Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5957023" data-attributes="member: 83805">One big sign a player is an &quot;obligation&quot; type player who is just &quot;biding their time&quot; away, are ones who purposely spend most of their time at the game table doing stuff like:- playing video games- surfing the net- watching television- reading a book- etc ...instead of paying attention to the game.Every time they are called to do something, such as combat, they just doing something like swing a sword at the nearest badguy to them.&nbsp; Roleplaying is entirely absent, other than when they want to be disruptive (such as making tons of noise in-game to attract attention from wandering monsters and other badguys).For awhile, one such &quot;obligation&quot; player was spending all their time watching dvds on my home theater system in the rec room where we also played D&amp;D.&nbsp; (This person brought their own dvds to watch).&nbsp; One time I took the dvd player away from the room, just to see what this person would do.&nbsp; This person ended up spending the entire game session watching reruns of CSI instead.&nbsp; At the time, this was when I came to the realization I was being played for a fool by this person, as a way to pay back some favors in a half assed manner with minimal effort on their part.Since then, I absolutely refuse to play any rpg games with people who I suspect is an &quot;obligation player&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 5957023, member: 83805"] One big sign a player is an "obligation" type player who is just "biding their time" away, are ones who purposely spend most of their time at the game table doing stuff like: - playing video games - surfing the net - watching television - reading a book - etc ... instead of paying attention to the game. Every time they are called to do something, such as combat, they just doing something like swing a sword at the nearest badguy to them. Roleplaying is entirely absent, other than when they want to be disruptive (such as making tons of noise in-game to attract attention from wandering monsters and other badguys). For awhile, one such "obligation" player was spending all their time watching dvds on my home theater system in the rec room where we also played D&D. (This person brought their own dvds to watch). One time I took the dvd player away from the room, just to see what this person would do. This person ended up spending the entire game session watching reruns of CSI instead. At the time, this was when I came to the realization I was being played for a fool by this person, as a way to pay back some favors in a half assed manner with minimal effort on their part. Since then, I absolutely refuse to play any rpg games with people who I suspect is an "obligation player". [/QUOTE]

Verification