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Starting a Roleplaying Campaign

 

So you want to start a roleplaying game? First, you need to find a group. Test out combinations of players by playing board games before starting a campaign.

This is part 1 in a multi-part series.

 

Key Takeaways

• Finding a group
• People you know vs People you don’t know
• Right personalities for the right type of game
• Scheduling
• Genres
• Minimum Viable Game
  • Board Games, card games, etc.
• Cooperative Goal setting

 

Other Podcast Episodes

• HTP-147 10 Business Lessons Learned in Roleplaying Games
• HTP-21 What Star Wars RPGs can teach you about facilitating meetings with Robert Mitchell
• HTP-126 Hosting Remote Tabletop games with Roll20 with Nolan T. Jones

 

Games

• Pandemic Board Game (original board game – cooperative)
  • On the Brink expansion
  • In the Lab expansion
  • State of Emergency expansion
  • Pandemic Contagion (stand alone spin-off game)
  • Pandemic The Cure (stand alone dice-based game)
• Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game (cooperative)
  • Castle Ravenloft Board Game
  • Wrath of Ashardalon Board Game
• Lord of Waterdeep (competitive)
  • Scoundrels of Skullport Expansion
• Settlers of Catan

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