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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 3606453" data-attributes="member: 14197">Hey gang --It looks like I will be running WotBS with a party of 6 or 7 players, mosly newbies, and I was curious what recommendations you may have on adjusting for this many PCs and/or lack of D&D experience.  Four female players, three male players (each RPing their own gender, thank goodness), with very little powergaming or meta-gaming in their PC creation.  They are focusing on background and story, and I sense that they will not be very well "optimized" PCs, but really good for the RP aspect of things. This is what we have so far:1. Female Half-Elf Wizard, player with 1yr D&D 3.5 experience, she wants to take some cleric levels and ultimately become a mystic theurge.2. Male Human Cleric, player with lots of RPG experience, little 3.5 experience, will play straight cleric (healing domain -- I am thinking maybe aspirations of being part of the Acquiline Cross?), act as party leader.3. Male Fighter, meat shield, has 1st ed experience, good with learning rules, wants to be the meat shield.4. Female Human Rogue, player has no RPG experience beyond playing Bard's Tale (CRPG) back in the day.  She wants her rogue to be a low charisma, low Con, good Dex/Int/Wis based rogue.  Pussed skin, outcast, poor, and an urchin type.5. Female Elven Ranger (archery based), player with NO RPG experience, but loves playing FRPG console games.  This ranger has aspirations to learn the ways of the arcane (wizard), but became a ranger because it's the "family business" (bossy older sister made her do it)6. Female Elven Druid - don't know much about this character yet...7. Male 1/2 orc or Human Barbarian - this is the wildcard player or PC, may or may not play.OK, so this is the makeup of our group.  I wanted to mine the minds of other WotBS DMs in the hopes of avoiding some later campaign pitfalls during character creation.  I want to add to their backgrounds to make them more region specific and help them get some "skin in the game" so to speak.  I want the campaign to draw them in, and I DON'T want the typical tavern meeting to get them together. I going to use Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous for a cosmology, but I will simplify it for a group of new players, keeping it somewhat light.  I'll keep you posted on what I am doing to make this work for the campaign.I think Primitive Screwhead has a large group too, so he may be as help [whips out DM Summoning IX scroll].Any thoughts or helpful ideas on how I can flesh out their backgrounds for them to make them part of the campaign setting?  Any ideas about running this AP with new players? with this many PCs?  All comments are welcome.CC</blockquote>

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