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> What's the key to effectively scheduling with a group of more than 4 players?
Others have covered the "find interested players, run an interesting game" aspect.
I'll add that an easy scheduling tool has proven very helpful. I've used free Doodle surveys (https://doodle.com/free-online-survey) a bunch. That way the DM can say "I'm available on these ten days next month, from X to Y time" and each player can just jump in and quickly click which dates they can attend. When the DM sees a critical mass the DM emails/texts/etc the group and locks in the next game date(s).
An alternative method that has worked in my groups is finished each session by trying to schedule the next session. Phones out, calendar apps open, sort it out in a few minutes and commit to it.
Lastly, a great system I've used as a player and DM is to make it very clear that "if the majority can make it, we're playing." If 3 players from a 5-6 player group can make it, game on. Trying to find a date where every player can attend is too much work. Majority rules.
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Avec le subreddit r/jeuxvideo on continu d'organiser de temps en temps des petits événements sur des jeux multi-joueurs auxquels tous ceux qui le souhaitent peuvent participer.
Pour le prochain, j'aimerais votre avis pour choisir le jour de la semaine idéal pour l'organiser. Pour ça c'est simple, j'ai fait un Doodle : https://doodle.com/poll/cxcb82tngdyzrdkv
Il vous suffit de cocher les jours de la semaines qui vous conviennent. Les dates ne sont là que parce que Doodle nous force à en choisir, n'y faites pas attention.
Hésitez pas également à nous rejoindre sur le sub et le Discord. Avant l'E3 c'est assez calme mais pendant on aura surement plein d'annonces sur lesquelles débattre. On fera probablement des méga-thread sur les conférences aussi.
Played an awesome series with Ben (really nice dude btw). Really back and forth. Took a 2-1 lead but instead of playing games 4 and 5 I just got to watch my opponent play them.
Anyone who says "people just need to learn to adapt" should be forced to play against Nix-Ox every single game on ladder for eternity. Then they can learn that even putting cards like Withered Hand Cultist, Garnag, or Deathpriest doesn't stop the deck consistently. Nothing does. He went from (essentially) empty board to an army of 5/5s and cleared my board on turn 7. There is no counter play for that.
Drain Vitality has to be nerfed. Nix-Ox has to be adjusted. This shit is ridiculous.
As a temporary measure, you can check our Jele's petition to ban it from tournaments until the card is officially nerfed here: https://doodle.com/poll/rdk3dau4h5q9r3ch
A doodle poll might help. It does the first part of what you're describing (you send out a schedule of your availability, and parents select which slots line up with their schedule), but you'd have to do the sorting manually. Or, you could just have each parent sign up for ONE slot and then you would have your schedule generated, but you may hit a snag if a parent doesn't have any availability with open slots that are left.
Use a Doodle Poll or something similar (there are a lot of different types of schedulers). Everyone can put in their availability and see what other people’s availability is.
Also, NTA.
I have 5 players with VASTLY different schedules. Trying to pin them all down individually became a nightmare so I resorted to using https://doodle.com for scheduling. I put up a poll of my availability and then wait for their votes to come in. If one person can't make it we go forward and play and one of my PC's mechanically plays the missing character and when necessary I do the RP.
Sadly, it's not a PERFECT scenario; I've been trying to schedule our next session for almost a month now. I work weekends, one person is a 9-5er that works like an hour away from where we play depending on traffic, one guy whose schedule can just magically change at the whim of their boss, one guy who pretty much can always make it, one guy who.... I don't even know what they do really but has some fluctuating HARD commitments that block off days, and a person who can usually make things work. So there's not a lot of overlap, but doodle has significantly reduced the headache on my end, but schedules being what they are it hasn't really increased how often we get to play.
So now that the tariffs are gone and the deficit minimized, we won't have inflation anymore /s
It's obvious to anyone with eyes that the current inflation is largely due to demand out pacing supply because of the supply chain crisis. All those ships sitting in San Francisco bay are real. The back up is so bad they had to make a "Safety and Air Quality Area" for them to stay at so that people don't see them. Its like when they ask you to pull into another lane at a drive through while they make your order.
The struggle is real. I present to you two options:
Together with your DM and the rest of the players during your next session set a day and time, and do that every week or every other week (or however often you gather to play). You can do it every session OR preferrably just say, for example, every other saturday at 7pm we play.
Use Doodle. Super easy to use and free web app to quickly organize dates and times for a gathering. Takes just a few minutes to learn it, and the first couple of days or times you might have to bother them to actually fill it in if they're that lazy, but after using it just a few times it'll help a TON to plan future sessions.
Good luck!
You should create an actual poll.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/online-polls/
I don't do these, here are the top 3 free ones I found on google, one is bound to be actually free. :P
ooh! you should put up a link to a doodle poll or when2meet!
I would do it, but lately I'm a bit busy and don't want to go AWOL while coordinating for others.
TORONTO - AASPN Social Mixer Coming Soon!
Asians in the Americas Support and Professional Network (AASPN) is hosting a social mixer soon, and we would like to know which dates work for you!
