D&D 5E Players Killing Players for stupid reason

[victorcrossman]

Should i allow my PC's to kill another PC just because "he wasn't here"?

 

[The Crimson Binome]

What do you mean by "he wasn't here"? Did the player miss the session for some reason?

In general, it's not encouraged for PCs to kill each other.

 

[Nebulous]

We killed a player's 2nd edition psionic character long ago when the player himself wasn't there one session. The psionicist was crazy powerful and was breaking the game, so for some reason (as DM) I went along with the plan to kill him and tell the player later, who was not pleased with the news.

It's bad form. I don't recommend it.

 

[DMZ2112]

To paraphrase a popular middle American refrain: PCs don't hurt PCs. I do.

As soon as one PC starts working at cross purposes to the group, that PC becomes an NPC villain and the player spends the rest of the session rolling up a new, more cooperative character and thinking about what they've done. I spend too much time working on campaigns to put up with disruptive players.

They can go gank lowbies in World of Warcraft if they enjoy ruining gamers' days. Not on my watch.

 

[PnPgamer]

To paraphrase a popular middle American refrain: PCs don't hurt PCs. I do.

As soon as one PC starts working at cross purposes to the group, that PC becomes an NPC villain and the player spends the rest of the session rolling up a new, more cooperative character and thinking about what they've done. I spend too much time working on campaigns to put up with disruptive players.

They can go gank lowbies in World of Warcraft if they enjoy ruining gamers' days. Not on my watch.

I always as a player tend to create as cooperative character as possible, no matter the background, class, race, (real) alignment, or greedyness. It is just really bad to witness a player who just wants to screw up a game, and I never want to be one.
I once was in a combat with another pc, a wizard (mine was a fighter, game was pathfinder). He hit me once with a quarterstaff, I hit him once with a punch. We bonded.

 

[Astrosicebear]

Should i allow my PC's to kill another PC just because "he wasn't here"?

YES!!!
Because if you do... no one will miss any sessions.

More gaming! SOunds like a DM win win. Until you have no players.


Lol.

No. Just no.

 

[dream66_]

Any player that kills other PCs is not welcome at my table, for any reason.

In fact, anyone who creates a PC that isn't a into teamwork isn't welcome.

 

[painted_klown]

PC in fighting is not cool IMO. Players get upset when the other players aren't on their side. There is a bit of this going on in the PF game I play. We have a player is who playing an evil character and he is fully staying in character, some of the other PCs are NOT happy, in game or in real life. I am interested to see how this will play out.

On the other hand, we had a player become terribly poisoned (that couldn't be reversed as it permanently changed his stats) and he agreed to let teh rest of the party kill him and loot the body (and he would roll up a new character). We had a lot of fun with it, and we decided to go into town and hire a local mercenary to assist us for a bit (and he played the hired mercenary for rest of the session). In that situation, the killing of the PC was encouraged by the player. Any other situation, and I would try to avoid it myself.

Good luck.

 

[Wolfskin]

Man, if I were you I'd kick the offending player out- PvP is not cool with me, and definitely not the reason I play TRPGs.

 

[BigVanVader]

So I'm playing in an evil campaign right now, and it's a ton of fun. Last night two new characters joined the session, and the other player said he wanted to aim his crossbow at one of them, "Because how would my character know who he is?"

The DM looked right at him and went, "I'll tell you who that is, that's your new teammate. You're not pointing your crossbow at him."

In general, PVP doesn't sound like a good thing unless it's that kind of campaign, or you're in a tournament or an arena, or something like that.