happened in the session, especially if some characters died (and this was 1E so that happened) I made sure to talk to the players to do my best to make sure they were having fun. It was one of the most awesome times I ever had over the course of a couple of years. Did those people keep playing? Some did, but most of them I lost track of. I just was striving to make sure everyone had fun. And I never had a thought about losing characters, nor did they. [/QUOTE]

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