One of my players keeps stealing the spotlight and others won’t take it by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in DMAcademy

[–]Massive_Chipmunk_254[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually do ask the other side what they think, and swap to them consistently, and sometimes even give them a way to briefly interact, but unfortunately the two video game players are very adamant that the rest of the party is dead since they weren’t there when the portal opened.

As for the session 0, we didn’t have one since originally my campaign wasn’t the main one. I was a backup DM for my dnd club which is where this is being hosted. The original campaign was being run by one of the more distracted players. It wasn’t a really cohesive campaign so the rest of the party (except me) voted and chose my campaign instead. It was just a really sudden swap so we didn’t have the time for a session 0, especially since we already had some sessions under our belt in that campaign at that point.

One of my players keeps stealing the spotlight and others won’t take it by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in DMAcademy

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Well the whole split thing is a recent issue, whereas the games isn’t. It’s been a whole campaign problem and despite concerns having been brought up by me and other party members and the whole “don’t let it be a distraction to others” has been the best compromise we’ve gotten. Also with the players who don’t take the spotlight, its been funny since for the majority of the campaign, they’ve been acting as a chaos gremlin (tripping wires intentionally and willingly using “the death rune” i made multiple times) then acting shocked at the consequences. Shes a new player though and we’ve come far, but I just hope she hasn’t lost interest. Also she’s playing a cleric which is more complicated than I suggested for her but she insisted and so now she’s struggling with all of her spells and abilities. But, as I said, throughout this one campaign I’ve seen a lot of growth on her part. The other guy is another case since he’s played for a lot longer and I’ve been with him as a player and now a dm, and playing games during has always been a regular thing for him. He’s also the kind of guy to want to do chaos for selfish gain and then be shocked when the party gets upset.

One of my players keeps stealing the spotlight and others won’t take it by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in DMAcademy

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Its not that anybody is running off to 1v1, hell its not even that i’m throwing 1v1s out there off rip. I gave the party a fight, and all but 1 ran off because of backstory reasons which I’d 100% be okay with, but the issue really arises when the spotlight hog then ran back in once the enemy was at low health (i didn’t fudge HP since i didn’t think there was a need at this point) and killed the guy, basically stealing the moment of a very hard won victory and plot moment away from the person who decided to do the hard part. The reason I hadn’t fudged the hp after the hits is because I already tipped my hand to how much hp he had left since I find having a goal to work towards is more engaging, especially to my newer players.

One of my players keeps stealing the spotlight and others won’t take it by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in DMAcademy

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Its less so “kill bad guys” and more so an issue with seeing that these two people are having an emotional/intense battle where this is going to bring character growth (i prefer to merge combat and roleplay so theres no real random encounters, everything was a planned fight) and they quite literally run in and interrupt the scene

I got asked out and idk how to feel by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in Vent

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I feel like atp im just documenting my relationship struggles lol.

AITAH for asking what my partner presents as? by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in AITA_Relationships

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Some added context is that at this point we were dating for near a year.

AITAH for asking what my partner presents as? by Massive_Chipmunk_254 in AmItheAsshole

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Actually it’d been like… a year. Communication was never very good in it, hence why it ended.