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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luce" data-source="post: 6155211" data-attributes="member: 29760">Sometimes it is instinctual reaction. While riding shotgun with another person, especially if you are usually are the one who drives, it is uncommon to feel that the car is out of control. Say you are approaching a stop sign. In your mind you think "Ok, should be applying the breaks Now...??? Not stopping!! We gonna crash!" So yeah, when another is in charge and making decisions that you did not expect one may instinctively try to re-establish control. That is just as a backseat driver is trying to make you drive the way he does - a backseat GM is trying to indoctrinate you in his style. May be even not realizing how pushy and unfair to the other people around the table (including the current GM) that behavior is potentially.Another tangle is that sometimes that behavior is not malign, just the person engaged in it is not good  at expressing his/her intentions. This can be because the reasons are internalized , cannot be expressed in timely manner or without breaking immersion.BsD:"Take this exit!... Why did not you?"Driver: "Why should have I?"BsD:"Even though the travel distance would have been greater, the root you are taking get congested after 4:30PM. By taking the back roads we would have been faster."Gaming examples would be:"Player X is a bit of a White Knight, so having villains (disguised as) children would upset him.""That guy just broke with his girlfriend. While your set up for a moral dilemma (choosing the lesser evil) as the opportunity to ally ourselves with the drow against the ghouls' kingdom would in other time likely resulted in great RP and memorial session right now is not a good idea to deal with a matriarchy."</blockquote>

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