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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 900898" data-attributes="member: 1016">I had my own "Why am I here?" player completely kill a game. We were starting up Spycraft and I was wanting to run the psionic rules. I had a player volunteer to do so. His concept was that he was an experiment and that he had developed these powers when he was 12. He insisted on only being 17 years old at the start of the game.  I was envisioning that he'd play an adult psionic talent that was stuck in a teenagers body. That the first adventrue would be his "field test." ... That is what I get for not really getting my player to tell me what he thinking.In Spycraft, things are real straightforward. You PCs go where they are told, get a breifing, do the mission and go home. The player kept his character away from the breifing area and insisted on being late to the meeting. Afterwards, he refused any offered equipment and then promptly ignored the mission to hang out and at the airport and flirt with girls until his flight came to pick him up. This drove the other players insane, but instead of ignoring him, they spent all of their time getting him to play (even when I told them to give up.) His excuse for his behavior? "I didn't want to do a cliche. All of the other players were being cliches and Spycraft is one big cliche." Oddly enough, he pretty much played the cliche of a spoiled teenager. My answer was "What did you expect from a super spy game?!" He could have just done me the favor of walking out. Some advice btw, don't go all immature and decide you can try to do the same sort of stunt when such a player has become the GM. They know their own trick and won't put up with the same garabage they dish out.</blockquote>

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