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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8008509" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Recently I've sort of become aware that I've never really had to deal with a group of new players. I've always had a core of 2-3 experienced players to rebuild around.Players come and go for a variety of real life reasons.I started a new group sorta last year at a gamestore but had 2 of my old players and one of their friends to anchor the group. I also lucked out and the newer players were a good bunch and not completely inexperienced.I kept most of the group togather from August to March before Covid lockdown killed it. Lost a couple of players but have that core of 4 to rebuild around.All the other groups in that time frame self destructed although on DM only ran 10 week games with new players. She enjoys training them.Post Covid though I new gamestore has opened and next week is the first games night where one shots are going to be run.IDK if I can run with my March group. I've never really had to run with more than 1-2 new players since 1994. That year I wasn't the DM.I don't plan for long campaigns wrapping it up around level 8-12. Turns out my games are longer than most of the local games.In effect I've probably been a gatekeeper. But I've also kept out what's now called toxic players and I've thinned out the CN Kender types as well. So what do you do? Gamestore games are new for me, I've never played AL and don't want to. Still more used to long term stuff. Any advice?</blockquote>

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