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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 4445374" data-attributes="member: 54877">Disclaimers:  I'm not in any way a counselor or trained professional in these matters.  Everything I have to add is from the perspective of helping players that are shy.  Such techniques may be useful, useless, or totally counter-productive.  I wouldn't know. That said, it's bound to come up, sooner or later, in discussion with other players, or even in game, that she is very relunctant to participate in the roleplay/banter.  You might want to forestall that by discussing with her whether or not she would prefer to let the word get out that she is, "extremely shy".  No need to go into details with the rest of the players.   A good way to help out a "shy" person in a game is to institute extra rewards for players that "pull in" other player characters to scenes.  We do this all the time, because of having a large group, but it does help the more shy players get comfortable.  We explicity discusssed this in our group, and emphasized that "pull in" does not have to mean that the pulled in player is suddenly roleplaying to the hilt. Quite the contrary, actually. It often is nothing more than a short comment by the pulled in player, to establish that they are in the scene.  Sometimes, it's nothing more than:  "Hey, I'm going to barter with that pawnbroker, but I don't trust him.  Maybe Yvain can accompany me and look menacing ..." I would think that kind of setup would be perfect for this player.  Her character gets pulled into the scene explicitly, but all she has to do is say yes (as a player), and then be there to spot the pick pocket, or help in the fight, if it matters. I've also found that this method, at least for shy people, gives them more good opportunities for quips.  They are standing around, focused on the scene, involved--but no pressure.  Suddenly, a really good line occurs to them in a natural pause in the dialog, and out it comes.  (I'm not shy at all--nor a terribly great roleplayer, but I actually got a rep for being a "great wit" in one game I played in, because I practically only said anything under such circumstances.  If you say very little, and what you say is your "best", then of course you come across well.)  Again, guessing, but I would think that a little success of that nature would go a long way towards giving her some confidence.</blockquote>

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