Party Bonding

>>55216454
Depends on the players. I usually keep a few constant NPCs around, this way they don't have to try and learn new characters and they feel more comfortable just listening in. Eventually, they'll ask each other questions or give suggestions and it snowballs from there.

>>55216454
Have something nonchalant happen to them while resting.

Like they're at the tavern they see a girl giving them the bed room eyes but no one knows who she's looking at so some Tom foolery happens.

>>55216572
That sounds hilarious

>>55216572
Do you want to TPK them?

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>>55216454
You usually have to use NPCs for roleplay conversations. Even most players who are really good at being in character don't tend to have a lot of out-of-contect conversations together as their characters. And to be honest, that's usually a good thing. The sort of players who like to sit around and just randomly chat in character are, more often than not, the most cringey, power gamey, weeaboo players of all.

If you do want to encourage it, I would get better at coming up with NPCs who have interesting personalities and a lot of interesting things to say. Remember that a covnersation isn't just an NPC answering questions when prompted or giving exposition. It flows naturally and sort of wanders around. If you're not good at doing it spontaneously, write it up, or even find books or movies or whatever with off-plot dialog and cribe stuff from that.

You can also try having the players tell stories. I will often tell a player to make up some lore or background on an NPC or a monster or a lost city or something. Especially if you have a player who is a bard or who is a real world builder themselves. When someone rolls to learn about the Ke'Blahr elves and their culture, just tell that guy, "Steve, your character knows all about these elves, what are they like." If you have at least one creative player and are okay with not being in total control of every little thing, that can inject a lot of fun and originality into a game.

>>55216454
Maybe I'm a poor example because I've never had any trouble with this. But as a general rule, simply confronting the party with a mundane situation that forces them to respond, causes them to start considering the mundanities of how they interact.

Stuff like asking what happens when they WAKE UP after a tense night. Who has what for breakfast? At one point my PCs lost like half a day's march because they embroiled each other in some absurd one-upmanship over assembling ingredients for the best breakfast ever to the point that they didn't actually eat anything or break camp until noon, having spent hours hunting, conjuring, and cooking. All because I prompted them to actually consider what they were eating and they realised that not one of them was the sort of person who would settle for traveller's rations if there was a remote possibility of an alternative.

>>55216454

This is hard to control. A lot of what answers the call to play RPGs are introverted, socially awkward, and autistic gamers. This form of entertainment is more likely to attract this contingent than lets say the fun talky people you'd have a beer with after work.

You can't control the character voice thing, but maybe find a way to get them interact with each other more outside the game. Switch venues, have everyone bring a snack or make lunch/dinner that day, encourage conversations outside the game (e.g .how was work/school today), anything to get create some sense of gratitude between people.

Best of luck. Party chemistry is a hard thing to develop especially when you don't have much to choose from around your area.