Please check out the doodle poll below and fill out which dates you're available:
https://doodle.com/poll/2yskds6z2irrf8sq
If you would like to get updates about this and future events, please go to our website and sign up for our (low-volume) mailing list:
You can see photos of our last events on our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/aaspn
ABOUT US:
Asians in the Americas Support and Professional Network (AASPN) is a professional organization and support group aimed at advancing Asian and Asian-America/Canadian causes on multiple fronts. Our group was formed out of a mutually recognized need among friends for solutions to issues of media and cultural representation; systematic discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere; and other serious concerns obstructing the Asian community. We hope that by fostering professional relationships and a healthy dialogue around such issues, we can help ameliorate these problems.
Just wanted to let everyone know the TMI sub has put together a small fundraiser for Culadasa that is going to be used to set up a community video chat with him. Anyone who would like to join in on the chat is welcomed. I'll post an update once we officially decide on a time. In the meantime, you can submit your availability here and we will use it to determine the best time for the most members of the community to join.
This saturday I will be creating a thread for people to submit their questions, so please think of any questions you may need answered. We will prioritize the most up-voted questions during our chat with Culadasa, but we'll try to get to all of those that we can.
Also, even though the fundraiser has hit it's goal, we are hoping to make this a recurring thing so if you'd like to help out and have the means, please feel free to do so. It will be used to do another video chat with him, or something else that benefits both him and the community (pending a vote).
We keep it as a standing weeknight- every Wednesday. The general rule is if we play if 3/4 of the party can attend and make up some mildly plausible reason why that character wouldn’t have been with the party for that session’s adventures.
Another tool we’ve used for ad hoc gatherings is doodle poll
Literally my group. I FULLY understand your struggles as this is what my group is dealing with as well. And after dealing with it for many months by myself, man I am exhausted so thank you. It seems like a lot of people use google sheets and doodle.com for scheduling so I'll take a look. Thank you!
I was in the same position as you recently. The first thing I tried was using Doodle to figure out what times work for everyone. You can use a spreadsheet or other site instead, the important part is that everyone lays out the times that work for them instead of slowly shooting down options until you find what works. In addition, sending reminders a day or two before helps.
However, finding a time that works for everyone could leave sessions over a month apart, and that's not even touching sudden cancellations. There's always something going on, and it's not an insult if your players prioritize other parts of life over D&D. What I have found is that people respond much better to a set schedule. For instance, I run every 2 weeks as long as I have at least 3 players available. Some D&D is better than no D&D, and you don't need to all be present. If sessions are a regular thing, people are less likely to forget about them (and anecdotally, seem more willing to schedule around them instead of the other way around). Just make a schedule and stick to it.
Interested? I'll organize something.
Will probably be in Zurich, Bern, Basel or Luzern.
https://doodle.com/poll/4axt9ynghu43gp3n
Edit: Bern (train station) at 15:15, for questions text me.
Edit2: pic (should be a snoo on that paper lol)
I suspect that your players don't really want to play anymore but are afraid to tell you. It might be that the game means a lot more to you than it does to them and they are afraid to disappoint you by quitting. Try to be firm with scheduling and see if that changes anything. I use https://doodle.com/ for scheduling, but you could do the same thing with a shared calendar or spreadsheet. Choose a frequency of play that is acceptable to all players and then pick game dates in advance based on the greatest availability of players. Don't offer to change the date once it's been set, but let players know that it's okay for them to miss sessions if they have other things going on. If there are some players who really want to play, they will show up. If there are players who really don't want to play, they'll always have something that keeps them from attending. If you have too few regular players, you'll need to recruit a new player or two. Adding new players will change the group dynamic so that the players who weren't really interested in playing will lose interest. Players who really want to stay in the hobby will find a way to fit it into their schedules.
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My old group that was a bit more westmarches style (still only had a couple of DMs, but lots of players) had a lot of success using doodle. A DM would set up a doodle with their availability and the players would mark which of those days they could play. If enough people could make the same day, that became the next play session.
It's sort of schedule chaotic as you can't plan a reoccurring game day, but when that is already a problem, doodle was a pretty good solution. Best of luck to you and your scheduling woes.
Not sure this will exactly fit your needs, but it allows multiple people to input their availability and then shows the best times, especially across time zones.
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I made a doodle for tracking which days people can play at. If your planning on coming to the game next weekend put which days you can play at. https://doodle.com/poll/iq7ntn3qvrpscngp
If your problem is just finding days that work, you can use doodle.com. You just suggest a bunch of days, everyone enters which ones work for them, you get a nice little table telling you who can play on what day.
If they just don't respond to your messages or never seem to have time to play, there's a chance that they're either very, very busy or, more likely, that they maybe aren't that interested in playing DnD compared to other things they have going on (or both). There's nothing wrong with that but you might need to find some other people to play with.
My suggestion would be to throw out a doodle poll, see what days work for the people who respond and, depending on the number, see if any of your friends are interested in trying DnD. I obviously don't know your friends, though.
