From:	Wildfire Wildfire@*************.com
Subject:	SR Narrowing of focus
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:28:59 -0400

Arcady wrote:

> I had the odd situation last week of having my players complain to me about
> the negotiation scenes. They insisted on haggling a price with the Johnson so
> I made them roleplay it. For about 40 minutes... Afterwards they complained
> that I should have just let them make a dice roll... (they weren't happy with
> getting "only" 60 thousand nuyen for rescusing a kidnapped girl...)
>
> And in the same discussion I later heard a complaint that people weren't staying
> in character and roleplaying enough... :)
>

Amount of roleplaying is a tricky thing. I ran into the problem of GM and all had
different levels of immersing themselves in a character. In particular, one player
wanted to really get into it, but her character was the quiet, thoughtful, slightly
pessimistic one, and whenever she role-played well, the other players asked if
she(the player) was okay. She eventually just had to lighten up because she got
tired of explaining, "I'm fine! I'm trying to play in character!"

Wildfire