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favorite order. If you have a game you purchased but are loathe to run for a group, don't include it on the list; you may do more harm than good WHEN your players decide that's what they want to play, although you don't really want to run it. Did you purchase a game book or supplement for the sake of amusement, or as a resource for another game? You may not want to run that, so don't list it.

If your group are loathe to play anything you've listed as offerings to play, then you might consider spending an afternoon with your friends, doing Za and Dew, watching movies, perhaps even visiting a local game store to look over the games they have on the shelves. Perhaps you'll also want to get together any other games your friends may have and take a look over those to see what you might actually want to run, and they would be interested in playing. Play by consensus in this manner is often much more difficult than having a game plan ready, and it taxes the GM to the point their interest may wane, which means no game, or at least no decent game.

That's alright, get together with your friends, anyway, and just enjoy being friends until someone comes up with a role-playing idea; nothing wrong with that. However, if someone else comes up with the idea, even if you're the GM, see if they want to run the game; after all, it's their game, their idea, so since they were enthusiastic enough to propose it, perhaps they'll also be excited enough to run it.

The bottom line is that your entire group needs to be happy with what you're all going to play. This isn't like playing cards on Thursday night with your buddies, as role-playing takes a lot more strategy on everyone's part to play, but if you can't enjoy playing then it might as well be Thursday night cards.

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