12 tips for making a great opening scene to your game. How do the Characters meet? Where do they meet? What are they doing? What should you avoid? And why starting out in a tavern isn't bad, but might not always be the best.
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Guest starring Mike, Todd, and Dweebles.
00:00 The Tavern Skit
00:53 Intro
02:08 Starting in a Tavern
03:53 How You Taverns
04:33 Give a Quest
04:55 Inciting Incident
05:32 Other Gathering Places
06:15 Introduce the PCs
09:30 Make them Coworkers
10:02 Meet in Jail
10:33 Shared Interest
11:02 Meet on an Adventure
11:57 They Already Know Each Other
13:39 Start in the Action
17:08 Don't Worry About Tropes
17:59 The Opening Doesn't Really Matter
19:37 Shameless Self-Promotion
20:42 Outro