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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5843142" data-attributes="member: 67606">I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to game with my wife.  I've gotten to introduce her to RPGs, and been lucky enough to watch her interest and love for the hobby grow over the last 7 years or so.Unfortunately for me, she's apparently taken that time to study me, and learn my habits and "tells" as GM.She casually informed me last night that two of my more savvy players have been turning to her and asking her to pose questions to me when the party encounters what they consider "crucial" situations, i.e. any time they think they're up against a big plot moment, or any RP or combat situation where there is a definite "wrong" or "worse" option in their opinion.  They then let her gauge my reaction to her questions and decide the party's course of action accordingly.My wife and I have known each other for 14 years.  Been married and co-habitating for 7+.  It's safe to say if anyone knows me well enough to try and glean unintentionally revealing information from facial response or unconscious reactions, it's her.  And she's perceptive - so I have no doubts in my mind that more often than not, she picks up my tells and guesses correctly.Has anyone else encountered a situation like this before?  And if so, what did you do to mask your tells and reactions?  I honestly don't like that I'm inadvertently giving something away while I run my games, but I can hardly blame my players for realizing they have an asset in my wife and using it....I just want to neutralize that asset, or even play it against them if possible. <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>

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