Taking the leap you mean? We are about 2 years old with about 60+ members. (edit: Just recounted, growing fast)
We really only do BG3 but have dabbled in FromSoftware to pass the time. Sometimes we have movie nights, or Youtube Nights where everyone shows their favorite youtube clips, hilarious reviews of bad Steven Seagal Movies, and clips of comedians.
We don't do any other RPG's currently.
This is great. Camaraderie keeps people coming back. Those are freikin GREAT ideas!
I wish your guild the BEST. Your success is BG3's success.
Its good to keep it simple. Its more challenging the more games that you add to your guild, and there is a LOT more back-end time investment and planning to ensure there is flow. For example, we are fairly uniform in our game chapters. If someone is playing Neverwinter, and they want to start playing DDO, they don't have to fill out a new app, they just say hello in the DDO Roster & Recruitment section and BAMM they're in! The new chapter is ALREADY breaking the ice welcoming him/her before anyone meets up in game.
SOLID. Yeah, from guild leader to guild leader - much respect is deserved. You set your play environment and warned incoming members that you WILL be monitoring them. Perfect. After that, it's on them. If they obviously break a rule that affects other members negatively and you can't or don't wish to coach them based on the severity of what happened, they fired themselves
I like it but this is D&D. A Dungeon Master narrates!
(Just having some good-natured fun with this rule) But yes, I get it. FUN is the purpose of D&D, so everyone that reads your rules should GET IT. If you need to tweak something in the future, you will Im sure. This is a newish kind of rule and you must have already had to deal with the scenario. Not everyone likes the Howard Stern Show, or the Tonight Show, or the Bill Burr stand up routine!
People are here for a D&D experience. BG3 will require GOOD party leaders that encompass the greatest parts of D&D and coop MMOs and even RPGs without going overboard while sticking to the Motus Operandi of your guild rules. This is what I feel a guild can add MOST to the greater BG3 player community. A family of close-knit gamers who's playstyles and same goals are similar or at least on the same wavelength. We have also discovered that enjoyment adds to REPLAYABILITY and keeps guildies coming back for MORE. Thats a good thing for everyone.
Insubordination and humor.
Yes, in today's society, we felt the need to insert these elements right into our guild rules. When you are playing with folks around the world with different cultures, customs and language/vocabulary differences, we found it beneficial to lay out some guidelines on what is expected and where one can get themselves into trouble. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get into every possible scenario, its a case-by-case basis. Now, this very seldom comes up, but if we have a guildie that broke one of these, then they likely have broken a HANDFUL of other rules and its time to either coach them on what is ok and not ok, or maybe we have to even to part ways. WE have a TON OF FUN in Tyrs. And for the most part its because we set the parameters of what is going too far. If you make fun of someone because they take anxiety meds and find it difficult to speak up, that would absolutely violate our humor rule. What might seem funny to one person, might hurt the other person very, very badly. Tyrs Paladium WILL NOT tolerate that type of behavior.
