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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vagabundo" data-source="post: 5666143" data-attributes="member: 55864">My guess is that these are players who don't have a hook yet, so being "mysterious" is the best they have. It could be a warm up issue; it take a little time to get your imagination into gear. Another reason could be a lack of structure or hooks in the scene. If there are interactive elements then people tend to interact with them, if there is nothing there then they try to move on or just sit by the fire and star in the flames in emo silence (so deep).The best start I got with a group involved a little exercise I got from enworld. Just after character creation I gave some campaign background and asked the players to describe their pc's history in a line or two to the group. The on the second pass asked them to make a connection to another player's story and then did another pass asking them to make a connection to a different pc's story. There was loads of hooks for me and all the pcs had a nice bit of background.But if I wasn't going to do that I'd want a dramatic event to bring them together(a tavern brawl, strange magical effect sealing them all in, etc...), otherwise you could have a few loose end pcs who paint themselves in a corner.</blockquote>