Excited About Starter Sets
Moving to a new city is tough for many reasons. One of those is the loss of your in person RPG group. Re-establishing one can be very tricky, but I've done it each time I've moved over the last 3 moves successfully. The trick is to offer to play D&D before you let loose the idea that there are other RPG games out there that you'd like to play. I answered an ad in a sticker shop looking for players for D&D back in December. The group needed a DM. I volunteered and in session 0, I suggested a campaign that would go from 1st to 5th level and end in about 6 months. At which point we'd revisit. Everyone thought that sounded good and we began. This was basically our audition. Not just mine, but theirs. We were all testing out if this group of strangers would transition into friends that would play RPGs. It went really well! The D&D campaign wrapped up nicely and that's when I gave them the pitch: all three Chaosium Starter Sets, back to back. They