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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9676866" data-attributes="member: 86653">Quiet players do exist. Spotlight hogs do exist. I'm running a Daggerheart playtest and I'm having that exact problem. Every time the PCs roll with Fear or fail I make a move and pass play back to the PCs. The same player repeatedly took the spotlight every single time until I put a stop to it. The general &quot;don't be a dick&quot; rule was not good enough. I had to step in. That slowed him down, slightly. After a lot of complaining. Then I had to coax a quiet player to step up and engage with the game. Regularly calling him out specifically, the others would try to jump in and I had to pointedly say I was calling on that player and no others in the moment.We tried the spotlight tracker and the spotlight hog used his three actions immediately then got bored as the others took their turns. There is such a thing as too much enthusiasm.If the rules themselves aren't going to guard against either behavior then the referee has to. Trouble is it's a constant headache with certain kinds of players. I don't want to have to tell a player to chill out because they're overly excited nor do I want to have to tell a player to lean in and actively engage with the game. I think the first house rule I'm going to make is side-based initiative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9676866, member: 86653"] Quiet players do exist. Spotlight hogs do exist. I'm running a Daggerheart playtest and I'm having that exact problem. Every time the PCs roll with Fear or fail I make a move and pass play back to the PCs. The same player repeatedly took the spotlight every single time until I put a stop to it. The general "don't be a dick" rule was not good enough. I had to step in. That slowed him down, slightly. After a lot of complaining. Then I had to coax a quiet player to step up and engage with the game. Regularly calling him out specifically, the others would try to jump in and I had to pointedly say I was calling on that player and no others in the moment. We tried the spotlight tracker and the spotlight hog used his three actions immediately then got bored as the others took their turns. There is such a thing as too much enthusiasm. If the rules themselves aren't going to guard against either behavior then the referee has to. Trouble is it's a constant headache with certain kinds of players. I don't want to have to tell a player to chill out because they're overly excited nor do I want to have to tell a player to lean in and actively engage with the game. I think the first house rule I'm going to make is side-based initiative. [/QUOTE]

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