I used Discord for between session chats (and actually it's great the players can ask me questions about character development and it tends to spur deeper characters for everybody). It has voice chat as well for when things get really complicated. and then we run sessions through roll 20. if i need to check availability i use doodle.com. It's fantastic in it's simplicity, and if you have multiple times available you can do it survey style.
Serious question: Would people be interested in an Egyptian Hieroglyphic Duolingo? I made a simple poll. Please answer even if your answer is no so I can get a broad sample of opinions. If enough people are interested then I can use this to try to make it happen.
Depends on what you mean by "collaborative" scheduling. Do you mean trying to find a time that works for everyone for a single meeting? If so, Doodle is the best tool I've found for that.
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Here's the Doodle for our team! I figure evenings were the best bet, also don't worry so much about the specific days, it's more for the day of the week.
So, the date for the meetup is the 1st of October. Now for the time! I'd say it is open-ended, but we gotta decide when to start ^^ feel free to join the doodle, even if you didn't take part in the first one
https://doodle.com/poll/uczzxvwndz2955fm?utm\_source=poll&utm\_medium=link
Bei der Ankündigung des Themas des ersten Stammtisch-Vortrags („Linguistisch fundierte Kritik am generischen Maskulinum“) haben wir nicht erläutert, wieso wir dieses Thema für wichtig halten, obwohl innerhalb unseres Vereins und unserer Online-Foren sowieso schon eindeutig die Meinung vorherrscht, dass das generische Maskulinum nicht geschlechtsneutral ist. Das Problem ist, dass die Diskussion um das generische Maskulinum im deutschsprachigen Raum meist sehr ideologisch geführt wird, wobei beide Seiten der Debatte häufig auf der Grundlage von Behauptungen argumentieren, die aus linguistischer Sicht nicht haltbar sind. Um dem entgegenzuwirken, werde ich in diesem Vortrag zuerst die rein linguistischen Fakten zum generischen Maskulinum erläutern und mit anderen sprachlichen Phänomenen vergleichen, und danach erläutern, wie auf Grundlage dieser Fakten dargelegt werden kann, dass das generische Maskulinum nicht als Mittel für geschlechtsneutrale Kommunikation taugt.
Es ist weiterhin möglich, an dem Doodle zur Terminfindung für unseren ersten Online-Stammtisch teilzunehmen: https://doodle.com/poll/iw4c7m2izmh6vufb
>Yes, it's still open. I set up a discord chat at https://discord.gg/g3rSD9VN to discuss this idea further. I also created a doodle poll to align on a first meeting time at https://doodle.com/poll/azgb526d88xkwqza?utm\_source=poll&utm\_medium=link#calendar
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>I picked the Sep 5-11 week for the first meeting, please select as many options as possible that would work for you. Thanks!
We make doodles to find a time to play about once a month. It is very difficult to get 5-6 people to all be available at the same time for several hours more often than that.
I use Doodle to schedule meetings when there's a lot of people with different schedules involved. It lets everyone vote on what dates and times work best for them and then shows the most popular options.
POLL FOR DRAFT DATE
Fill this out! These are just start times. Sorry it is long. Just need to find when you are all free. Hopefully we can find a time for everybody!
TORONTO - AASPN HANGOUT COMING SOON
Asians in the Americas Support and Professional Network (AASPN) is hosting a social mixer soon, and we would like to know which dates work for you!
Please check out the doodle poll below and fill out which dates you're available:
https://doodle.com/poll/2yskds6z2irrf8sq
If you would like to get updates about this and future events, please go to our website and sign up for our (low-volume) mailing list:
You can see photos of our last events on our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/aaspn
ABOUT US:
Asians in the Americas Support and Professional Network (AASPN) is a professional organization and support group aimed at advancing Asian and Asian-America/Canadian causes on multiple fronts. Our group was formed out of a mutually recognized need among friends for solutions to issues of media and cultural representation; systematic discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere; and other serious concerns obstructing the Asian community. We hope that by fostering professional relationships and a healthy dialogue around such issues, we can help ameliorate these problems.
Ok. I know this. All of us knows this. (The players as well.) I can 100% sympathize.
The best I can say is that you use Doodle, and hope nothing goes off track.
(Also, I think that the flair of this post should be changed to "Out of Game".)
Hahaha guess we were both eager--I made one too. Disregard mine then guys.
Here is the scheduling doodle I made: Here is the scheduling doodle for the next session: https://doodle.com/poll/zzy478iae5ypwhkr I thought we could say the top 2 voted could be the next 2 sessions (separate weeks of course), so we won't have to do another poll. What do you think?
Avec Doodle l'autre solution est d'inverser lignes et colones :)
Mais ca ne fonctionne que avec un nombre de participants pré- determiné :
exemple par ici : https://doodle.com/poll/6w2gskzx94wepqqt
Pour le faire :
- crée le sondage avec un colonne par participant
- ajoute en participants les choix de base
- les participants peuvent ajouter des choix et modifier la ligne choix de leur choix !
I found a site that allows for anonymous calendar coordination, so I made a calendar here - please put in what works for your schedule:
Roll20 is helpful to run a campaign online. It has boards, character sheets and a bunch of other features.
