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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6105759" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm going to chalk that up to a taste thing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  AFAIC, LotR is essentially a travelogue and vehicle for Tolkien to show off his poetry.  All the stuff that is really interesting to me in the story is pretty much there accidentally.  I enjoyed the Hobbit far, far more.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ahh, see, now that's a bit different.  If the players are prodding Biff for more information, then obviously they want to learn more about Biff.  And that's totally groovy.  Obviously the group wants to do this, or, at the very worst, no one in the group hates it enough to try to skip over it.  Totally fair.And, to be honest, most of the time I don't have a huge problem with it either.  I guess where I differ is that once in a while, as a DM and as a player, I have zero problem with one of the players saying, "Y'know what?  This sucks.  Can we just move on?"  Totally would not bother me.  Although, perhaps couched in a little more friendly language might be helpful.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  But, the basic gist is, "Can we just get going?"  To which, I have pretty much no problem.</blockquote>

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