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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3466399" data-attributes="member: 4937">I see half hour monologues as a bad thing regardless of what they are about.  I can't think of anything so interesting that it justifies the DM lecturing the players for a half-hour.On the other hand, I can't see why elven tea is so uninteresting that it could not be made the metatext of a half-hour of interesting role-play.  Perhaps I've an elfin culture in part inspired by Japanese culture, and the characters are engaged in a tea ceremony with a respected highly conservative elfin samurii who may just know who is responcible for murdering the geisha and who is behind the plot to kill the emporer but doesn't trust these uncouth human sell-swords and is - somewhat against his will - attracted to the female ranger and who happens to be the sort of person who is insulted by too direct speach.That might make for an interesting discussion of 'tea', and the more thought that the DM has put into tea ceremonies and the cultures that produce them, the more things of substance the the DM has to use to enrich the conversation.</blockquote>