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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DSlash" data-source="post: 5091038" data-attributes="member: 83414">I think the OP meant something like thisDM:NPC: Why yes! I do know the shortest way to the West Hill, I take it in order to trade my bread.PC: How do you make your bread?DM: He explains his process of baking his bread in detailed fashion.It is then hard for the PC to keep the conversation going in the manner it started in.It's amazing how doing NPC's in a first person narrative grabs the players. My usual group has 7 players in it and half of them you wouldn't expect them to be interested in the roleplaying perspective. I once gave them a survey and discovered that they even enjoyed my NPC encounters more than they did combat in some situations!Like yourself, it sometimes occurs that I lose interest in doing the voices and return to the typical third person format. This interest is immediately rekindled when I realize that the interest of the players has gone from 100 to 0. You see yourself that it is important to your players' interest that you talk directly to them using NPCs. For awhile, I found some conversations lasting up to 20 minutes where only 5 minutes of it was actually useful to the party goals. I'm sure your players don't want to a majority of the night talking about the weather (unless of course, the weather is a major plot point). If the players are asking questions that you don't find much use in answering, answer it to the best of your ability, but then try to steer the conversation back in the direction you wanted it to go. Find a compromise between what you envisioned and what the players want.Oh yeah, no hats at my table.</blockquote>

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