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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 7139635" data-attributes="member: 463">I definitely find this is a problem, especially with players who like to ask the GM &quot;What would happen if we...?&quot; or even &quot;How do we...?&quot; - ie they want me to tell them what to do! I have one players is really bad this way, and my son has been picking it up as a bad habit.I will ask my players: &quot;Is that in-character?&quot; or say &quot;That would have to be in-character&quot; when players attempt to confer during a tense PC-NPC negotiation without alerting the NPCs, as if their characters were all telepathic. And when they ask inappropriate OOC questions I say &quot;How would you know that?&quot;Have NPCs address PCs in-character, and hopefully the players will answer back IC. Only the very worst roleplayers are completely incapable of this. Obviously be supportive and encouraging, and within reason interpret any good faith effort as an appropriate response. Try not to penalise low-CHA PCs for talking, take an 'anything is better than nothing' approach, assuming they're not deliberately insulting the NPCs.So, these are problems even experienced GMs have, IME. It sounds like your game went really well - well done! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 7139635, member: 463"] I definitely find this is a problem, especially with players who like to ask the GM "What would happen if we...?" or even "How do we...?" - ie they want me to tell them what to do! I have one players is really bad this way, and my son has been picking it up as a bad habit. I will ask my players: "Is that in-character?" or say "That would have to be in-character" when players attempt to confer during a tense PC-NPC negotiation without alerting the NPCs, as if their characters were all telepathic. And when they ask inappropriate OOC questions I say "How would you know that?" Have NPCs address PCs in-character, and hopefully the players will answer back IC. Only the very worst roleplayers are completely incapable of this. Obviously be supportive and encouraging, and within reason interpret any good faith effort as an appropriate response. Try not to penalise low-CHA PCs for talking, take an 'anything is better than nothing' approach, assuming they're not deliberately insulting the NPCs. So, these are problems even experienced GMs have, IME. It sounds like your game went really well - well done! :D [/QUOTE]

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