The Hufflepuff Game: the beginning
The kid looked at me sheepishly. "I know your gaming group is full, but I wanted to ask if, maybe, if there was a player who was kind of inconsistent if you might consider letting me sit in on the game in his place." Now, even if this kid wasn't my daughter's best friend and a pretty decent person, this is a young teenager approaching an adult to whom he is not related and for all intents and purposes is begging for gaming table scraps. And that kind of courage matters to me. I know there are GM's who like to limit the size of their gaming groups in order to maintain some consistency and stability. I get that, and I'm playing in a campaign like that and am enjoying the dynamic of a small, constant group. I'm not judging their decisions--it's their game and they can and should do what they want. But I don't like telling people who are interested in getting to a gaming group but lack the wherewithal to form their own that there's no pl