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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9292337" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>That’s the thing. At a table where everyone wants to be feisty, instigate stuff, interrupt NPCs, talk smack to the authorities, and turn conversations into heated arguments or fights - that works, cause it’s the mode of all the players.</p><p></p><p>But have just one player who doesn’t like that mode, or have just one instigator without restraint, and now it’s an issue.</p><p></p><p>Anecdotally, I’ve never sat at an all-instigator table, but I have sat at a few where the mismatch I’m describing occurred (and was problematic / required special effort by GM to address).</p><p></p><p>To dovetail back the the topic, and what I think @I’m a Banana was getting at, the wrong reward mechanism would compound that issue, but… there might be a way to finesse a reward mechanism that ameliorates the issue, rather than exacerbating it. I don’t think we’ve landed on what that would be yet, but mulling it over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 9292337, member: 20323"] That’s the thing. At a table where everyone wants to be feisty, instigate stuff, interrupt NPCs, talk smack to the authorities, and turn conversations into heated arguments or fights - that works, cause it’s the mode of all the players. But have just one player who doesn’t like that mode, or have just one instigator without restraint, and now it’s an issue. Anecdotally, I’ve never sat at an all-instigator table, but I have sat at a few where the mismatch I’m describing occurred (and was problematic / required special effort by GM to address). To dovetail back the the topic, and what I think @I’m a Banana was getting at, the wrong reward mechanism would compound that issue, but… there might be a way to finesse a reward mechanism that ameliorates the issue, rather than exacerbating it. I don’t think we’ve landed on what that would be yet, but mulling it over. [/QUOTE]
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