PCs who don’t talk to each other.

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I like this idea! Makes it awful tempting to try in my own game to encourage some talk and conversations amongst the players and other NPCs. Did you find that after a few of these 15 minute interludes that the characters had increased conversations outside of the times with the watch?

After about a month of this (this is the only game I ever ran that was weekly...I miss the weekly games) the players did conversate more on their own without realizing it, and I didn't have to pull out the watch as much, but whenever there was a logical long pause in the game, I did pull it out.

The watch time also works when they have only so long for puzzles and riddles, and death traps.