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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8464348" data-attributes="member: 6685541">There have been some really interesting replies to this thread! I appreciate folks for chiming in.Here are some of my developing thoughts:On the 30% / 70% split... Please keep in mind that these are not meant to be exact numbers. I'm borrowing the concept from education, which is why I kept the numbers, but you can generalize them as "less than half / more than half." Very few people are actually going into classrooms, recording, and calculating the split in conversation time, and nobody is doing that at the table, either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ...as far as I know...D&D definitely puts the burden of work on the DM. The DM is positioned as a kind of "arbiter of truth" about the world and the rules. Because of this, it is difficult to, in the middle of a session, hand the reigns over to a player.So to meet the goal of 30% talking, I think a lot of proactive work would have to be done. As others have mentioned in the thread, it would take something of a shift in how a D&D session is prepared and run.Maybe it would mean giving up some of that work and authority to the players? In FATE games, players can actually impact what is narratively true about a setting... I could see creating some kind of system that allows / encourages players to be active creators within the setting.For example... let's say the characters come into a town. The players could spend some kind of point or token to influence what kinds of shops, NPCs, or opportunities are in the town. Maybe the player of the Wizard spends a token (I guess these are the Plot Points in the DMG) to put a magic academy, or a library of forbidden books, or a scroll store in the town? The players then work together (including the DM) to describe and flesh out this addition.Could the same thing happen in a dungeon? It's a little crazy to think about... but I do like the idea of players somehow contributing to the dangers and rewards of an adventure!Oh, and finally, this is totally only something that would happen with the consent and willing participation of the players! This kind of stuff wouldn't be appropriate for every game, but it's something I'm interested in exploring.</blockquote>

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