Shoe
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Greetings all,
I have been DM'ing for around 15 years and consider myself to be pretty good at it. I always find myself with the same problem right before begining a new campaign; How do i get all my players to begin the campaign cooperating? I do not restrict Alignment/race/class other than by use of the 3.5 D&D PHB, so getting the players interested in working to gether can sometimes be a challenge. I am leaning towards telling them a back story that links all of thier backstories and just not roleplaying it out, but does that stifle players too much? My games always tend to be a somewhat metagamed/forced cooperation between players and then an awesome epic during which everyone has a blast. I am trying to improve my skills as a game master and this seems to be my major weakness.
Players in my group are decent roleplayers and make choices based on thier charaters not on thier own preferences, and with many choosing at least one Neutral axis on thier alignment it is hard to motivate them to care about one another.
Any ideas
Thanks,
Shoe
I have been DM'ing for around 15 years and consider myself to be pretty good at it. I always find myself with the same problem right before begining a new campaign; How do i get all my players to begin the campaign cooperating? I do not restrict Alignment/race/class other than by use of the 3.5 D&D PHB, so getting the players interested in working to gether can sometimes be a challenge. I am leaning towards telling them a back story that links all of thier backstories and just not roleplaying it out, but does that stifle players too much? My games always tend to be a somewhat metagamed/forced cooperation between players and then an awesome epic during which everyone has a blast. I am trying to improve my skills as a game master and this seems to be my major weakness.
Players in my group are decent roleplayers and make choices based on thier charaters not on thier own preferences, and with many choosing at least one Neutral axis on thier alignment it is hard to motivate them to care about one another.
Any ideas
Thanks,
Shoe