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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 5192556" data-attributes="member: 16212">I have one guy at my table who I love dearly as a friend, but my *god*, does his mind wander sometimes. Any time he opens his mouth and the words &quot;This reminds me of...&quot; come out, you can rest assured you're going to be treated to a (nevertheless interesting) verbal essay on a topic so *obliquely* connected to the subject at hand, you have to puzzle how many degrees of separation it went through before his brain finally arrived there.Like I said, great guy, great player, but big distracting pain in the butt.Every table I DM is full of good friends, and as a result I often find it hard to cut across the banter and simply tell everyone to shut up, even though I should. In a recent feedback survey, one of them noted it as a weakness in my DM'ing for the first time ever.So, although I have no solution for you, I can at least offer you the solace of a shared problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 5192556, member: 16212"] I have one guy at my table who I love dearly as a friend, but my *god*, does his mind wander sometimes. Any time he opens his mouth and the words "This reminds me of..." come out, you can rest assured you're going to be treated to a (nevertheless interesting) verbal essay on a topic so *obliquely* connected to the subject at hand, you have to puzzle how many degrees of separation it went through before his brain finally arrived there. Like I said, great guy, great player, but big distracting pain in the butt. Every table I DM is full of good friends, and as a result I often find it hard to cut across the banter and simply tell everyone to shut up, even though I should. In a recent feedback survey, one of them noted it as a weakness in my DM'ing for the first time ever. So, although I have no solution for you, I can at least offer you the solace of a shared problem. [/QUOTE]

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