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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rl'Halsinor" data-source="post: 2469171" data-attributes="member: 19772">My brother-in-law Bill is pretty close to what you describe.  You can paint a picture for him on what his PC sees, experiences, hears and he will use his favorite 4 worded question (and mean it!), "I don't get it?"   Quickly followed up by, "Now tell me this again."  You usually have to explain it to him "again" at least 3 times.    He has been playing for years and still doesn't understand why certain things take place with game mechanics!  He can also be majorly clueless to plot hooks.  For a true example this sequence of events happened in a solo adventure my brother Dave was running and Bill was the PC with several henchman:Dave: "Okay, you've been exploring the forest three days. As you travel on the morning of the fourth day you see what appears to be a ruins of some kind?Bill: "What do I see again?Dave: "Bill, off to your right you see ruins through the trees.  It looks pretty massive in scope."Bill: "I go on."    And thus ends that adventure.  Duh!</blockquote>