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⌈ Secret Post #4483 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Vent thread?

[(Anonymous)]

Out of curiosity, did you do a session zero with them?

Re: Vent thread?

[11thmirror]

Sort of? I sat them down at the start of the first session and told them the quest, when we got to it, was going to be a murder mystery Agatha Christie-style, that they'd need to spend a fair amount of time looking around and talking to people and rolling perception, that I would reward roleplaying, or even just attempting roleplaying because none of them do it enough - does that count? I was advised by lots of people I spoke to, that I should do a session zero, but maybe I just didn't do it right.

Re: Vent thread?

[(Anonymous)]

You explained all the stuff you intend to do, but did the players state what they wanted? Do they have any arcs they want to take their characters on? If they don't know either or disagree with each other, that might cause issues.

Like, what is their definition of roleplay that they want to do, that you're not letting them do? Is it strictly interacting with NPCs as a group and working as a mystery solving team? Is their aim to solve the puzzle or to carry out any secondary personal aims? Do they HAVE any IC secondary personal aims? If not, why, and why are they all together even? In general as players, what do they want to get out of this game? That kind of thing

Re: Vent thread?

[11thmirror]

Well, it's only a side quest to give the main DM a few weeks to write more of the main quest, so we all just expect that our personal arcs and so forth will pick back up when the main quest resumes. But no, no-one told me anything they particularly wanted out of it (apart from, as I mentioned in my screed above, complaining about me not giving them roleplay opportunities). To be fair, I don't think I asked.
I think I'll ask them what they actually want as far as roleplay opportunities go, that they feel I am not providing.

Honestly, their characters are such self-centred dicks I'm a little surprised they're bothering to investigate the murder, even if they are stuck in the house overnight. They could just go upstairs and go to bed.

Re: Vent thread?

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, I love characters that are self-centered dicks ... when the players themselves are fully aware the characters are dicks and are playing it up for the luls, which it doesn't sound like they're doing...

But yeah, if the roleplay opportunities they're looking for turn out to be like I ROLL TO SEDUCE THE MAIDS or whatever then maybe the group itself is just not what you're looking for.

Re: Vent thread?

[11thmirror]

Yeah, well. I'll ask what they're actually looking for - if they can't tell me, or they tell me something I already provided, that will make me feel better, because it'll tell me they're just being jerks.

And like I said - I'm probably gonna leave. It was really nice learning D&D with a fairly regular group - almost every Sunday for most of a year - but I'm getting real tired of their shit, and I can probably find something better to do with five hours a week.