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<blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1315167" data-attributes="member: 9983"><p>Have a quiet word to the GM, phonecall or email out of game and tell him to pick on the other layabouts.</p><p>Its pretty common and youre not the only one who's been through it in roleplaying history, Ive had it, one of my good friends who I introduced to DnD has this problem as well. Lots of bodies, no words type of people.</p><p></p><p>To some degree some people will find it hard to open up in front of other people socially, most often blokes, until they get to know each other pretty well. So if its a new group of players, who might not have a lot of experience playing or arent used to each other. But more than likely the problem isnt you, while you may not even be the most outgoing or confident of people it dosnt take much for some of us to just step up to the plate, simply because everyone else is being a pussy about it.</p><p></p><p>For awhile I was doing a lot of dragging the rest of the group along by the nose, simply because I couldnt be bothered listening to the sound of silence or maybe the GM and me got sick of playing in a room with no participants.</p><p>So, unless I shut my hole, sat back and let people hang themselves for a bit. Eventually I'd step in and help if they looked like they'd kill us all, but apart from that it did make them say something once in awhile, even if it was along the lines of "OH MY GOD! GEDDIT OFF ME IT BUUUUURNS!!!"</p><p></p><p>Another way to look at this is from the GM's point of veiw.</p><p>They need to address each of the players in turn with: "What do you do"</p><p>And dont progress until people spit something out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thresher, post: 1315167, member: 9983"] Have a quiet word to the GM, phonecall or email out of game and tell him to pick on the other layabouts. Its pretty common and youre not the only one who's been through it in roleplaying history, Ive had it, one of my good friends who I introduced to DnD has this problem as well. Lots of bodies, no words type of people. To some degree some people will find it hard to open up in front of other people socially, most often blokes, until they get to know each other pretty well. So if its a new group of players, who might not have a lot of experience playing or arent used to each other. But more than likely the problem isnt you, while you may not even be the most outgoing or confident of people it dosnt take much for some of us to just step up to the plate, simply because everyone else is being a pussy about it. For awhile I was doing a lot of dragging the rest of the group along by the nose, simply because I couldnt be bothered listening to the sound of silence or maybe the GM and me got sick of playing in a room with no participants. So, unless I shut my hole, sat back and let people hang themselves for a bit. Eventually I'd step in and help if they looked like they'd kill us all, but apart from that it did make them say something once in awhile, even if it was along the lines of "OH MY GOD! GEDDIT OFF ME IT BUUUUURNS!!!" Another way to look at this is from the GM's point of veiw. They need to address each of the players in turn with: "What do you do" And dont progress until people spit something out. [/QUOTE]
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