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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1770100" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm.  Seems to me that you gus tend to add characters diffeently than I.  You guys sound like you run things rather like an organized mercenary company.  I tend to work things more organically.  I work new characters into the story such that they really have to be there for a while, even if the older characters don't trust them.  The group doesn't really have the option of doing an entry interview and tossing the new PC aside if they don't pass.If I were a character faced with such questioning, my thoughts would probably be, "Either these guys are paranoid, or they have enemies that might use subterfuge and betrayal to get to them.  For all I know, there's already an agent among them.  If I join this group, I'm stepping into a rather nasty nest of snakes, and I may well die even though I had no part in what these people did to cheese off their enemies."Many characters, having had such thoughts, would choose not to join.  Questioning like that is rather like showing all the worst aspects of your company to a new recruit at a job interview.  It should really fail to impress your candidates.</blockquote>