Discord is also useful for communicating.
Doodle helps everyone pick a day when they're available.
Hi /u/LazyRectangle
Just you, but there are your links AMA https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGppO1CrBBtIRRqJJE1yBBMEnNlGyaVxfr9MMyxSyYq1mAFg/viewform?usp=send_form
3# Community Meetup Europe (Belgium) Vote for the date https://doodle.com/poll/25wztyrgp73hpbw9
of course Tuna couldn't be bothered to answer a few questions... so Tuna
It's probably not too late to volunteer for the tear down shift tomorrow if you want to see the show for free and hang out with the kittehs
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Hi all, sorry for the delay, was on vacation. You are receiving this message if you qualified for the WW Tournament Finals or have a top 3 substitute spot if scheduling doesn't work out, but unfortunately for those three, that's why this message is reaching everyone.
Could you all please visit this Doodle link and check the box for each upcoming weekend date you may be available for the WW Final. Important: Please check the box even if you only have one 2-hour block of availability. I will send a further doodle out later to narrow down the exact time. i.e, don't uncheck a box just because you have to be somewhere at 3pm that day.
https://doodle.com/poll/i6m8ddx9iathe4rf
Thanks!
> synchronization with android calendar, privacy taken in high regard.
this triggers a conflict. calendar apps on android either sync with google calendar or they collect sensitive information like your location or the whole contact list by themselfs (and you probably don't know what and to whom this is sent). if privacy is that important you have to cancel the android sync.
doodle is a reliable service, they do not sell your profile. but it's more expensive than your budget limit.
set up your own service, that's easy.
I run a game that sounds very similar to this. For scheduling, make things a little easier on yourself by trying out something like Doodle. It's been a lifesaver for scheduling.
As far as all the work you put in, I've personally found that playing online tends to drop the immersion. My in-person game is just so much more cohesive, conversing, friendly, and I have a strong feeling it's because we're all in the same room. Not much you can do about that other than get together, sadly.
If it's something across several parties when several dates have been suggested and there has always been one to say "no" then I normally route for doodle.
Edit: It's a Swiss/German company and very well known around here. It may confuse some people not from a german speaking part of the world.
Mine is a little odd to explain. It's called CalThing.
It's not a program per se, but a very simple spreadsheet template for LibreOffice.
It's based on a web service I saw at one time, but haven't been able to find, so I re-created it in LibreOffice.
Basically, you have a row for every person coming to an event, and a column for each day. If person X can come to whatever event on day Y, you change the content of the column for that day, for that person, to 1. If they can maybe come, you use 0.5.
The very top row shows each day, and how many people can come each day, and you would choose the day with the highest number.
Example. In this case, you can see Tuesday is a terrible day, only RMS is available, but Thursday is great; everyone but John can come that day.
If you know what the web service this mimics is called, please let me know.
EDIT: Thanks to _supert_ for pointing out the original service it's based on, Doodle.
Ideally we'd have 1 DM (permanent or rotating) and 3-5 PCs, but the more the merrier. Check out the link to the event and see if it's something you're interested in. It's tomorrow night at 8 PM at Guardian Games. Please RSVP via PM if you're interested, as I've already closed the Doodle poll.
Aw, I'm sorry to hear that a fellow DM of Pittsburgh is having troubles in the realm.
I know that the uncertainty of life can be a nuisance for the consistency of D&D. I recommend having something fun you can do with the rest of the party or just yourself on nights where you find yourself without the ability to play. I have board games for when one member is a no call/no show and League of Legends for nights no one seems to be able to make it.
Just try to make the best of it and make sure that the real you is having a good time whether in D&D or other things.
How do you currently schedule games with them? I personally like using sites like doodle.com to make sure that everyone agrees to a time before buying snacks and stuff for that night.
If you really are committed to the path of vengeance, just have them swap bodies with a level 5 party for a session. The level 5s are suddenly godlike in strength and your now feeble party must get their bodies back before they try to slay Tiamat or overthrow an empire or get their bodies destroyed.
So looks like some good numbers are keen on the dinner, around 18 or so. Just need to figure out a date now... have set up a Doodle which is linked below. I'm thinking Thursday is usually a good day but have got options for Weds-Friday. Cheers
Oh wow, that sounds great! I'm gonna check out the artists and events on there. I couldn't see information about the shop on the website you linked?
I would definitely make the trip though!
Also, feel free to join us for an initial meet if central London isn't too much of a journey - doodle poll for the date/time here.
I've set up a doodle poll to find a time for an initial meet somewhere tbc in Central if you're still interested!
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b48V5Vgb
I think you're right for a proper event, but I've set up a doodle poll to find a time for an initial meet for a chat somewhere tbc in Central if you're still interested!
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b48V5Vgb
Great that there is interest - I tried to set up a group chat so we could actually organise an initial meet up [I think pa_px is right about an eventbrite for a proper event, but not for an initial meet for a chat]. I am new to reddit so don't know why it won't let me do it.
