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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9392714" data-attributes="member: 93670">I'd not want to be at a d&d table where a player decided to spring a burden like their play acting"butterfly chasing pacifist" failure of a PC onto everyone else's character who now need to carry the weight not being carried by said pacifist or become drafted into the role of life coach/therapist just to convince a problematic character concept to grow to a point that should have been accounted for during chargen and ready at the start of the first session.  As much as the player introducing it might try to claim that they aren't trying to force anyone else to play their characters as life support  for the butterfly chasing pacifist concept that kind of claim gets severely undercut by the social contract.  Unfortunately for the rest of the group it's rarely possible for the group to say "bob, we dub your character an NPC... specifically a boring one that offers us nothing.. make a new one while we leave it forgotten in town & go off to adventure".  It doesn't really matter if that player "considers it a good RP opportunity" unless the player who wanted to enjoy that "good RP opportunity" spoke with the rest of that table and the table agreed to make characters dedicated to being life support for their "good RP opportunity".</blockquote>