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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8150312" data-attributes="member: 42582">When I play five hundred it's with friends. Some are more serious than others. Some like to chat away while we play; others like to focus on the game at hand.If I was playing in a club (are there 500 clubs? but suppose it's a bridge club) then I'm guessing there's less chit-chat when we play and more serious focus.But if we talk about player agency in playing cards that chit-chat isn't really part of it.Different RPG tables have different expectations about how the participants will socially interact, spend time speaking to one another "in character" about this or that.But three things:(1) That is obviously not what the OP was asking about. Because nothing about GM practices - including so-called "quantum ogres" has any implications for any of this stuff about table chit-chat in or out of character;(2) All RPGers are able to do this all the time whatever RPG they are playing.;(3) Sometime the fiction will constraint the permissible in-character chit-chat: if, in the fiction, we're all in a tavern then I can't, in character, ask another PC to admire the beautiful sky directly above us; and if, in the fiction, I'm in love with Guinevere and am an honest paladin then there may be limits on how much I can, in-character, tell the others that I hate her.</blockquote>