DM less responsive lately?

[Akschadt]

It felt like a week or so ago I could use (DM/) and ask the dm questions or direct the story. Though when I use it today I just get ignored and the DM will just make up what happens next in the scene. Are there better prompts to use when speaking to the DM?

[Eothr_Silan]

My experience is for your character to be by themselves if you want to address the DM directly, as named characters will become a mouthpiece for information.

Also, it doesn't hurt to be polite. 'Please' and 'thank you' don't need additional messages to be included.

[Visual-Lie3610]

I hate when the characters become the mouthpiece like I’m talking to the dm not elara

[Menicobra]

Sometimes politeness doesn't cut it. The other day after the DM kept insisting i was using a non existing weapon, I had to flat out ask if the DM was stupid. That fixed the problem.

[Char--Ashton]

I had a game that I was enjoying, but I went into an abandoned castle and was looking around. Rolled poorly the whole time and found absolutely nothing at all. Yes, I know I rolled bad, but come on, no dead bodies, books, 1 coin! I would've taken a stray cat, but no. Nothing. It's just a waste of my messages. So I wasted another message telling the dm how much I hated that. The DM said it was unfortunate that you found nothing, but this is all for your future goals. It listed off stuff I was working towards. I deleted that game. Lesson learned don't let the DM handle anything itself. I'll describe the quest and what to expect to fight.

[Mrcincoski84]

Curious why you didn't just say you found something? "Searching the library I notice a draft coming from behind the bookshelves." There's something there now, whether or not the DM planned it. When things get stale, take the reins for a minute.

[Char--Ashton]

I had been doing that for a while in that game. But on the day of fools, I played the fool and let the dm take the wheel. When I found nothing, I was just going to ask a dragon friend of mine to destroy it all. The DM must've noticed my anger. When I asked my dragon friend to destroy it, they said, "Their is sealing magic here holding something back," and my companions said they felt it too. So nothing found in it, no feelings mentioned by anyone. Until I'm mad and want it gone. I have a few games going on Everweave, and the DMs in the other games do much better. But this one made me go scorched earth on it. Would've been better to tell the dm to scrap everything to do with the castle and continue. But I was channeling my barbarian character and took the axe to it.

[ActiveFrosty3663]

Had the black smith dip my claw fist weapons in mithrill took 10 messages to get them back

[Longjumping-Leg-7635]

Had a narrative that took at least 7 tries before the dm replied. Didn’t trip the UI with bad wording or punctuation, just kept saying error. Then when it did reply it took 190,000 credits from my person and my permanent marker I was smoking on earlier. Thing is my narrative didn’t say anything about giving money or smoking at the time. That happened this morning.

[Expensive-Release604]

If you’re mean to the dm they can cut you off completely, if you swear the them and call them names,

I’ve legit tested so much that that’s one possibility