So instead, I've set up a doodle poll - https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b48V5Vgb for an initial meeting somewhere tbc in central
If you fill it out, it'll tell me which time most people can do and we'll go with that!
Hope this works as a method!
James.
Does everyone use outlook for email and calendar? If everyone uses the basic office suite, you should be able to see availability when scheduling.
I volunteer for a couple of things where have to schedule large meetings. I use a doodle poll for those - https://doodle.com/en/
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I use Doodle for work and it does a pretty basic job as the free version:
I think what might help you is the Booking Page feature. It will automatically block off times/days if you link up your appropriate calendars. The one thing that I'm trying to get it to do but can't is to have a specific date have a separate time from the other days. Their support is pretty quick though.
Ovviamente i metodi con cookie/sessione hanno lo svantaggio che perdi tutto se sei cancelli i cookie o se vai su un altro browser.
doodle.com ha un approccio inusuale (se lo usi senza registrarti): ti chiede l'indirizzo mail e quando crei un doodle ti manda a quell'indirizzo un "link di amministrazione" che in sostanza è un link di login per gestire il doodle.
è un po' come un "account light".
Köszi a kezdeményezést!
Ha gondolod, szívesen segítek majd a szervezésben, amikor már nem fix időpontban lévő eseményt nézünk, hanem saját összejövetelhez mérjük fel a terepet. A Doodle nevű oldalt szoktam ilyesmihez használni, azzal flexibilisebb pollokat lehet létrehozni: mindenki bejelölhet több időpontot is, ami jó neki, meg van "talán" opció is.
Great idea :) Everyone who's responded so far sounds great tbh and I am down to meet over Zoom. I set up a Doodle poll here actually if anyone else is interested: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/Qe17P0Vb
If we can find a time when most people can make it, that'd be awesome! You can put your reddit names and I can send the Zoom link to each of you by PM. Excited to see how this pans out :)
I would suggest https://doodle.com/en/ for scheduling dates where as many people can join as possible :) It's helped me in the past.
Just make it an open invite, let people know who's invited, and perhaps pick a spot where there's plenty to do. Those who have a problem with it can simply not join.
When i was little, we went on vacations with a flock of friends, easily consisting of 20-30 people or so. Many of those where families with kids, which was great for me and my Sister as those were our friends and we loved hanging out together. It was amazing. We went to several spots in Europe on road trip. All 20+ of us just road tripping together. There was plenty of hanging out together as a flock, as well as splitting into smaller groups and doing and seeing different things all depending on what our preferences were. If I remember correctly, we'd even be at different hotels at times (some people had more money than others).
Sometimes the families would just have private sightseeing time. But we'd mostly all meet for dinner together in the evenings.
It worked really well.... I just think you have to set expectations and not make things too rigid :)
If you go on camping, pick a spot with lots of amazing nature sightseeing to see, and let people split in whatever groups they want. You can make it a point that everyone meets up for, and makes dinner together....
Just remember to make everything opt-in, and if someone doesnt want to come because of someone else, dont pressure them.
The kids will mostly keep each other busy. That's at least what happened in my case. But i also live in a different country, where people dont feel like kids need to be under constant supervision (which I seriously appreciate).
idk if this is going to help, but there’s a spendition going out of munich tmrw, see https://doodle.com/poll/g36rmesqcnh795qp?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link#table Im sure they’d be happy to take you alongside other people. Slava Ukraini <33
I've been running Masks of Nyarlathotep for nearly a year now, and I've run multiple campaigns in the past. Because of my players being on multiple coasts, I run everything through Roll20. So instead of a keeper screen, I have the rulebook pulled up in a tab and bookmark the pertinent stuff (combat, spells, etc.). After a few sessions, I've had to utilize this less and less; as others mention, you get better at the rules over time.
As far as remembering what happened previously, I keep a notebook and jot down quick notes as to what happened in the previous session—nothing excessive or highly detailed, but rather a few key words that will trigger my memory as to what happened last time. The nice thing about a module like MoN (my first campaign involving a module, too) is that you can mark where your investigators are, and the flowcharts can help figure out where they're likely to go, giving you time to prepare for what's to come next.
One other thing for organization purposes: getting everyone to the table, whether it's virtual or IRL, is extremely difficult, especially as people begin to resume their normal lives. I use Doodle to help establish which days people are available and select the best one(s) for our upcoming sessions. It's pretty easy: you select the dates on a calendar on which you're available, and invite the other participants to select all the days they're free out of those dates. It's been a godsend, and I don't know why the GMs in games I participate don't do it, as well.
Kinda wordy, but I hope that helped!
Provide me with an example of a time you had to collaborate with a team to solve an issue for an executive.
As an admin professional, I am always proactively collaborating with teams to help solve issues. One recent example involved....
What strategies do you use in coordinating a meeting with many stakeholders with varying calendars?
