Multiple crews
I am teaching BitD to new players in a brand new gamestore in my town. I have had a surprising amount of interest. I keep the groups capped at four players and we have a zero session where i explain the basics and we make a crew. Then I run them on a short score designed to showcase the system.
I taught two groups already and they both expressed interest in a campaign. Next week I have another group that is going to learn and they have spoken with members of the previous groups and are super excited and already asking if its possible to turn it into a campaign, as well.
So here is my thought and I'm hoping for some feedback. I will run all three groups separately but I think I might drop them all into the same instance of Duskwall without telling them. They will learn about these other crews through gameplay but they won't know it is a player run crew. They will occassionally come across each other's aftermath or hear about some batshit crew who accidently blew something up etc. I might even have one, unknowingly, accept a job to steal an object from one of the other crews...who just stole that object the previous week in their adventure. I see a lot of potential in the arrangement but there could also be some problems. Thoughts? Ideas? Criticism? Your favorite cookie recipe?