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Tagged with social-contract group-dynamics
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How to prevent a player from abandoning one PC in favor of a different one
Here's some background to the situation, which I believe may relate to the problem. It should help some people answer the question.
I play a small game of DnD with some friends named Lorry, Kevin, and ...
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How can I, as a GM, make players with different playstyles be more moderate?
I'm a GM for this group of players playing Pathfinder 2e, and we're playing an adventure where they are supposed to be city guards. Now, one of the players is taking it to an extreme level of ...
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What to do as a DM if my players are in constant disagreement with each other?
I've facing an interesting issue as a DM and don't know what can I do from my position to solve the problem. My players always argue with each other and are always disappointed by the other side, up ...
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I've felt "attacked" OOC because of IC character events. Did I deserve it? [closed]
When I was in college I had my first chance to play some TRPG. I played half-a-dozen one shot there but then I dropped out and when I enrolled again I couldn't find another group. Now, years after ...
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Social contract for flirting at LARPs
I have been a participant but mostly organiser of a LARP in Switzerland for a number of years. This year I have for the first time participated in a large organised LARP in Germany (Conquest of ...
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A player is constantly pestering me about rules, what do I do as a DM?
Okay I admit I'm new to D&D. I've been playing for 2 years now and only been playing 5e. I don't learn by reading the entire manual in one sitting, I have learnt everything from actually playing ...
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Our game master loves running for a large group; we get much more enjoyment from a small group
A fellow player of two years has started to run a game for us. He's the best game master I've ever had the privilege of playing for, and we love our game.
However our DM's ambition to run a large ...
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When a player has drama and won't communicate
Right now, a player seems to be upset with events of a session he missed and hasn't responded to my messages.
Background
About a month or two ago, a player began to be dissatisfied with how I ran the ...
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How to handle loot disputes as the DM?
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Most of the time, Loot distribution is Players' and PCs' problem. From my point of view, I'm responsible for putting the chest with X loot in the dungeon. The PCs being able to find it and how ...
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Player having their decisions called out as bad ideas too frequently for their liking
In our group, there is a player whose decisions are more frequently called out as bad ideas compared to the others. Objectively speaking, by consensus with the GM and other players, these particular ...
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My players insist that I use “rule zero” for their benefit. How do I get them to accept that I don't want easier house rules?
I would like to know, why it makes practical sense to have rule zero.
I'm not an experienced RPG player, but we play a lot of board games with friends, and what I noticed, is that players often want ...
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How do I deal with a member of my party who attacks me whenever I cast a spell?
I'm new to D&D and so are the friends I play it with.
My character is a Chaotic Evil Pact of the Tome Warlock. One of my party members is a Lawful Neutral Warrior, and in his backstory he ...
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Is the DM Always Right?
I recently got into a disagreement with my DM for a D&D 5E game regarding a use of Prestidigitation.
The argument was that since it could create a Non-Magical Trinket, and Music Boxes are ...
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How to assign PCs differing goals without breaking up the group?
In this question I describe my intention of running a courtly intrigue game where player characters have different goals:
To keep the group coherent, I would like to give them two sets of goals - ...
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How can I check whether an extremely adult/mature plot idea would be accepted by players without revealing any details of the idea itself?
I am running a post-apocalyptic zombie game with a dark and mature story, exploring a number of adult themes. I have complete buy-in from the players; some of them have stated it is their favourite ...
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