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Tagged with social roleplaying
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How can I help players who have trouble interjecting into conversations and roleplaying?
After recently starting a new campaign with a group of players that I've had for separate groups before, I noticed that one of the players often struggles with the ability to interject when they want ...
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Game was fun for a year but suddenly is not? [closed]
So this may be a long story but my group and I have been playing “The Curse of Strahd” for a little over a year. It has been a really amazing and wonderful time. Everyone got a long so well and the ...
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How to help a player create a character with more long term motivations?
I am currently DMing a campaign for a player that I will call Will and 2 others. To start off, Will is not really a problem player despite this question being tagged as such. He is engaged in the game,...
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How to describe & roleplay past torture, prejudice and gender discrimination without upsetting fellow players too much?
In the next adventure I'm going to play a drow male, who was casually bullied, whipped etc. by females of the drow society. That's how that society works, after all. It's in the books. He now has a ...
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How to deal with player not having fun and not roleplaying?
First post here, so I apologize if I am breaking some conventions I am unaware of.
I am currently running a group of six people through Tomb of Annihilation
Spoiler Alert (follwing text may ...
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How do you balance a group with both charismatic players who enjoy role-playing and introverted players who don't?
I have been involved with RPGs in general for a long time, but have only been involved with tabletop RPGs (like D&D 5e, currently) for a year or so.
In my current game (D&D 5e), I play a ...
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Dealing with troublesome kind of player (actor maybe)
I'd like to ask for some advice/solution to the problem that I have as a DM with one of the players. We're bunch of friends for years, but our first (ever) role-play campaign has started some months ...
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Differing roleplay priorities between players leading to conflict
I've been in a D&D 5e group with some people from my high school for a few weeks. The group started with a simple starter campaign (A Most Potent Brew) and continued with a homebrew campaign ...
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Conflict over theme in D&D
I have run into a reocurring conflict with a friend, and I am not sure how to proceed.
The game world our DM uses (to me, at least) seems to be a mixture of High Fantasy tropes, attempts at realism, ...
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As a player, I am approaching a situation where "My Guy" syndrome seems inevitable and almost appropriate. What can I do to soften any problems?
Alright, so this problem takes a bit of background to explain, but in a nutshell:
Having talked with the other players in the group, and having seen how things play out in-session with the party, ...
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Can a D&D campaign be successfully used as a Sunday school teaching instrument?
I am an RPG guy who is also active in my religious community. Recently I was asked to conduct a class at my local mosque (my religion's equivalent of a church) for kids ages 7-12. To make it ...
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How can I keep everyone involved in social / "role playing" scenes?
We've had a bit of a problem recently with players wandering away from the table outside combat because they feel they have nothing for their characters to do. The problem is that the one character ...
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How should I respond to a player who roleplays too selfishly?
In our last session, a player of mine spent the last 30 min blowing up on me for "restricting" her character's story, and the story of the campaign, when I would not allow her to bring back another ...
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How to keep roleplay interest within the party?
My group has just begun playing Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e and I feel as though some light role playing during NPC interaction would keep the party interested in the current campaign, since it is ...
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My DM asked me to stop roleplaying hostility toward another PC, but it fits my character
I started a D&D 3.5 campaign with some friends. One of the other characters is kind of a lone wolf and rarely cooperates with us:
Doesn't share supplies
Lets others take the risks
Goes alone a ...
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