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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adwyn" data-source="post: 1506175" data-attributes="member: 14083">our group often has this problem, and I as the DM am a big part. I found two things helped - 1) Be prepared. Much of the drifting occured when we were looking something up or I the DM was distracted doing a few minutes of bookkeeping. The side conversations always seemed to expand to fifteen or twenty minutes. 2) I also instituted a system whereby the first person to verbally "tag" someone who had gone off topic took 25xp/level from the victim. This let the players police themselves (and me) and kept things flowing.</blockquote>