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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 8647460" data-attributes="member: 762">The point is, don't bore your players with long winded NEEDLESS talks. The streaming DMs are mostly doing it for the benefit of the audience not the players. The DM can spotlight hog too - and that's bad.So plan for spots to get new players/ new characters in quickly. A player sitting out for anywhere near a session (much less multiple) is completely unacceptable. If your group LOVES combat, well ok. But the point is, don't just expect to have a session long combat and not bother with other stuff.I think that's basically what he means. Don't have predetermined outcomes.6. Because if it means collusion with 1 player without the knowledge ok of the other player, it impacts on their agency. That's usually bad.7. We've had this particular discussion before, lots of times. I'm just gonna go with if it truly works for your group(s) then great. I have NEVER seen it work well.Again he's talking about spotlight hogging. Where one or two players dominate the conversation to the detriment of everyone at the table. It's a group activity and needs to be treated as such.Ok.</blockquote>