This meme format is great!
…and now I want to play darkest dungeon again.
Our DM (who is awesome and cool) has 2 campaigns going:
The main one for if we all are there
An episodic, side campaign if 1 or 2 people are missing
I don’t get group who can’t play when one player it missing. We all know that life happens. If a player miss, we play without them, if she GM miss, we do a one shot
If it’s the first session on a new system. Then it gets weird.
Context: we did char creation in August. We haven’t even gotten to session 1 yet.
First session is the easiest! You just meet the missing player in the next session. Avoids the forced “you meet in a tavern” trope.
Issue is the new system. It’s not dnd. It’s genesys(Legend of 5 rings). It’s all samurai here (technically not yet)
I’ve heard of L5R, don’t know much about it. Are you saying the system makes it hard to add/remove players once campaign starts?
We actually started the game. The concepts are ways enough. Weve all been helping each other with mechanics because they’re not as intuitive starting out, compared to the star wars tabletops that use the same system.
It’s just such a different genre that it’s easier to get as many people in at once to explain everything. 2 of the people are new to tabletops and the genesys system is a bit complex. Especially L5R.
One player down is still a regular campaign day. I ain’t organizing a one shot every time someone’s got to cancel.
In the face of death does true heroism show, or cowardice.
“Many fall in the face of chaos…but not this one. Not today.”
For DnD, I normally aim for six players, and I run if there’s at least four present.
Knowing that the game will go on anyway without you is really good motivation to not flake out (I speak as someone who flakes out a bunch.) - and DnD is a very easy game to just have someone be not present for a week.
