Editing Coordinating Pause (section)

===Encouragement===

As much as the Coordinator can do to enhance the story, it is still ultimately up to the Players to keep up their end of the story's creation. Some Players will be naturals at role-playing their characters convincingly and lending to the story. Others however, will not.

This is where the Coordinator comes in. The first thing he or she can do to encourage Player participation and narrative is to offer incentives for good role-playing. These incentives can be in many forms: help with identifying clues and hints before and during a Pause; bonuses and re-rolls during the Pause; or extra character progression after a Pause for instance.

Another way to encourage role-playing is to introduce situations where the problematic Player's character needs to do something else other than to watch. However, try to gauge the Player's enjoyment of the story at hand before forcing him or her into this sort of situation, as it can easily backfire. As such, this is a technique which needs to be reserved for special situations where the incentives do not work.