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I'm good at "flying by the seat of my pants," it happens often in the games I run where the players take an "unexpected path" (not railroaded) and I come up with fun/interesting scenarios very quickly. I'm also good at stealing player ideas (i.e. they mention something in passing that they think...

Very clever way of introducing RPG to new players, I have to applaud you for originality and getting new players involved with a good idea so that they can learn new classes as well. I think it'd be a fun thing to do even with very seasoned players so that they don't get bored (for example if...

Fair enough, I wonder if I can convince my group to do something similar with everyone having another character "in the stable" at some point. I've never done that and it sounds pretty interesting and refreshing, could make campaigning more fun for everyone if they get to pick which character to...

I'd have to second the Fallout Games, they are a lot of fun even if they aren't in the typical "fantasy" genre. They are great games and have huge open worlds to explore. I recently played Two Worlds II, it's a decent enough game, the voice acting is so bad it's funny (which I think it was...

I thought this was a great post from an awesome session. I'm actually very intrigued by your group now and was wondering if you post in the story hour like PirateCat and some of the others or have thought about doing so?

Thanks for the link, looks very interesting and I'll have to get his Dark Sun books now! For anyone else interested you can find the book here at Amazon.

I picked "other" because we use weather in my current game I play in every time we play. Reason being, we are in the jungle and have to do endurance checks, it rains every day and it's hot and very humid. So it actually plays a big part in the current area we are stuck in as a party to explore...

In my current game that I'm playing a Dwarf Cleric in, part of his schtick is to urinate in his flask then cast the "Enhance Water" spell. He's a follower of a god of drink. He also believes in recycling. Anyhow, this did come back to bite me in the arse a bit as I tried to "get back at" and...

Oh okay, I see why now. Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, just take the advice that we've given you so far and check out those links I provided yesterday to you and see if those help them "get into character" better. Another piece of advice I'd like to toss your way is to set the scene as the DM...

Bet you didn't feel like you won the lottery though :P

One of the things I do is use critical hits/fumbles tables in the games I run. I know they aren't for everyone, but this particular instance as just great. The cleric in the group was a follower of one of the gods of nature whose holy symbol was a tree. So the cleric rolls a "1" and then we...

Very good point, perhaps the newer players aren't actually into role playing, since they came from WoW they sound like they just may want to do light role-playing and heavy combat and that's how they feel that the game should be played. Aremis69 : I'd actually ask them how they feel about...

I'd put him in the smurfing blender and smurf him down like a protein drink with my BBSEG (big bad smufing evil guy). Then make him smufing roll up a new smurf.

Tossing out my opinion again. It's true that a player who is intellectually smarter and a better problem solver would probably get into their character better and play it more true to form, so I think it may lend more credence to them having an advantage at the table-top game the same would be...

I've always explained it like a part in acting, they are assuming that character's identity, mannerisms, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, quirks, etc. I always try to get my players to actually give me a 1/2page - 1 page backstory on their characters. I feel that this actually gets them to...

I have to say that my opinion is I don't care if a player is more attractive, smarter, faster, stronger, or any other physical/mental attributes which the player has should translate into the game. This is role playing. A 300 lb burly bodybuilder can play a gnome chick and role-play that...

First, welcome to EnWorld thanks for posting! I just want to make sure that I'm understanding your post correctly. It looks like you are asking for examples on how to get your players to role-play in general and get deeper into their characters, not how to role-play as evil characters. Has...

I'd like to say Kudos on the hard work @Morrus and a small suggestion, if you are doing Facebook, you might want to look into doing G+ as well.

This is exactly how I do things too and feel they should be done.

oops double posted.