SPOILER ALERT TO MY ADVENTURERS! The following post contains spoilers for the up and coming campaign. You may want to avoid this post and join me in a future one.
We have a date and time for our third session. It’s the last weekend of October. It might have been earlier in the month, but we had to take in to account a honeymoon for two of the group to happen.
Before this next session all but one of the group have to level up their characters. So I have offered to meet up with any that want to and help them level up their character.
At the weekend a friend asked if he and his son could join the group. I said I was happy for them too, but it had to be a group decision. So I put the question to the group in our Messenger chat area. All but one responded in the positive. The one that didn’t respond had seen the discussion and remained silent. They didn’t even confirm they could make the date set either. So I posted that I was assuming they didn’t object to new members joining.
I’m happy with how I handled this. I didn’t want to emulate the events that saw me leaving the previous group. New players to a group has to be a group decision.
It means our party of adventurers will be 7 strong. A tad on the large size. But as has been previously discussed on this blog, that may drop to 6.
Sadly the date for session 3 means the new players won’t join until session 4. Which means level wise they will be behind by a level and a half. So combat encounters will need a little more planning.
Session 3 would have been a great session plot wise to introduce new characters. With the party escorting the tribute from Queen’s Cove to Mintarn, having them join as part of that guard would have made sense plot wise.
But session 4 will be in Mintarn. So I’ll have to find a way to introduce them to the party before they go off on the adventure hook chosen in session 3.
It also means I need to meet up with the new players to go over character creation, talk back stories, and how we will introduce them to the others.
In the next planning post I’ll look at Mintarn.