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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8528513" data-attributes="member: 29398">Incorrect.  Instead, you're just moving the repression to one stage earlier by up-front telling the players how to play......as you both detail and admit to here.And I get it, at least from one angle: a co-operative group is way easier to DM, thus it's in the DM's interest to foster a co-operative party.  That said, I've always seen it as being the DM's job to neutrally deal with whatever the players throw at her, and if they wanna fight instead of co-operate then let 'em fight. (personally, as long as things stay in character I sometimes find sessions where they're fighting each other the easiest of all to DM - other than rules adjudications I can just sit back, put my feet up, and leave 'em to it <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=":)" /> )Split parties can be a nuisance but there's always ways to handle it.  Usually IME either we go to running two nights a week or, if that's impractical, one party gets put on hold and the "missing" players roll up new PCs for the continuing party.  Then, a while later that group gets put on hold and the other group picked up, with the remaining players also rolling up new PCs (so by the end, everyone has at least one new PC).</blockquote>