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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Help GM in despair
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:49:20 +0200
According to Ashley Griffiths, at 16:28 on 15 Jun 00, the word on the
street was...

> I was wondering if anybody has any ideas which may help my players
> learn to think. Oh and the killing their characters until they do
> things properley didn't work. Apparently that was all my fault for
> being a bad GM. But then again the other GM who Gm's us has the same
> complaint.

If in-character attempts fail, try it out of character. That is, talk to
the players, not their characters. Instead of starting to play at the next
game session, ask them why they do what they do with their characters --
the idea is to try to find out if they are acting dumb because they are
out to get into as much trouble as they can, or because they haven't even
realized that?

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