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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3004863" data-attributes="member: 40961">My most recent, and most successful, campaign startup began by telling the players during character creation that the game was a war campaign using rules from Heroes of Battle, that they were part of a special ops squad that was expected to be relatively self sufficient, and that character classes that didn't make any sense in such a setting were banned.  I didn't tell them which those were, I left it to them to not be dicks.  I then began the first mission in the heat of battle, with about 2 minutes (real time) of conversation between the players and the other npcs on a troop transport boat poised to drop them behind enemy lines.  I left an NPC with them to provide light backup and to give me a way to converse with the players about where they were, what was going on, etc.  The rest of the session was largely combat as the players attacked a guardtower, held it against a retaliatory attack, and travelled back to their own lines.This worked extremely well.  The players bonded better when they actually had something in common to bond over.  I've never had good luck with expecting the characters to all get along when they don't really know each other.  Remember, when you have that initial "you all meet in a tavern" session, not only do the other players not know your character's personality, in a way, you don't either.  I think its better to develop the character a bit, then start the interparty roleplaying, and one way to develop the character is through some interesting and objective based combat.</blockquote>

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