Controlling Characters

LordBOB

First Post
Ok guys this is a thread to discuss how you play your characters. The only reason im about to bring this up is b/c im starting to get annoyed by one of the players in our group. I am currently in a group of 4 main characters:

--------rogue ------ Lv.16 <-------- the other dude who is frustrated
-----rangers/sorc. ------ 13/7 ( dont ask why he is lv 20....DM messed up BAD!!)
----- Paladin ------- lv.16 <----- me :D :D
cleric/sorc./fighter -----6/6/6 ( 18th level) <----the dude im about to talk about! "Badass"


Ok now that thats outta the way. Honestly i love to roleplay..plain and simple. Unfortunantly we dont ever get the chance b/c the self annoned "Badass" of the group doesnt give us the chance to roleplay for ourselves. He is ALWAYS butting in our situations even when his character isnt there. Even though our DM hasnt said anything, Im sure he thinks that we dont like to roleplay, but this isnt the case b/c we are always overrun with ideas from the "Badass" of the group. Im REALLY starting to get annoyed with how things are done and our DM wont do anything about it. It doesnt matter what the situation involves, he ALWAYS has to put his 2 cents worth in.

It can range from " Use the rope to help the rogue down the clift" or " Why dont you detect evil" ( since im the paladin) or " hey lets attack these guys .....(gives us battle plans)" and i already know what i SHOULD do in the situation but i dont ever have the time to say it b/c he just blurts it out and its SOOOOO annoying. We have talked to him and he hs calmed down a little bit but its still pretty bad. And to make things worse the DM rewards him for the idea he has sometimes. They arent always spectacular ideas or anything, its just that he says them before everyone else. He knows when we get mad at him b/c things start to go terribally wrong for him.

(Plz dont judge me for the next explaination) Sometimes when the " Badass" blurts out what i should do i wont do it. Basically just to make him mad and he knows this, but for some reason he continue to blurt things out and he continues to get hurt in battle more than he should. Unfortunantly he died after he blurted something out during a battle and i hope that he will start to calm down a little but i dont think he will. The last time our party suffered a few NPC casulaties along with the "Badass" i was kind enough to give them ALL a true resurection. Which i dont think i was proparly thanked for dissing out 20,000+ gold for all of them ( which i havent recieved anything for my services)

So i guess im asking the people at EnWorld if they have any players like this in their group and if so how have you dealed with them. Thanks in advance!

HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
 

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I've never had a player exactly as you described, but sometimes I do have players trying to give other players unnecessary advice and get them to run their PCs as they say fit. Whenever that happens, just saying "Come on, X, just let him run his own PC" solves it. It sounds like a big part of your problem is that the DM is not willing to do that and actually reards him for it sometimes. Maybe you should talk to your DM as well as to the player.
 


I´ve met this kind of players. And sadly I think the most descent thing to do is to stop playing with them. Just tell him in the open, without trying to put the gulit on him that your playing styles doesn´t fit together and then go out and find another group either for yourself or with the others.
 

well i cant kick him cause we would be down to 3 and i dont want that. The dude i play with is a good friend of mine. Ive told him multiple times to calm down but he just wont listen. Oh well
 

talk to him out of game. make him realize that it bugs you. if he still does it, stop the game when he does and point out his bad behavior to him at the moment he does it
 

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