Greenstone.Walker
Adventurer
I might describe a fully stocked bookcase, and one of them will be like, "I pull a book from the shelf, what is its title?"
Surely it should be "The Lusty Argonian Maid"?
I might describe a fully stocked bookcase, and one of them will be like, "I pull a book from the shelf, what is its title?"
Here's one:
The party encounters a door.
Player: "What sort of door-handle is it?"
I have been asked this question at least 10 times in the past year, and I have no idea why. It never seems to make the slightest difference in what they do.
Next time, I think I'll say, "an octopus," and see what happens.
"I don't know, what IS it's title?"I might describe a fully stocked bookcase, and one of them will be like, "I pull a book from the shelf, what is its title?"
I tend to get players to roll insight any time I think that an NPC has something ulterior. Most of the time it's pretty innocent, which means me asking for a roll doesn't immediately set my players thumbs prickling. Successful rolls either further an investigation or simply build up the NPC's character.Lots of people seem normal at the surface level, but you still get a gut feeling that there's more than meets the eye. Personally I think the DM should roll insight behind the screen and tell the player the resulting insight gained.
I'm DMing a game. The Druid usually shape shifts into a dire wolf. This time, the druid is shape shifted into a giant spider.
She misses several attacks in a row. I say, "Guess you weren't... Hungry Like the Wolf." Everyone laughs and I queue up Hungry Like the Wolf on YouTube on my phone and proceed to play it and many of us sing along. (Note: I had recently been going through songs from the early '80s and had listened to this song a dozen+ times in the last week. I knew the lyrics inside and out).
I'm singing along to the song and other players are talking to me. Or something. "What's its AC? Do I hit? Can I move over here?" Why are they asking me questions? I have an awesome '80s song to sing!!!
"What? Oh, yeah. You hit it. It's dead. I smell like I sound. I'm lost and I'm found. And I'm hungry like the wolf." You just can't beat lyrics that make no sense like that.
Never curb that enthusiasm!My group asks a few silly things but mostly they are the opposite and don't ask enough questions. They are mostly new players but we are on about our 12th session and I feel they should have a better idea of what to ask and why. I have addressed this with them more than a few times outside gameplay but they still want to run through closed doors without checking first. In the last session they ran from one battle into another room without checking straight into a boss battle. I even asked them "so you just want to run into that room without checking" to which I received a chorus of replies "YES!". You would think the Player Death from the prior week for doing the same thing would curb such enthusiasm.
"Should I do x?"
I have players who ask me for advice on what to do. I just answer by telling them that they can try anything they like, and it's up to them if they think they should or not.