Coordinating meetings with many stakeholders is something I enjoy because it allows me to use my organization and problem-solving skills. To get an accurate picture of availability from multiple stakeholders (with sometimes multiple timezones), I create quick Doodle polls to executives and/or their EAs that can easily be filled out. For time-sensitive meetings, it's important for me to jump on a quick phone call or send an IM to get a response as soon as possible. Working with other executive assistants and developing a relationship with them would also allow me to coordinate meetings quickly and efficiently.
Good luck!
Are your players living together? If not, don't expect them to do something as a group on their own.
My suggestion: Find regular scedules that fit for you. Like every second week monday evening. Give them a few things to choose. Every one should say what dates fit for him.
You can use a tool like https://doodle.com/en/ .
If 4 players agree to one date, you've found your termin!
My bad, I should have elaborated a little bit more on this lol
The reason I think async is the future for remote (and therefore a big part of the future of work) is because of how rampant zoom fatigue has become.
Every day we hear millions complain about zoom fatigue, meeting fatigue and so on. A lot of people right now tend to believe that turning off cameras, switching to phone calls or even going back to in person meetings is the solution here but in reality, it is a band-aid solution.
The real problem here is meeting frequency; virtual meetings rose by 613% and one-to-one meetings rose by 1,230%.
https://doodle.com/en/resources/research-and-reports/state-of-meeting-report-2021/
Async has proven to reduce meetings but completely eliminate wasteful meetings and is therefore the proper solution. With people attending less meetings they can actually get their work done.
In fact, out of all the meetings in a month, around 32hrs of the total meeting time is found to be wasteful. If businesses right now are functioning totally fine even with 32 hours being wasted, then imagine if we could completely eliminate those unneeded meeting hours with async. Most jobs that hold meetings are basically giving us a free pass to transitioning to a 4 day work week and that's just by eliminating the wasteful hours WITHIN meetings.
If we could eliminate meetings as a whole leaving only the important meetings like team building, culture building, personal 1-1 meetings etc. then we would be able to save so much time and spend it on our families, hobbies, friends, etc.
I was thinking to just schedule a meetup and hope it generates discussion, rather than waiting for discussion to generate itself.
Here's a doodle with 2 meeting times Sunday 12th Dec, 10.30 - 2pm Sunday 19th Dec, 10.30 - 2pm
https://doodle.com/poll/85ppqp6wimsr39rz?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
Upcoming ride: Fall yearly Flemish Ardenne ride
Date: 11-14 Nov (Vote https://doodle.com/poll/rbesax3656yp5wsi?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link)
Location: Carpool Deinze - Steenweg Deinze 31, 9810 Nazareth
Meet-up at: 10:30
Departure: 11:00
GPX file: https://easyupload.io/d0f8dm
Reddit post: RidePlanner
So, the date for the meetup is the 1st of October. Now for the time! I'd say it is open-ended, but we gotta decide when to start ^^ feel free to join the doodle, even if you didn't take part in the first one
https://doodle.com/poll/uczzxvwndz2955fm?utm\_source=poll&utm\_medium=link
So, the date for the meetup is the 1st of October. Now for the time! I'd say it is open-ended, but we gotta decide when to start ^^ feel free to join the doodle, even if you didn't take part in the first one
https://doodle.com/poll/uczzxvwndz2955fm?utm\_source=poll&utm\_medium=link
Since several people are only avaiable in October, I decided to make a doodle for October. Anyone interested to join can just take part in the Doodle, I'm positive we will find a date! Concerning the time of the meeting, I'd like to discern that closer to the date itself so that everyone knows their timetables and working hours.
Here ya go:
https://doodle.com/poll/7xsnhgm5k78ztfqm?utm\_source=poll&utm\_medium=link
Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University looking to recruit post-secondary student participants between the ages of 18-50 to participate in a Virtual Reality (VR) study that explores the relationship between various VR platforms and task performance, cognitive load, and self-consciousness (CUREB-B # 112297).
Currently, we only need a few more participants that have a tablet (iPad from the last 2 years or Android tablets capable of running modern 3D games). If you do not have a tablet but still wish to participate, we have one I can lend out for the study if you are in Ottawa (Canada). Please enter a time on this Doodle most convenient for you and I will email you back with more information ( https://doodle.com/mm/anthonyscavarelli/book-a-vr-experiment ). Compensation for your 30-40 minutes of time is a $10 CAN gift card to either Starbucks or Tim Horton’s.
For more information on the study please see the recruitment poster here: https://anthony-scavarelli.com/downloads/RecruitmentMaterials\_2.pdf
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I use Book Like a Boss, and the main reason I chose it was because I was able to snatch a LTD so the price is right
I've spoken to a handful of developers all looking at building a new tool and to help them overcome my biggest gripe, but to my knowledge no one has fixed my largest complaints, and that's around group bookings/availability. It seems that the only solutions in the space are Xoyondo, Doodle, and SurveyMonkey - all of which have UI's that seem to have been created when Geocities was popular.
