D&D 5E "When Starting Up a New Campaign I Always Have a Session #0" (a poll)

[Ath'kethin]

First the premise:

True or False: "When Starting Up a New Campaign I Always Have a Session #0"

Now there are a couple of things I want to establish before you vote. . .

By "always" I don't mean literally "always" or else I'd be asking if you've ever not had a session #0 for a campaign, and my guess is most of us some time in the past have not had (or even heard of) a Session 0, but I mean since adopting the notion of the session 0.

Though of course, if you have never adopted it at all, the answer is false.

I also don't mean only with new groups or new players - the question is if you begin each new campaign (or AP or whatever) with a Session #0

Not only Always for me, but I even have what I think of as a "Session -1," in which I recruit players by describing the nature of the game/campaign I plan to run. As I tend to be a little off the dial in how I run games, I find this conversation helps prevent people from being unpleasantly surprised at Session 0.

I fell it's very important to set expectations before people are invested enough to drive to the location where we will be playing.