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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1074312" data-attributes="member: 813">Talk to the person privately and ask them not to do this because you don't like having the rest of the party twiddling their thumbs while you deal with their character's solo adventuring. Ask the person to arrange with you private time to solo adventure away from the group if that's what is really desired. If the person complains that it's not fair to not allow him to play his character his way, show the person how unfair it is by running their side trip for like 5 minutes (a shopping trip is great. the person asks if the shopkeep has something and you switch away when the shopkeep says "let me look in the back") and then immediately switching back to the main group and causing major encounter to occur. The other PCs end up in a combat that takes your attention for 30-40 minutes while the other person is out of action. When the fight is done, switch back to the soloist ("I found this in the basement...."). Of course, this solution is a bit passive aggressive so use it with care. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I actually only advocate the first method though. Directly talk to the player. It is the easiest way to avoid misunderstanding.</blockquote>