I'd love a meeting tool that let me send out branded invites with suggestions for time/date slots, let people mark their availability, and let me mark various people as essential vs optional, and have it actually look good (and not cost 40+ mo)
There's tools that allow for everyone to indicate availability so you can see which day or time works for everyone. This is one I've used for non dnd purposes https://doodle.com/create though I'm not sure if it needs an account now (the main page seemed to be a bit different). So you input all of the days and times that work for you, send it out, give them a couple days to respond, and once everyone does (or enough people do, if just one player never gets to it then they don't get a say) you pick a date and stick to it. Tell everyone to make sure that day is good and to plan around it. Tell them you can only do this so many times. If you go through this exercise three times and people keep cancelling last minute, it might be time to reevaluate whether it's worth playing with a group that doesn't care enough.
Really, any time in August works fine. If it's a start-up league though, focus on a time that everyone can actually attend the draft. I use Doodle.com a lot to find a time that works for everyone. Getting everyone involved and invested from the start is the key.
Hi! We’re a budding start-up company and we noticed how committed you are to the food community here on Reddit. Your insight is really valuable to us and we’d love to hear your thoughts on our product that allows you to create custom-made chocolates from the comfort of your own home. We would love to get your opinion on what is important when dealing with chocolate, and integrate your insights into our product before it hits the shelves. Please let us know if this is something you’re interested in or if you have any questions. It would only require a brief Zoom call on your part. You can use this link to find a time that works best: https://doodle.com/mm/lioraomer/book-a-time
Hi! We’re a budding start-up company and we noticed how committed you are to the food community here on (insert social media here). Your insight is really valuable to us and we’d love to hear your thoughts on our product that allows you to create custom-made chocolates from the comfort of your own home. We would love to get your opinion on what is important when dealing with chocolate, and integrate your insights into our product before it hits the shelves. Please let us know if this is something you’re interested in or if you have any questions. It would only require a brief Zoom call on your part. You can use this link to find a time that works best: https://doodle.com/mm/lioraomer/book-a-time
> I'm a (new) DM for some of my friends and coordinating schedules has got to be one of the biggest drains on me for all of this. It's hard enough to find time to meet up with one friend for a few hours let alone coordinating a whole table.
Agree with the group what the minimum number of players is (for my group of 4 we say 3 and there is a heal bot NPC that will step in as needed)
Then use https://doodle.com/ to send a list of options; I usually nudge as needed, but I very rarely need to nudge more than once. Use social pressure to your advantage by nudging in you group dnd chat.
Pick a date from what your players select.
> Related, I've also been struggling with sometimes feeling like I'm the only one that wants to play this game. Especially when I'm the only one attempting to bring the table together and then constantly getting cancellations or rain checks from one person or another because of other commitments.
I have been DM-ing for a little bit now. I know this feeling.
The 2 main questions are
Is it always the same couple of players or is it little bit from everyone?
Do you feel like the reasons suggest you are getting flaked on or genuine issues?
I have one player who has a job that throws up last minute commitments, so I have learnt to expect it.
There's a common tendency for players to think the DM is the de facto administrator of a group, but it doesn't have to be that way. I addressed this stuff in session 0 and I'm happy for it. I addressed stuff like the group's expectations on when we'd play, what would be a quorum of necessary players if there are unavoidable absences, how we'd manage a calendar (I highly recommend Google calendars and Doodle.com polls), how/who would be responsible for tracking loot, and the etiquette of group texts.
Not sure if that means you are interested, but in case. I will see how many are going to show interest in the coming days, and will try to have a meeting with everybody in a few days. It would be great if you could click when you would have time here. https://doodle.com/poll/hh5nfmdqmx86ac8d?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
There's a lot of them actually. Two I've used recently are
https://www.when2meet.com/ - free, easy, simple.
https://doodle.com/en/ - More of a work tool, has pricing because of course it does.
Scheduling is usually a big part of the recruiting process ime, so tools like this tend to get their best use either for additional days or adjusting for RL events.
Our league may interest you. We're looking for 1 or 3 players to fill out a free 10/12-team H2H 9 CAT ESPN league. Draft will take place in the evening (UK) in the week prior to the season opener. If you're joining, please fill out this availability form so we can finalise a draft date.
Looking for 1 or 3 players to fill out a free 10/12-team H2H 9 CAT ESPN league. Draft will take place in the evening (UK) in the week prior to the season opener. If you're joining, please fill out this availability form so we can finalise a draft date.
Our league may interest you. We're looking for 1 or 3 players to fill out a free 10/12-team H2H 9 CAT ESPN league. Draft will take place in the evening (UK) in the week prior to the season opener. If you're joining, please fill out this availability form so we can finalise a draft date.
Our league may interest you. We're looking for 1 or 3 players to fill out a free 10/12-team H2H 9 CAT ESPN league. Draft will take place in the evening (UK) in the week prior to the season opener. If you're joining, please fill out this availability form so we can finalise a draft date.
Looking for 1 or 3 players to fill out a free 10/12-team H2H 9 CAT ESPN league. Draft will take place in the evening (UK) in the week prior to the season opener. Please fill out this availability form so we can finalise a draft date.
New Bee Night is Back!
We're going to get as many NEW PEOPLE together in one place as we possibly can! Complete this doodle by this Friday night for when next week we should play! https://doodle.com/poll/i274q9zm5denpfd2
Looking for veteran community members to lead groups and teach people how to play too!
