Playing as a team - 14.2
Playing in a fixed group
In one line: In a fixed group the advantage is not knowing each other, it is agreeing beforehand: who leads, who plays where, how you communicate, what you usually do. A few clear agreements are worth more than lots of improvisation.
The group's advantage
Playing with friends or a fixed group is more enjoyable, but the real advantage is something else: you can agree beforehand. With strangers every round is improvised; as a group you can decide in advance who leads, who plays where, how you communicate and what you do in the most common situations.
Many groups waste this advantage: they play together but each on their own, everyone talks at once, roles change every game. The result is a team that knows each other but is not organized.
This chapter explains which agreements you need and how to build them, without turning every game into a practice session.
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