How to Greet a Roster Player

[farfalla]

@Birdie said in How to Greet a Roster Player:

What I cannot do anymore is hand hold a player through every nitty gritty moment.

100%. I’ve never even tried. If I have a plot in mind or something currently ongoing, I generally try to point them in that direction but I view my job as welcome & supply.

[Apos]

I’ve waffled a lot on how to approach this structurally because there’s a pretty wide degree of variation in how much someone wants to be greeted. I’ve definitely seen people overwhelmed with enthusiastic friendliness and bust out a window to escape, never to be seen again, and conversely (and way more commonly) people that feel isolated and never quite figure out how to get involved.

The experience for new players is never far from my mind and something that I’m very unhappy with, so long term it will change dramatically but short term (well shorter), it’ll probably be automated alerts to everyone tied to a character when it comes off the roster to prompt interaction.

[oknow]

If I were greeted in orgs like @Nynrose does I’d probably cry. Happiness tears.

[ten]

Totalled up the number of rosters I’ve applied for – well, not pertinent to the current conversation. Answer is a lot. But. Have experienced all hues of the how to greet a roster rainbow. Not sure what the happy middle is between extreme enthusiasm and isolation.