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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mistergone" data-source="post: 693692" data-attributes="member: 9647">I can totally understand not wanting strange people in your home. I live alone, with a huge house and lots of place to play, but I've been having the problem of not wanting just any person in my house.Let's face reality... some gamer people... are not the cleanest or sanest people. I have met all kinds, from good Christian family guys to gothic mistresses of the macabre to your atypical convention-going unwashed gamer geek. They're by no means all bad, and I've met a lot of good people through gaming. (Wow, come to think of it, all the friends I have now, in one way or another, I have met in relation to gaming.)However, I've met even more freaks. And I'm talking hard core circus reject freaks. People I wouldn't  want around my pets much less my kids or spouse.The best bet is to meet initially at a local game store that has some tables available to play at. Like someone else said, just chill out and talk about the game and stuff. Maybe explain campaign specifics. One way I've found that really works (all the two times I've used it) is to also hold the first "mini-game" at the game store too, where you run a sample combat scenario. Here you can make characters, introduce any house rules you might have with the game system, and most importantly, see how the players play. You can learn a lot about a gamer by running through a combat with them, and by seeing what kind of character they make or like to play.Then at the end, you tell everyone that you'll be in touch soon for scheduling the regular game. Invite only the people you think you can get along with. As for those you decide you don't want to game with, well, you have a few options, it's up to you and your personal style. Heck, they don't know where you live.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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