Re: [DL] Best Ways to Introduce new players.

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 08:42 PM 2/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:
 >You know alot of people have been talking about the best ways to introduce
 >people to our favorite game.  You know what I find the best.
 >
 >I take a group of new players and teach them the system by playing (gulp) a
 >straight western.  No wierdness, no zombies, no arcane backgrounds.  I play
 >it for a mini-campaign (6-10 sessions) then I kill the characters.  If any
 >of them pull for Harrowed, then those characters get to come back, if not,
 >then they can make characters using all the features of the game.
 >
 > So what do you all think of that?

That's pretty close to what I pull - but I have 'em replay the Night of the 
Living Dead in the town of Nacogdoches, Tx.  I have a pile of archetypes 
sitting in aWestern saloon, I give 'em a few minutes to role-play amongst 
themselves and then I have a zombie walk in the front door.

After the first zombie it 'spatched, someone inevitably peeks outside, just 
in time to see a horde of shambling zombies heading in.  In the middle of 
this mob would be two full Deadlands (ie FAST) zombies.  The players really 
blink when those zombies pull up pistols and shoot back.  :)

And nobody has ever survived.

That lack of survival seems to hook the players in more than anything else 
I've done.  But the whole scenario gives players a chance to get a feel for 
the mechanics.


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Allan Seyberth
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