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<blockquote data-quote="MistyThorin" data-source="post: 2989093" data-attributes="member: 36806">Adding to Itzquahpilli's thoughts, it's also possible that the way your character is attempting to include him/herself isn't working well. A person walking into the tavern and sort of looking around and saying hi may or may not get spoken to. This is something I witnessed happen twice today... both times, the characters I had in at the time were in the middle of a fairly intense discussion with others. When about a minute or two passed without a response, random-hi character declared that &quot;you people are boring&quot; and left again.But no one was intentionally ignoring that character for the sake of being rude. Everyone present was simply engaged in conversation already, and random-hi character was not (as far as I could tell) approaching any one person in particular. A better strategy for being included might be to bring your character in and have him/her sit down and order a drink and simply -listen- to the conversations happening. Then s/he could possibly contribute to an ongoing conversation in a meaningful way, or else single out a person who isn't already in the middle of an intense discussion and strike up an acquaintence that way.After all, would you (generic you, not you specifically) walk into a bar or nightclub in real life, not knowing anyone, say hi to the patrons at large, and expect someone to walk over and promptly make friends?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MistyThorin, post: 2989093, member: 36806"] Adding to Itzquahpilli's thoughts, it's also possible that the way your character is attempting to include him/herself isn't working well. A person walking into the tavern and sort of looking around and saying hi may or may not get spoken to. This is something I witnessed happen twice today... both times, the characters I had in at the time were in the middle of a fairly intense discussion with others. When about a minute or two passed without a response, random-hi character declared that "you people are boring" and left again. But no one was intentionally ignoring that character for the sake of being rude. Everyone present was simply engaged in conversation already, and random-hi character was not (as far as I could tell) approaching any one person in particular. A better strategy for being included might be to bring your character in and have him/her sit down and order a drink and simply -listen- to the conversations happening. Then s/he could possibly contribute to an ongoing conversation in a meaningful way, or else single out a person who isn't already in the middle of an intense discussion and strike up an acquaintence that way. After all, would you (generic you, not you specifically) walk into a bar or nightclub in real life, not knowing anyone, say hi to the patrons at large, and expect someone to walk over and promptly make friends? [/QUOTE]

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