Lemmee see... I got a group that will meet every too weeks, but the half the table that insists on that attenuated schedule also don't show up for... reasons. This week its a corona-virus lockdown for one player and the other won't show up without her (they are both girls, for whatever that's worth). I do have a new player that insisted he was familiar with RPGs when I invited him, but when he made a character he admitted he'd only seen people playing it at the game store, but he didn't show because he had car troubles and my phone held his text asking for a ride for about 16 hours before delivering it.
So my Unisystem Armaggeddon campaign, which I am surprisingly unethusiastic about despite setting it up, is in week three of character design and pre-planning, which is way too long.
Meanwhile, I'm juggling an issue. I've discovered Hero-Forge (I even ordered a full color model at absurd cost from them, its gorgeous by the way), as a means of getting players (and myself!) to visualize characters (I don't require they buy a model, just design one and send me the link). How hard do I push this passionate idea I have for expanding the imagination... particularly with players who 'play against type'?
So far I've got one character model that was exactly perfect in telling me what my player wanted to play, along with a line of character biography that allowed me to spin his role in teh setting to our mutual satisfaction. I've got my new player who made a... unique... model after makign his character that is bare bones but functional, and a generic D&D thief in greyscale that not only tells me nothing about the character but is also wildly inappropriate for the game in question, and my two unreliables, both of whom love to make (useless to me) cartoon art of their characters who have given me nothing at all.
Great tool, in my opinion, but I get the strong impression that I had hit that too hard, like I used to hit Q&A sessions with players too hard years ago, and it will just irritate the players who just don't care.
So... yeah... the state of my table is, at the moment, wrack and ruin, just waiting for the red dawn.