What's your strategy for handling the player who dominates every session and talks over everyone else? Looking for both GM and fellow player perspectives here. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #ttrpgCommunity #ttrpgsky

Assuming you’ve already talked to the person: make that player wait to contribute. After you describe an area/object/whatever you go around the table rather than addressing the group; look at each player and use their name (or char name) asking what they’d like to do. Put the talker last about half the time and in the middle the other half. This makes it clear you want everyone to have time to speak.

If the problem doesn’t get better, and the other players are unhappy, ask the talker to leave.

As a player, when I see another player constantly getting talked over, and it’s obvious they’re trying to contribute, I’ll interject the talker (between thoughts, not interrupting) and ask the player being talked over what they’d like to do.

Now if it’s a shy player rather than one being talked over I might instead quietly ask them privately instead, then pipe up towards the GM with “hey, they say they’d like to do this” that way they’re not sitting there with an uncomfortable spotlight on them

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This is a social problem, not a game problem, so while the GM typically has a social position of power that we grant them, the rest of it is basically the same. Be polite but firm, and remind them there are other people there.
"Hey, Alice, let's hear what Bob has to say?"
"It's not your turn, Charlie, it's Dan's turn."(You can add "You learned this in kindergarten." if you're a snarky fuck like me)
"Eddie, you're being disruptive. Let other players have a go."