Community

Nov 7, 2012 -- 6:17PM, NewJeffCT wrote:

OK, I recently moved and have been trying to put together a new gaming group at my new home.

In my last home, I did similar and kind of just threw the guys together with, "You're on the road to Yelden, after having been hired by a merchant whose daughter was kidnapped..." and, I basically threw the group into a combat encounter.  The group had some guys that were DMing their own campaigns, so I think they just went with it, appreciating that I didn't go with the cliched "you're in a tavern..."  it worked well, and the group stayed together for the entire 5 years I lived there.

However, I'm not sure that's going to work again, and wanted a few ideas for getting people that don't know each other out of game (yet) together in game to work as an adventuring group at the table.

The players will be starting in a small port city, so I asked them to come up with a reason to be there in game.  The group will be a human wizard, a half-elf paladin, a halfling cleric, a human druid, and one guy who hasn't decided yet.  They'll all be good aligned.

Any ideas? 

Thanks

A good way to do this is ask the players for a 3x3...a list & brief description of 3 friends, 3 contacts and 3 enemies. If they get this to you, you can easily get a great starting hook for them based on either their friends or contacts. That way they can all have their own reason to be doing what they're doing but still all be gathered for the same thing.

For instance, perhaps the paladin has a request from his superior to help, and the fighter is doing it as a favor to a friend and the rogue is doing it because he got offered the job through one of his contacts who tips him off to profit to be had. Etc.