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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fusiox" data-source="post: 5908618" data-attributes="member: 97839">I tend to ramble a lot; this next part in quote-format is simply back-story to why I've posted about this issue. I would advise skipping the next part and getting to the real question, unless of course you're interested in my back-story--in which case, I greatly appreciate said interest! <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=":)" />All my dithering aside, what are some effective methods that a DM can employ in order to promote immersion--to tell the players that spending hours making detailed back-stories, belting out archaic speech in hammy voices, viewing the NPCs as real people rather than figments of our group's collective imagination, and taking the time to learn the inconsequential details about the world they roam is in fact a worthwhile task?Thanks for reading! I apologize for the wall of text, but... well, I tend to really get way too deep into things, as you may have inferred by now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>