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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6393925" data-attributes="member: 2303">The Mimir appears to be a plot device the GM cvan use to dump information on the players. But players generally resent info dumps and want more specifically useful information, just the reaction you're getting. They may or may not see through the infodump device. My tip is to mix in the infodump in their question. Say they're asking for a specific portal. The information could be in the Mimir, but it comes baked with an infodump about the location the portal is in, or about where it leads to, or the faction/gang that controls it (or used to control it when the information was recorded). In other words, you bake the information they want with a lot of information you want them to have. About 1/3 what they want, 2/3 what you want. But they get SOME of what they want, so you can hopefully hold their attention. This also allows you to get out of the GM role but keep some of the godmode - namely knowledge you can freely distribute.This requires some improvisation, and the result might be less a recorded lecture and more a mass of stream-of-consciousness trivia. This is ok, think of it as a blog post recorded in the mimir. If you resist too much when the players want specific information from the mimir, they will just sell it, ruining your chances of random information distribution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 6393925, member: 2303"] The Mimir appears to be a plot device the GM cvan use to dump information on the players. But players generally resent info dumps and want more specifically useful information, just the reaction you're getting. They may or may not see through the infodump device. My tip is to mix in the infodump in their question. Say they're asking for a specific portal. The information could be in the Mimir, but it comes baked with an infodump about the location the portal is in, or about where it leads to, or the faction/gang that controls it (or used to control it when the information was recorded). In other words, you bake the information they want with a lot of information you want them to have. About 1/3 what they want, 2/3 what you want. But they get SOME of what they want, so you can hopefully hold their attention. This also allows you to get out of the GM role but keep some of the godmode - namely knowledge you can freely distribute. This requires some improvisation, and the result might be less a recorded lecture and more a mass of stream-of-consciousness trivia. This is ok, think of it as a blog post recorded in the mimir. If you resist too much when the players want specific information from the mimir, they will just sell it, ruining your chances of random information distribution. [/QUOTE]

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