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<blockquote data-quote="ThoughtBubble" data-source="post: 667334" data-attributes="member: 9723">Well I for one try to discourage tangents as I DM. However, when we do tangent, we're still all paying attention to each other. So if I say &quot;anyway, the room is made of solid stone blocks, about 30 feet by 30 feet,&quot; my players will hear it.But I hear your point, and it's very good. I do get annoyed in the campaign I play in when I pay attention as my DM continually goes of on tangents with the other players. But if I stick my nose in a book, when the chance comes along for me to do something, I'm going to miss it. And if I'm not enjoying the game enough to pay attention, then it's time to leave. But we have a few people who will have a conversation while the DM is talking, then be very perplexed when it's time to make decisions. It's about the same thing. One other thought about books is body language. If you're looking in a book I can't make eye contact. And even if you're paying all the attention to me in the world, it'll feel like you don't care. And at least with my gaming group, our posture is a very powerful indicator. After all's said though, I appreciate the other angle on the book thing. Hope that's the only thing I've said that's worth disagreeing with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThoughtBubble, post: 667334, member: 9723"] Well I for one try to discourage tangents as I DM. However, when we do tangent, we're still all paying attention to each other. So if I say "anyway, the room is made of solid stone blocks, about 30 feet by 30 feet," my players will hear it. But I hear your point, and it's very good. I do get annoyed in the campaign I play in when I pay attention as my DM continually goes of on tangents with the other players. But if I stick my nose in a book, when the chance comes along for me to do something, I'm going to miss it. And if I'm not enjoying the game enough to pay attention, then it's time to leave. But we have a few people who will have a conversation while the DM is talking, then be very perplexed when it's time to make decisions. It's about the same thing. One other thought about books is body language. If you're looking in a book I can't make eye contact. And even if you're paying all the attention to me in the world, it'll feel like you don't care. And at least with my gaming group, our posture is a very powerful indicator. After all's said though, I appreciate the other angle on the book thing. Hope that's the only thing I've said that's worth disagreeing with. ;) [/QUOTE]

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