I think there is a misunderstanding here. My suggested use of a generic password is not to exclude any players (rookies or otherwise) who want to play in the campaign. It is simple mechanism to make it clear to both players that this is a campaign game. I guess that BlueDragon wants players to make a conscious decision to join the campaign rather than stumbling into a game and then finding out it was part of a campign afterwards. Generic passwords can act as a filter to stop players who have not yet made a decision to join the campaign from taking games set-up for campaign play. The generic password should be something straight forward like 'campaign' - it does not require any policing at all.

I am actually against the idea of 'secret' passwords for this campaign as no games should be exclusive.