Quote Originally Posted by Talakeal View Post
Of course... this still doesn't address the initial thrust of this thread, which was less to complain about my specific players, but to ask why so many players, both in and outside of my group, refuse to just answer a direct question from an NPC!?!?!?!
In my experience, generally speaking its either down to knowledge or trust. The PCs dont know the NPC well enough to divulge potentially important information, the PCs dont trust the NPC with said information, the players dont know if the information will be useful, the players dont trust the DM to not shaft them, etc etc.