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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1659237" data-attributes="member: 9037">Cut aways seem the best way to handle things then. I think e-mail is a good way to handle things that basically role play. I am just starting to DM and I have one player who likes to do things by herself. She is not a spot light hog it is just some things that her character cannot do with everyone tramping along after her.As a player I have often been in this situation and I have to say that I often enjoy listening to others solo stuff. I am as interested in what happens to their characters as I am what happens to mine.I had rather unpleasant experience in a Dragonlance game my character had to undertake tests at the Wizards Guild. The DM did not have time to run a straight solo adventure just for me so he tried to do cut aways. He had the rest of the party doing something else. One of the other players got irriated with the whole thing and started making loud conversation during my scenes. Finally the DM exploded and ended the session right there. This player was a jerk anyway he did this to everybody. It was relief that he did not come back after that session. Since the test required the use of magic and skills and dice rolling with some combat he did not want to do it by e-mail. The rest of the party was involved in a little trip to clean out some orcs in a near by forrest. He would do three or four rounds with them and then switch back to me for a few minutes. The others except for the jerk did not have a problem with this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 1659237, member: 9037"] Cut aways seem the best way to handle things then. I think e-mail is a good way to handle things that basically role play. I am just starting to DM and I have one player who likes to do things by herself. She is not a spot light hog it is just some things that her character cannot do with everyone tramping along after her. As a player I have often been in this situation and I have to say that I often enjoy listening to others solo stuff. I am as interested in what happens to their characters as I am what happens to mine. I had rather unpleasant experience in a Dragonlance game my character had to undertake tests at the Wizards Guild. The DM did not have time to run a straight solo adventure just for me so he tried to do cut aways. He had the rest of the party doing something else. One of the other players got irriated with the whole thing and started making loud conversation during my scenes. Finally the DM exploded and ended the session right there. This player was a jerk anyway he did this to everybody. It was relief that he did not come back after that session. Since the test required the use of magic and skills and dice rolling with some combat he did not want to do it by e-mail. The rest of the party was involved in a little trip to clean out some orcs in a near by forrest. He would do three or four rounds with them and then switch back to me for a few minutes. The others except for the jerk did not have a problem with this. [/QUOTE]

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