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

I put my top tips here after about 15 years of collecting the best tips from hundreds of GMs:

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

• Let the Story Unfold at the Table
• Set Up Situations and Let the Characters Navigate Them
• Be On the Characters Side
• Use Tools and Techniques that Help You Prepare to Improvise
• Focus on your Next Game
• Build Your World, Campaign, and Adventures from the Characters Outwards
• Pay Attention to Pacing
• Focus on the Fiction First and Mechanics Second

The OSR podcast Between Two Cairns does critiques of old school adventures.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6jxIIEDsjAfm5H6n7kcn8f

This article may help:

https://slyflourish.com/getting_started_with_dnd.html

I’d love a go at Crown and Skull by Runehammer. It looks really interesting. I’d like to play it before I run it and, frankly, just don’t have the time.

Yay! Thank you!