<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157690.msg7413079#msg7413079">Quote from: coolhands on 20-12-2012, 03:15:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Would it be safe to assume, at least for the people on the beach, that we have learned the characters names <strong>without having to role play it?</strong><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This isn't related to you, coolhands.  It's just your comment reminded me.<br/><br/>I've only been in two TT DnD games.  The second we all started off in this small village which was attacked by....something.  Goblins?  Anyway, not important.  All our characters vaguely knew each other and we formed a band under the NPC former adventurer blacksmith to go and rescue the captives.<br/><br/>One player, lets call him "Bames" just for a name basically<em>refused </em>to tell us anything OOC about his character.  We were asking him IC questions about his name, his skills, etc. and he just sat with his head down and said nothing.  Eventually the DM called a halt when we made it clear we were going to go to the caves without him becasue, hell, we had no idea who he was.  "Bames" said that we all knew each other, our questions shouldn't need asking.  DM and everyone else round the table said "For the love of God, Bames, that may be true but the<em>players </em>don't have that info.   Noone even knows your character name or class!"<br/><br/>As I say, not aimed at you coolhands, just reminded me.