Creating a Team

“Teamwork makes the dream work” was quoted by leadership expert John C. Maxwell in his book by the same name. The actual quote read:

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” 

What does this have to do with adventuring in our table top games?

Well, actually, everything.

A team is a group of individuals working together who collaborate on related tasks to achieve their common goal. Hearkening back to the beginnings of table top roleplaying games the character classes were designed to help build a basic team to solve the adventure.

How many of you have had this conversation

Ok, we’ve got Jerry as our fighter. He can keep the monsters off our back. Susan is playing the Wizard so magic is covered. Gwen is playing a thief to help with locks and traps…so…Steve, it looks like you get to play the cleric.

In this episode Mike, Christina and I are going to talk about teams and specifically building a good team from your players and characters to tell amazing stories.

Christina, have you ever had a bad team in a game?