I will give you an example what might happen if a GM is too much involved in roleplay of normal players, although no friends of him were involved and although his char stayed neutral. A few weeks ago Ferdinand Kohlberg attacked Hagen and Keikan witnessed that. I slayed him and afterwards he came back and in the following conversation he confessed being a thief, so Keikan and Hagen put him into prison. Technically. Then Ferdinand accused Hagen of a unjustified attack against himself and during the trial we had the problem that Keikan witnessed that Ferdinand attacked me first but couldnt contribute to the trial. Hagen tried to proof his innocence and pointed out that Ferdinand was put to prison which implies that someone with the authority to do that, witnessed Ferdinands confession, which Keikan did. The situation would demand that the Char Keikan would speak as a witness, but as a GM he couldnt, that would have destroyed the story and there would have never been a chance that Hagen would be punished unjustifiedly. We three roleplayed the scene as Ferdinand was put into prison(tears,,,pleads for mercy,,,attempts to flee
) and Keikan did his best to stay neutral, but he simply couldnt know that Ferdinand would try to use the court against Hagen. So there were loose ends IG and strange situations. You might say the better way to get a plausible current of events would be just to play along-->contributing to the trial, but wouldnt that have been unfair to Ferdinand as the GMs know who attacked first?@Moathia
I understand your frustration but the problem is not the attitude of the players but the situation. The more chars are involved in a scene the more difficult it gets to translate, especially when not only talking but action is involved too or a change of locations. Noone wants to miss whats going on. Another problem is that i cant translate what i cant read anymore because the screen is filled with comments and #me`s of dozens of different players. As we received Darloks "offer" at the ogres castle we talked english and translated. This was possible because we were about 8-10 chars and some were quite fluent in both languages. To express a complex thought in a foreign language, as was necessary during the meeting is not easy and takes its time. Consider it took me half an hour to write this text for which you would need about 5-10 minutes. My proposal is to grab yourself a german player who speaks english well and make a one on one conversation.
I have seen many natve english speakers with grammar worse than yours.
). ya see, the roleplay can get miserable if ya haven't the mood or spirital capacity for an other language.
