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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2048875" data-attributes="member: 1210">Hahaha... no, people sign in when they get there, and there's only the game start and game end time... They sign in when they are ready to do so- either as soon as they arrive or, if (f'rinstance) they're eating something before they start playing, once they're ready. The sign-in sheet isn't like a punishment or anything.  It helps me keep track of what happened when.  None of my players have ever objected or found it intrusive or abusive or anything.  It's also a good way to signify that we're starting- we've hung out for a half hour as people trickle in, and now we have a quorum, and passing around the sign-in sheet really serves to focus everything and start the ball rolling, so to speak.  Furthermore, it helps remind everyone of who everyone's playing- "Oh, that's right, Bill is playing Horbin in this game."  The players like being able to look back at the notes about previous games and stuff, too- and there's a title on each one, so the pcs often have a little clue as to what awaits them in the session.  Though on many occasions they don't do what I think and the title turns out to be ironically inappropriate.  But hey, that's free will for ya. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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