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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6673276" data-attributes="member: 158">To me there's a meta game rule in place that overrides all others: The players are there to PLAY. To have fun. If the story dictates that I have to have one player sitting doing nothing for more than 10 or 15 minutes, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> the story. I come up with something, no matter how flimsy, to give the player some action. Might be a random encounter that they can fight in 5 minutes; might be a roleplay encounter; might be a choice in the road. Whether their PC is doing something awesome, or getting their TEETH kicked in, they are there to play and have fun.I made that mistake once in my career, and really pissed off a friend who had driven 2 hours for a game, but for the sake of story I couldn't introduce his character for 4 hours in game. He left after hour three to go home, and I apologized profusely later. Never forgot that rule again.</blockquote>

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