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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonbait" data-source="post: 4576748" data-attributes="member: 29182">I used to GM 90% of the time, and now I play. I still have GM tendencies in me.&nbsp;I metagame bad - I think in terms of the game being self-contained. Anything the DM wants us to know, he will tell us right away. If we have to prod and pry, it's not worth knowing or the GM is hiding the info too much. I'm right about this almost all the time, but it still means that my characters are done with conversations much earlier than other players.I would spout off info on monsters before our characters would know about it. I remedied this by often giving my characters high Knowledge skills (Arana 28, for instance) to remedy this. Since 4E is still new, I do not do this.&nbsp;For some reason I have a difficult time really getting into other people's characters when I'm a player. I often really like my character, but am ambiguous about everyone else's.&nbsp;I'm bored unless everyone is involved in the game. I hate spotlight scenes where only 1 character can act for a series of encounters/rolls/real-time hours, even if they are about my character. While I actually don't see this as a negative. Unfortunately one of my GMs often does this and it derails my enjoyment of the game... Granted he has gotten better and he's using a new system and setting..&nbsp;I will often make OOC comments and jokes in the game, but if I'm a GM, I'm very serious (D&amp;D: Serious buisness!) and dislike the derailments that I would cause as a player. I'm really trying to stop this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonbait, post: 4576748, member: 29182"] I used to GM 90% of the time, and now I play. I still have GM tendencies in me. I metagame bad - I think in terms of the game being self-contained. Anything the DM wants us to know, he will tell us right away. If we have to prod and pry, it's not worth knowing or the GM is hiding the info too much. I'm right about this almost all the time, but it still means that my characters are done with conversations much earlier than other players. I would spout off info on monsters before our characters would know about it. I remedied this by often giving my characters high Knowledge skills (Arana 28, for instance) to remedy this. Since 4E is still new, I do not do this. For some reason I have a difficult time really getting into other people's characters [B]when I'm a player[/B]. I often really like my character, but am ambiguous about everyone else's. I'm bored unless everyone is involved in the game. I hate spotlight scenes where only 1 character can act for a series of encounters/rolls/real-time hours, even if they are about my character. While I actually don't see this as a negative. Unfortunately one of my GMs often does this and it derails my enjoyment of the game... Granted he has gotten better and he's using a new system and setting.. I will often make OOC comments and jokes in the game, but if I'm a GM, I'm very serious (D&D: Serious buisness!) and dislike the derailments that I would cause as a player. I'm really trying to stop this. [/QUOTE]

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