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Burning Questions: How Do You Deal With Ludicrous Players?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7760266" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>It really depends on what you mean. </p><p></p><p>For example, if it's constant Leeroy Jenkins!!!-ing, buy him (or her, I've played with some Leeann Jenkins!!! too) some fried chicken and send his character to a well-deserved doom. </p><p></p><p>A lot of it comes down to the group though. For example, I'm really not a "casual" gamer. I prefer a pretty substantial level of RP and general assume that the PCs are "in it to win it" and take things like combat seriously. They may have a sense of humor about it. I played a character who, at the start of a fight when the party was disguised as a clown, dropped pants because it fit the encounter. That character was kind of a jester, although rather tragic, too. But ultimately that can't be the all the time game for me. I'll get very frustrated as a player or DM dealing with players who are much more casual. Vice versa, I'm fairly sure they would find me frustratingly serious. </p><p></p><p>I also can't deal with people who are very casual about showing up or otherwise are difficult to deal with: "Oh, well I have other things to do today and couldn't be bothered to inform you until the last minute." </p><p></p><p>In other cases you may simply have issues that are larger than play style. Some old friends of mine---a then-married couple, subsequently acrimoniously divorced and we've lost touch after the split---were people I was really close to, but we just couldn't help clashing in gaming. </p><p></p><p>So, how do I deal with that? I've come to realize that no game is better than a bad game. Basically I don't play with people who's play style is really far from what I want. However, in this day and age there's a lot of opportunities to game online, so it's not like the old days where you often got stuck with a certain group of people. So if someone's really look for something else from the game than you, move on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7760266, member: 6873517"] It really depends on what you mean. For example, if it's constant Leeroy Jenkins!!!-ing, buy him (or her, I've played with some Leeann Jenkins!!! too) some fried chicken and send his character to a well-deserved doom. A lot of it comes down to the group though. For example, I'm really not a "casual" gamer. I prefer a pretty substantial level of RP and general assume that the PCs are "in it to win it" and take things like combat seriously. They may have a sense of humor about it. I played a character who, at the start of a fight when the party was disguised as a clown, dropped pants because it fit the encounter. That character was kind of a jester, although rather tragic, too. But ultimately that can't be the all the time game for me. I'll get very frustrated as a player or DM dealing with players who are much more casual. Vice versa, I'm fairly sure they would find me frustratingly serious. I also can't deal with people who are very casual about showing up or otherwise are difficult to deal with: "Oh, well I have other things to do today and couldn't be bothered to inform you until the last minute." In other cases you may simply have issues that are larger than play style. Some old friends of mine---a then-married couple, subsequently acrimoniously divorced and we've lost touch after the split---were people I was really close to, but we just couldn't help clashing in gaming. So, how do I deal with that? I've come to realize that no game is better than a bad game. Basically I don't play with people who's play style is really far from what I want. However, in this day and age there's a lot of opportunities to game online, so it's not like the old days where you often got stuck with a certain group of people. So if someone's really look for something else from the game than you, move on. [/QUOTE]
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