Hi<br/><br/>Depending on how many players this attracts would you start characters off already grouped into, say, three or four pairs/groups (ones where the chars are likely to gather together?) I could see you limiting characters to, possibly:<br/><br/>students or teachers at the high school<br/>law enforcement officers at the police station (could be duty cops or backroom clerks)<br/>ordinary joes (perhaps we pick one street in the town and the 'joe' chars all begin together there as they are neighbours)<br/>office/store workers (all the same company)<br/>the local right wing nutcase private militia (well, maybe not but perhaps 2 or 3 survivalist types)<br/><br/>That way we'd get a nice diversity of environments and skills but most important we'd have characters in touch with other characters from the get go.<br/><br/>I'm saying this because I've seen some post-disaster group RPs where characters start widely separated and the game takes ages to get rolling. I'd rather begin at the 'already rolling' stage than RP something equivalent to the first ten chapters of Stephen King's 'The Stand'.