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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7793386" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>It sucks that some of the people you game with do those kinds of things. If someone insisted on that sort of behavior with my groups, we'd make it clear that this sort of behavior isn't tolerated. If they continued to insist, they simply wouldn't be welcome back.</p><p></p><p>That isn't to say that people in my groups don't use phones. Some of them use apps to manage spells, or want to look something up in the game's wiki. They might send a brief text message, if it can't wait. All perfectly valid uses. But I've never seen it become disruptive, and I've certainly never seen a player on social media sites while gaming. I can understand having a greater interest in hanging out than with the game itself (had a few of those types) but if you're completely disengaged and focused on your phone you're not even hanging out. Why is that person even at the table? </p><p></p><p>Given that your group is using individual XP and yet some players are still exhibiting this undesirable behavior, don't you think that individual XP is (at best) just a band-aid? Don't get me wrong, if you're fine with the behavior so long as you get extra XP, and everyone else at the table is happy with the situation, whatever works for you. However, it doesn't seem like a functional solution for anyone looking to eliminate the root behavior of disengagement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7793386, member: 53980"] It sucks that some of the people you game with do those kinds of things. If someone insisted on that sort of behavior with my groups, we'd make it clear that this sort of behavior isn't tolerated. If they continued to insist, they simply wouldn't be welcome back. That isn't to say that people in my groups don't use phones. Some of them use apps to manage spells, or want to look something up in the game's wiki. They might send a brief text message, if it can't wait. All perfectly valid uses. But I've never seen it become disruptive, and I've certainly never seen a player on social media sites while gaming. I can understand having a greater interest in hanging out than with the game itself (had a few of those types) but if you're completely disengaged and focused on your phone you're not even hanging out. Why is that person even at the table? Given that your group is using individual XP and yet some players are still exhibiting this undesirable behavior, don't you think that individual XP is (at best) just a band-aid? Don't get me wrong, if you're fine with the behavior so long as you get extra XP, and everyone else at the table is happy with the situation, whatever works for you. However, it doesn't seem like a functional solution for anyone looking to eliminate the root behavior of disengagement. [/QUOTE]
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