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I have been running a lot of games over the last year and I have seen a trend with the PC's that came to a head:

I was running Scion of the Sky Key. As I was reading the boxed text and it looked like none of the PC's were paying attention, so I read the boxed text a second time.

At the part where the PC's are supposed to ask the NPC questions, I saw five blank faces. I stared at them, they stared at me, nothing. I then tell them if they want to but any equipment they have the option to do so.. they all look at each other. One PC buys a wand of endure elements then returns to staring at the me... I give a rough overview of the trip to Ft Bandu.. more disinterest.

First encounter with the Aspis Agent. Things really go sour. The PC doing all of the talking is terrible at diplo. As soon as I said make a roll, there were four shouts of "I assist" from PC's who had not said anything. None of the PC's had knowledge nature and proceed to blow all of the diplo rolls.

The Aspis agent at this point is mocking the the Pathfinders and is convincing the Praetor to have the PC's leave Ft Bandu. One of the PC's gets mad, then gets another PC mad, saying this is all BS.

Long story short: the five PC's say they don't want to do any role playing and that they just want to roll dice. A four hour scenario was done in 45 minutes.

What was supposed to be fun turned into: shut up and put the monsters on the map, so we can kill them, and give us our chronicle sheet.

This just me or is this more common than I think?

I am having some issues with spell componets:

My party sucessfully completed a dungon and there were several 1000gp diamonds in the loot. (I thought GREAT! spell components here I come...)

However seeing that diamonds are a very difficult item to destroy I came to a stopping point: How to turn a diamond, much less several, into dust. One can not just jump up and turn it into dust nor can I take it to a mill and put the diamond under the wheel and expect results.

I am very hesitant to use "disintigrate" on a diamond for fear of losing a very expensive item. However the temptation is there seeing that the only thing left of the itme that has been disintigraged is in fact; dust.