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<blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1860291" data-attributes="member: 478">That's exactly what I meant with &quot;the interaction within the game&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;If a player always writes elaborate posts, but the DM doesn't, then the player will sooner or later stop doing that. If the DM, however, often gives the players lots of information to play with, then players will make more elaborate posts, too.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Sometimes, a one-liner is more than enough, tho, if there simply isn't more to do or say, or when the flow is quick and thus the &quot;actions&quot; become shorter, but quicker in succession.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Surely is.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;What you describe in the first example is the ideal way PbP games should work, it requires a lot of work for the DM (so, yeah, here one could make a point that DM'ing lots of games could be a hindrance, mostly because of time restraints).&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;As a player it's much easier to write good posts, as you have so much less to worry about, as compared to the DM, who usually has to keep track of a whole lot of things.&nbsp; &nbsp;As with many other things, if there is a &quot;certain chemistry&quot; between the players, things work out great. But that seems hard to find, so consider yourself lucky. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Bye&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thanee, post: 1860291, member: 478"] That's exactly what I meant with "the interaction within the game". If a player always writes elaborate posts, but the DM doesn't, then the player will sooner or later stop doing that. If the DM, however, often gives the players lots of information to play with, then players will make more elaborate posts, too. Sometimes, a one-liner is more than enough, tho, if there simply isn't more to do or say, or when the flow is quick and thus the "actions" become shorter, but quicker in succession. Surely is. What you describe in the first example is the ideal way PbP games should work, it requires a lot of work for the DM (so, yeah, here one could make a point that DM'ing lots of games could be a hindrance, mostly because of time restraints). As a player it's much easier to write good posts, as you have so much less to worry about, as compared to the DM, who usually has to keep track of a whole lot of things. As with many other things, if there is a "certain chemistry" between the players, things work out great. But that seems hard to find, so consider yourself lucky. :D Bye Thanee [/QUOTE]

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