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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7520214" data-attributes="member: 6919838">Yup but that wouldn't be any better if the "activity" was the rogue moving off to go steal something and the fighter in heavy armor was left out either - i think we both agree there. I think an example of a Gm showing poor time management between players and characters at a game is a good example of bad GMing but not an example of a bad system.Myself, i would (if i was Ok with the one player spending business time by the established expectations in session zero of solo play) have spent as much time with the monk and activities involving them and their choices for directions and what to do - even if that meant throwing incidents and instigations their way.*BUT* If one player at a table is expecting player-character-driven-business-spreadsheet sessions *and* another player is expecting event driven group delves and so forth then the GM has seemingly failed to establish from the outset the game they are getting into.When i ran VtM games, there would be entire sessions where the PCs never saw each other and we bounced from one to another with each playing through very interesting very character driven and character specific scenes - with occasional group response and teamwork. It was appropriate for that type of game in that system as we intended to play it. We also kept the sessions to 2-3 players, no more, due to the high percentage of solo play.In my more group oriented play with more players at the table, we establish the reverse - occasional solo scenes but predominantly the scenes will be group or at least pairs. The specific statements focus that if its a solo outing it will (barring rare exception) be handled by "narrative summary in a no more than 5 minutes" (at the table) or by "email between sessions" because that suits the style of gameplay we are after and number pf players per length of session we have.A GM with players who both believe they are playing right but where they are directly opposite playstyles that clash has a bad mix that has nothing to do with system. Its not about gold support vs stealth support vs sword support vs ye olde magic shoppee support at that point. Its about "are we playing the same game."</blockquote>

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