The event will be held in the community discord! kqbdiscord.com, more information and developments can be found in #community-events.
New Bee Night is Back!
We're going to get as many NEW PEOPLE together in one place as we possibly can! Complete this doodle by this Friday night for when next week we should play! https://doodle.com/poll/i274q9zm5denpfd2
Looking for veteran community members to lead groups and teach people how to play too!
The event will be held in the community discord! kqbdiscord.com, more information and developments can be found in #community-events.
https://doodle.com/poll/436sgcdvx4bb7ny2?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
Click link to doodle (Scheduling platform), then put in Name and time
Update: I'm including a link to a doodle poll for anyone interested in attending a weekly livestream. This will determine the general time frame when we're going to do this. So select time frames that are generally good for you, not just for next week. Thanks!
https://doodle.com/poll/fgtkppnpqskcya5w?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
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If having a regularly scheduled session isn't a possibility, scheduling a week or two ahead of time (or at the end of the session) is a good way to go. When I was running an in person game I used Doodle polls. Once everything got confirmed I would send out the calendar event (remember, android users can't use *.ics).
New Bee Night is Back!
We're going to get as many NEW PEOPLE together in one place as we possibly can! Complete this doodle by this Friday night for when next week we should play! https://doodle.com/poll/i274q9zm5denpfd2
Looking for veteran community members to lead groups and teach people how to play too!
New Bee Night is Back!
We're going to get as many NEW PEOPLE together in one place as we possibly can! Complete this doodle by this Friday night for when next week we should play! https://doodle.com/poll/i274q9zm5denpfd2
Looking for veteran community members to lead groups and teach people how to play too!
If you're interested, please go here and let me know what times work for you.
https://doodle.com/poll/dik5wg322kfh9y4z
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The cost will be $25/week if paid for the year in advance, or slightly more if paid in installments.
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I made a mistake with the original poll--put Sunday instead of Monday, so if you voted already, you may want to check it out again and see if the Monday times work for you.
>https://doodle.com/poll/q89s7hiz4t4bwu53
Just wanted to share a link to a survey to find times for a virtual group chat for people in Lansing interested in making new friends.
So anyone who want to jump in can throw their availability iinto this doodle. If you use your PSN or discord tag as the name ill add you to a chat for it. ^__^ https://doodle.com/poll/idzaf4vgy2k3iaie if for some reason we get more people than we can handle we can split into two groups, maybe make it a race haha.
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You could use Doodle. It's usually for scheduling/ finding one date for an event but you could have members just tick the dates on they're definitely participating. Not sure if they can change their attendance at any time though.
Apparently you can also create a hidden poll so members can't see who's coming if you want more privacy.
You only need the website where members just write down their names but you can also use their app. As for the membership fee, maybe just a spreadsheet?
Don't forget to indicate your preferred time slot for our "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" reading group's online peer-support Zoom sessions. Click here on the doodle poll to indicate your weekly availability:
https://doodle.com/poll/8v7uw89e5hbyq55f
NOTE:
To participate in the book club, you DO NOT have to participate in the zoom sessions. These are a supplemental tool meant to enrich the experience, provide peer support, and a source of validation and compassion for our respective experiences.
Similarly, to participate in the online zoom sessions you DO NOT have to be following the book club. The online zoom sessions will be structured such that you can come and benefit from participating without feeling like you need to have read the book to follow the discussions.
The zoom sessions will be open only to people who identify as trauma survivors, or who are curious about exploring their trauma history with us. If you do not belong to either category we will firmly but kindly ask you to leave the discussions.
Ok, let me tell you the secret to turn Belgians (colleagues or otherwise) into friends. Ready?
Food. The secret is food. Ask them to go out to eat something in the evening (be prepared to go during the week as weekends are probably almost always full). Set up a doodle for a date: https://doodle.com/create (that way they are kinda obligated to fill in some dates, they can't just say 'no I can't this weekend')
For Kortrijk ask if they know Ribs & beer, if they don't, tell them they have the best ribs (slow cooked or otherwise), if they do they'll want to go anyway, (you have to be really unlucky if nobody of your colleagues like ribs). Big plus is they have a lot of different beers, so that'll open them up some more!
Do this a couple of times (do they like asian food? Ocho Dynasty. Do they like burgers? De burgemeesters in Wevelgem or Paul's boutique in Kortrijk. Do they like fancy places? Parkhotel in Kortrijk). Have some time around noon? Go to a frietkot nearby and eat there (every belgian loves his frieten)! Or a pitta place or a pizza place!
I've worked at 3 different places and always made friends with the group I did this with. Good luck!
Hello, this is Noobsauce9001 with some hard facts.
If players should have the time for a game, but don't make it, it means they probably weren't interested in playing with that group. They would make the time for it otherwise.
That, or no one is using scheduling software like Doodle to find a common available time: https://doodle.com/create
"Bob's busy Saturday....well Joe is busy Sunday...." never fret over such things anymore!