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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6003162" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>LARPER!!! Heretic!!! Burn the witch!!!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></p><p></p><p>-----------</p><p></p><p>Edited because Pem got in a reply before mine.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I gotta admit, the whole gate guard comment didn't faze me in the slightest. I took it as "Don't sweat the small stuff". Which is generally good advice in any game. If the players don't care about X, then don't try to make them care. </p><p></p><p>I once had a DM who insisted on in-character role play with EVERY SINGLE NPC. No matter what. Buying a crossbow as a half hour of small talk with the shop keeper. One of the other players ate it up. She loved that sort of thing. Me? I totally tuned out. Did not care. We had other, bigger issues going on and I couldn't believe that I spent a significant part of a session (our sessions were only 3 hours) talking about the weather to random shop keeper <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> . </p><p></p><p>I actually finally quit the group because I just found it so frustrating all the time. Total mismatch of playstyles. Great DM, good campaign, but SOOO not to my taste. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>So, is skipping the gate guard a good piece of advice or not? Well, for me, it's totally spot on. But, I have seen others for whom the point of play is talking to that gate guard. I guess the better advice would have been to identify what your players want and go from there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6003162, member: 22779"] LARPER!!! Heretic!!! Burn the witch!!!! :D :lol: ----------- Edited because Pem got in a reply before mine. Yeah, I gotta admit, the whole gate guard comment didn't faze me in the slightest. I took it as "Don't sweat the small stuff". Which is generally good advice in any game. If the players don't care about X, then don't try to make them care. I once had a DM who insisted on in-character role play with EVERY SINGLE NPC. No matter what. Buying a crossbow as a half hour of small talk with the shop keeper. One of the other players ate it up. She loved that sort of thing. Me? I totally tuned out. Did not care. We had other, bigger issues going on and I couldn't believe that I spent a significant part of a session (our sessions were only 3 hours) talking about the weather to random shop keeper [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1[/URL] . I actually finally quit the group because I just found it so frustrating all the time. Total mismatch of playstyles. Great DM, good campaign, but SOOO not to my taste. :) So, is skipping the gate guard a good piece of advice or not? Well, for me, it's totally spot on. But, I have seen others for whom the point of play is talking to that gate guard. I guess the better advice would have been to identify what your players want and go from there. [/QUOTE]
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