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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9077899" data-attributes="member: 6684958">There is the friction between my style and the other games.Not only are they the type that like the game where "the DM is my fan/best buddy".  They are VERY used to just not paying attention, goofing off, wandering away from the table or being on their phones for half of the game...or more.  So they will often say "get an important call" then leave the game table to go outside and talk....then run back in as soon as they see combat starting.  Then their fan/buddy DM will give them a quick 'update' of everything they missed and the player will take some random action.  And if the random action is dumb, stupid or unwise the DM will "save" the character with something like "oh, best bud, you can't go north there is a wall of fire there.."  And the player will say "thanks DM...I did not know that as I was not her at the table playing the game for the last half hour...yuck yuck yuck".And......my game is:  "If you get up to take that phone call, your leaving the game for the whole summer."   So.....you can see a big difference.  I'm not sure this applies.  None of the "new to me" players have any real detailed back story or drama.  These are just summer games, not massive self insert ego stroking easy button adventure for "that" type of player.  Well.....dare I say........Bubblegumshoe  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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