Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="practicalm" data-source="post: 6408109" data-attributes="member: 6777923">One of the things I miss about the old Pyramid magazine message boards were proposals of campaigns by one of the players there.  To play with that GM, you read the synopsis and applied for the game you wanted to play.  Each campaign was a limited run for a planned number of sessions.  This really informed my play as well because if someone wasn't a fit for the campaign I wanted to run, they didn't get invited.I think this may not be a very common way to play because many people have a group of friends and all those friends who want to play get to play.  But if you don't as a GM create some criteria for your players to met, you will not have as much fun as when you select from a pool of applicants.  Now you can do this with each player's characters as well (and I did when I ran games that were more about hey its a group of friends and it would have been uncomfortable excluding them). I probably was lucky in that I always seemed to have a group that worked well.  (two interesting exceptions but then I just started my own groups).Right now I am running a game where because it's at a church anyone can play.  It's mostly with kids so it's probably way combat focused than I'd like but I'm trying to get the players to interact with the world more.  I'm trying to create the idea that people might talk instead of attacking each other.</blockquote>