D&D 5E Players Killing Players for stupid reason

[Zardnaar]

Generally a bad idea.

I've banned it and it's a get kicked out of the group and I'll probably retcon it away after booting said person so doesn't achieve anything except goodbye.

 

[IndigoTraveler]

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.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

 

[Charlaquin]

Old thread is old. In my games, PvP is always on the target’s terms. If you want to attack another player’s character, that player decides if the action succeeds, fails, or requires a roll, and if so, what needs to be rolled.

 

[DEFCON 1]

The one thing I like about these old threads is seeing all the posters who I remember as used to being around all the time but whom haven't posted in months/years.

It makes me wonder if all those players way-back-when who threatened WotC with "If you do X (or don't do X) then I'm not buying your game anymore!" actually followed through on their threats? And if these people we don't see here on the boards might be some of them? LOL!

 

[auburn2]

I have never had players turn on each other in game. One time though I had an NPC henchman turn on a charmed PC and that generated a lot of bad blood between me (DM) and the player.

The situation is the player got hit with a charm or mind control of some sort and attacked an allied Paladin NPC. The Paladin on her turn stopped attacking the enemy in front of her and attacked the PC instead. Considering the NPC personality and that she didn't know why this guy attacked her, I thought at the time it was a reasonable couse of action and the battle wasn't really in question. She also did not ay into him with a smite, just a weapon attack which hit for 8 damage or so.

The player felt betrayed and I regretted doing it shortly after.

Reguarding PvP I only had that once in game. They were on a sinking ship and one player wanted to throw a fireball into a group of enemies. The another player didn't because that might have completely destryed the ship and put them all in the water. He tried to grapple her. I can't remember how it ended.

I have also had PCs do a little after game 1V1. This was not part of the campaign but something that came out of I"m tougher than you. So they had me referee a death match. This never actually happened in the campaign and it was after the rest of the players left the table. It happened a couple times between two specific players in our gaming group.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Killing another player gets you into jail... Never do that.

 

[Blue]

With a new group we tend to talk about this Session 0 or when someone new comes in. My preference is inter-character tension and drama is fine, inter-player is not. Be respectful of the other players (for instance I checked with the player of the Tiefling before deciding my half-elf paladin was racist against "fiend-bloods"). And no PvP - which includes stealing and other hostile acts.

Last person who was doing this ended up leaving the game for scheduling issues, which was sad because it was just one character and he was fun to game with. Other than that haven't had to deal with for years.

BIT other tables though have other social norms. Judging them by our own without knowing that table doesn't do any good.

 

[Azuresun]

Even though this conversation is 6 years old, I am still going to speak my opinion.

Or you could....start a new thread, maybe?

 

[Flamestrike]

In my games, PvP is always on the target’s terms. If you want to attack another player’s character, that player decides if the action succeeds, fails, or requires a roll, and if so, what needs to be rolled.

Thats not a bad way of doing it. Consider it stolen.

 

[R_J_K75]

Or you could....start a new thread, maybe?

This one is working just fine; its aged and wise.