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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6882270" data-attributes="member: 22424">Pretty much this. I've only used them very occasionally, and only for flashback scenes to establish mood. The advice to keep them short is extremely important - the players are there to play a game; they're not there to endure your storytelling, so get on with it!One thing I did find really helped was to encourage one or more players (the ones whose characters are in the scene) detail and describe something of the &quot;inner life&quot; of their characters during the scene - for obvious reasons, their scope to act and so go off-script is necessarily limited, but they can at least be somewhat involved. So I had them talk about what their character was thinking and feeling as the scene unfolded. That worked extremely well.(Though I should note that I've only used them in a &quot;Firefly&quot; game where the PCs were the crew of Serenity. As such, everyone was pretty much on the same page already. The &quot;inner life&quot; trick might not work so well with other characters.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6882270, member: 22424"] Pretty much this. I've only used them very occasionally, and only for flashback scenes to establish mood. The advice to keep them short is [i]extremely[/i] important - the players are there to play a game; they're not there to endure your storytelling, so get on with it! One thing I did find really helped was to encourage one or more players (the ones whose characters are in the scene) detail and describe something of the "inner life" of their characters during the scene - for obvious reasons, their scope to act and so go off-script is necessarily limited, but they can at least be [i]somewhat[/i] involved. So I had them talk about what their character was thinking and feeling as the scene unfolded. That worked extremely well. (Though I should note that I've only used them in a "Firefly" game where the PCs were the crew of Serenity. As such, everyone was pretty much on the same page already. The "inner life" trick might not work so well with other characters.) [/QUOTE]

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