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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 6497468" data-attributes="member: 6752135">There's actually not much that annoys me about certain characters; I like to think of myself as an easy going DM. (Spoiler warning following.)What does annoy me, however, is when a player will put down another player for trying (and occasionally failing) to roleplay or be creative and interesting with their character. A good example is when I was playing the wizard in the starter set back when it first came out. I got the idea to use the severed head of a certain bugbear to scare the remainder of the goblinoids into thinking that the halfling rogue was an avatar of Maglubiyet (SP?), by using both Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy. The rogue's player loves that sort of thing, I thought it would be hilarious, as did most of the others--however, one player, who shall remain nameless, said in a booming voice, "That's so stupid!" Now, it'd be okay if it was him roleplaying his character--but he wasn't. He didn't even try to justify it--just flat out said it was a dumb idea all around. The rogue's player and the cleric thought it would have been awesome.However, its not the first time that that specific player has objected out-of-character to an in-character idea; the next time, I was the DM, so I just did what the majority wanted, and made him act it out in-character him trying to stop them. It was quite hilarious, because the other player's used their character's so well they ran rings around him.Even murder-hobos don't annoy me (much), as long as they're roleplayed well--and, of course, it doesn't affect the party. My current group is a good example; we're doing the starter set again, since I'm DMing and introducing them to D&D for the first time. The fighter has slaughtered three people in cold blood, fed two of them (alive, of course) to the nothic, and chopped out the Thayan necromancer's tongue to keep him from using vocal components.Its gotten dark this time. But, the players are laughing their bums off every five minutes, so they're happy. It doesn't matter to me that they fed the townmaster and his secretary to the nothic.</blockquote>

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