Mike (Sly Flourish)

Really fun video. Getting a consistent group together is probably the hardest part of running a game. If you can enjoy a game with even as few as one or two players, that can work well.

I use a few tricks to keep groups going:

• Have six full-time players.
• Have two “on call” players – these are players who are interested but might not be able to commit regularly and are willing to jump in when a spot is open.
• Run with as few as four. This means it takes five people cancelling before you can’t run a game.
• Run at a consistent time each week.
• Run shorter games – I go for 3 hours.

That’s helped me keep multiple groups going for ten years with one group consistent for about 20 years.

I wrote an article with my thoughts on running mysteries here:

https://slyflourish.com/running_investigations_and_mysteries.html