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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warmaster Horus" data-source="post: 7344477" data-attributes="member: 6785438">One of my worst, involving both a dick player and a weak, enabling DM, happened back in the '80s.  Our party was playing City System in Waterdeep and discovered that one of the players (the dick in question) was actually playing a Drow priestess and causing woe to the party behind their backs.  The DM knew this and let it happen.  The person who discovered the masquerade was able to capture the Drow and bind her in our townhouse.We then had a 3-hour argument over what to do.  On one side, my player, a gray elf thief, wanted to slit her throat because, well, Drow priestess!  On the other was the paladin (yes, one of THOSE paladins) who wanted to turn her in to the authorities and rehabilitate her ("I arrest you on the charge of being a Drow!").  The PC playing the Drow tried to kill herself by Enlarging inside her bounds and strangling but was stopped.  The DM offered no good resolution and of course we were young and full of 'what our characters would do' obstinance.In the end, I wound up unilaterally walking up and slitting her throat with a sneak attack.  My character then shook his head and said, "What happened?  The last thing I remember was looking into her eyes..."The paladin player was furious.  I told him that since she had attempted suicide previously, my story that she controlled my actions to kill her made good sense and he had little to use to assert that I did it willingly.  He persisted and called my character a coward (like calling Marty McFly a chicken...).  So we dueled, him a 7th level paladin and me a 5th level thief.  I got good rolls and dropped him.We made up later but that instance showed me how a D&D session can really go wrong.  I had been playing for years at that point but had good groups and DMs.  Live and learn!</blockquote>

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