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Re: What are you giving to new players to get them started?#34441 08 Aug 2012 05:11
Adonai wrote:
Brandon, Do you want to remove the personal contact information (phone number) before I re-host your PDF? I'll link to it from this page: www.thelasombra.com/demoing.htm after you reply. Sure, here you go:
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Re: What are you giving to new players to get them started?#34442 08 Aug 2012 06:00
Dorrinal wrote:
Lonkka's script is very close to what I use when teaching the game. Then again I couldn't keep the Salt Lake City group alive so take that recommendation with a grain of salt... Gentle pestering is my trick for keeping groups alive. Get people's numbers/Facebook/Email and just ask "How are you going? Haven't seen you playing VTES in a while..." It can also be how you convert "Maybes" into "Yes". The other trick I've found, and it has been easier to keep people playing since we changed venues (sure the group dropped off for a while but we've got a stable core of 6-12 now) is... Choose a venue with perks OTHER than VTES. Such as a nice club/bar where you can get drinks for sane prices, or food easily, or desserts, or even just having footy on a TV so you have something to do when you get knocked out a game early. Plus, even gamers appreciate nice furnishings... sometimes it even convinces them to stop thinking of hygiene as a greeting!
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Re: What are you giving to new players to get them started?#34451 08 Aug 2012 08:50
brandonsantacruz wrote:
I find that the games I like best have very short rules books (more like two double-sided pages) and have self-explanatory cards (i.e. Guillotine, Ticket to Ride). Anything I can do to break down VTES into this is a success in my book  Indeed so. Good stuff-carry on! 
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Re: What are you giving to new players to get them started?#34459 08 Aug 2012 09:56
Meetup page is good!
We've done that with Helsinki playgroup for years even if the dates for the weekly games are set: vtes.orava.org/wiki/weeklygames And ofr example Turku playgroups uses facebook to arrange their games. Whatever way works is just fine. Letting people know that enough players to form a table are gathering should help the indecisive minds to attend too.
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Re: What are you giving to new players to get them started?#34509 09 Aug 2012 08:09
Adonai wrote:
PDF'd. Nice -thanks! What I especially like is the fact that you managed to condense it to two sheets, so when printing you can make just one doublesided print. Or print the two pages side by side on one page and the textstill shouldn't be too small to read. Nice touch was addiing the URL to my band's site 
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