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<blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 224699" data-attributes="member: 4516">Sounds a little like a case of:&quot;You can't do -this- and ...&quot;&quot;I can't ... but DUUUDE, if I were THE ONLY ONE that would be so cool!&nbsp; Listen, I can make being THE ONLY ONE work for me.&quot;It's like making Drow all evil and the males subservient ... somebody said:&nbsp; &quot;DUUUDE, if there were ONLY ONE.&quot; and thus birthed Drizzt.And five gazillion other Drow male wandering around the surface.&nbsp; Every con you went to, every game you played in, somebody had six pages on how they could be THE ONLY ONE Drow _____ on the surface.&nbsp; Mostly, of course, because they weren't supposed to be and darnment and tarnation if'n it isn't just cool as lemonade under a tree in June to be THE ONLY ONE.I'm sure Player X does, indeed, love your campaign setting ... mostly because it will allow him to flaunt all the rules and be a hardcore bad-hiney with the pecans to play a Half-Orc Druid/Barbarian/------ in a game world where Half Orcs, Druids, and Barbarians aren't allowed.Laugh it off.&nbsp; If you can turn it into a joke both of you can laugh at, gently, that he's got to be the big kahuna with cocunuts of titanium, then maybe he'll realize he's being just a tiny bit silly about the whole thing and maybe he'll calm down and quit power-tripping on his own &quot;creativity&quot; and try making something &quot;mundane&quot; be entertaining.If you just tell him NO then he's definately going to get his back up about it and be pissed off and eventually quit.&nbsp; De-fuse the situation, get him to at once laugh about his choice and realize it's sort of juvenile to want to be THE ONLY ONE, and then move on.--HT</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heap Thaumaturgist, post: 224699, member: 4516"] Sounds a little like a case of: "You can't do -this- and ..." "I can't ... but DUUUDE, if I were THE ONLY ONE that would be so cool! Listen, I can make being THE ONLY ONE work for me." It's like making Drow all evil and the males subservient ... somebody said: "DUUUDE, if there were ONLY ONE." and thus birthed Drizzt. And five gazillion other Drow male wandering around the surface. Every con you went to, every game you played in, somebody had six pages on how they could be THE ONLY ONE Drow _____ on the surface. Mostly, of course, because they weren't supposed to be and darnment and tarnation if'n it isn't just cool as lemonade under a tree in June to be THE ONLY ONE. I'm sure Player X does, indeed, love your campaign setting ... mostly because it will allow him to flaunt all the rules and be a hardcore bad-hiney with the pecans to play a Half-Orc Druid/Barbarian/------ in a game world where Half Orcs, Druids, and Barbarians aren't allowed. Laugh it off. If you can turn it into a joke both of you can laugh at, gently, that he's got to be the big kahuna with cocunuts of titanium, then maybe he'll realize he's being just a tiny bit silly about the whole thing and maybe he'll calm down and quit power-tripping on his own "creativity" and try making something "mundane" be entertaining. If you just tell him NO then he's definately going to get his back up about it and be pissed off and eventually quit. De-fuse the situation, get him to at once laugh about his choice and realize it's sort of juvenile to want to be THE ONLY ONE, and then move on. --HT [/QUOTE]

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