Learn the fine art of getting everybody in the same room to play the game! We’ll talk about both types of schedules and attendance policies. And discover why Jessica just won’t let us play.
TYPES OF SCHEDULE
- Regular
- Ad Hoc
- Open Table
ATTENDANCE POLICY
- Mandatory
- Minimum Threshold
No mention of rain dates for regular schedules? I find that having a secondary date scheduled, even if it’s less reliable than the ‘real” weekly session date, does a lot to help make a game more reliable on the whole.
It also helps to have players who are willing to reschedule when circumstances change, which over a long enough time period they inevitably will. Amazingly, there are players out there who are utterly convinced that the logistics of making a game happen in the first place are “not important” and thus refuse to discuss scheduling problems!
I think we all know a Jessica sad to say
I recruited a group of seven players a couple of years ago. Every game was on Sundays at 2 PM, at my home, always. I kept an updated calendar of all the Sundays when I would be able to run a game. If at least four players could play (I asked two days earlier), we played. No sessions were canceled during that two-year campaign. It helped that most scenarios were one or two sessions long, so the players didn’t have to keep track of a complex plot.
I’d also add that websites like when2meet.com and crab.fit can be helpful (particularly for ad hoc scheduling), since everybody just fills out a chart of what times they are available.