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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5316777" data-attributes="member: 18701">From my experience, players see learning anything fluffy as &quot;homework&quot;. I had a player once that kept asking me all of these questions about the game world during the game. I don't mind doing this, but not when it is constantly holding up the game. The nice thing about the 2e Planescape campaign is that it come with a lot of Player's Guides. So I reminded this player that I have these guides and she is always welcome to read them outside of the game. I was being polite and trying to be helpful, and her response was angry and she accused me of giving her homework. I can only do so much to teach about the world in game (and I do), but I mean, that is what those books are for.I am always reminding players about these Player Guide books. Out of all of the players that I've had, I think 1 guy read 1 chapter out of 1 book. Nobody even asks me if they can look at any Planescape books on my shelf to learn more fluff to improve their character. But they've pretty much gone through every 3.5 sourcebook to scour through all the crunch that may improve their character.I envy DMs that have players that get really into a setting. Besides myself (I loved learning about Dark Sun back when I was a 2e Dark Sun player), I've never seen it happen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 5316777, member: 18701"] From my experience, players see learning anything fluffy as "homework". I had a player once that kept asking me all of these questions about the game world during the game. I don't mind doing this, but not when it is constantly holding up the game. The nice thing about the 2e Planescape campaign is that it come with a lot of Player's Guides. So I reminded this player that I have these guides and she is always welcome to read them outside of the game. I was being polite and trying to be helpful, and her response was angry and she accused me of giving her homework. I can only do so much to teach about the world in game (and I do), but I mean, that is what those books are for. I am always reminding players about these Player Guide books. Out of all of the players that I've had, I think 1 guy read 1 chapter out of 1 book. Nobody even asks me if they can look at any Planescape books on my shelf to learn more fluff to improve their character. But they've pretty much gone through every 3.5 sourcebook to scour through all the crunch that may improve their character. I envy DMs that have players that get really into a setting. Besides myself (I loved learning about Dark Sun back when I was a 2e Dark Sun player), I've never seen it happen. [/QUOTE]

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