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<blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 5499148" data-attributes="member: 44797"><p>I have an ex-girlfriend who had this problem, and it almost caused her to quit DMing. She was so excited to be running a game for the first time, and so she over-prepared, had friends review her custom-built module, etc. She put out the call for heroes -- good-aligned souls who would bring justice to the downtrodden. And she got it, except for one. Her best friend was like, "I think I'll play a drow." And she was kinda hopeful, saying, "But all heroic, like that Drizzy guy, right?" And her friend said, "I dunno, maybe. Kinda feeling the evil vibe."</p><p></p><p>She desperately wanted her best friend there, so she worked hard to bring him in line with the rest of the group. I think the best she could do was get him to play a neutral, emo, misunderstood drow teenager (the player is a 35 year old male). At the table, he was totally uncooperative. Her first game, and she spent it trying to reign in a troublesome player. She didn't want to do *any* gaming for months after. We got her to re-run the module without him recently, and now she's much happier about DMing.</p><p></p><p>(As an aside, that same player caused me to fold a campaign recently. We had been playing one-shot games, each unrelated to the previous game. But people were having fun, so we turned it into a campaign. However, he had grown attached to a character from one of the one-shot games, and brought that character to the campaign games. Everyone had rolled up new starting characters for the campaign, and he had too, but he kept playing the higher-level character. I repeatedly told him that his high-level character was retired or safe in town and wasn't part of the game. He'd just smile and say, "Yes, he is." And then he'd make rolls as if the character was there, and so on. Eventually, after arguing about it for a while, I just smiled, said "I don't care," and when everyone went home that night, I folded the campaign and decided to avoid inviting the guy to anything, ever.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aboyd, post: 5499148, member: 44797"] I have an ex-girlfriend who had this problem, and it almost caused her to quit DMing. She was so excited to be running a game for the first time, and so she over-prepared, had friends review her custom-built module, etc. She put out the call for heroes -- good-aligned souls who would bring justice to the downtrodden. And she got it, except for one. Her best friend was like, "I think I'll play a drow." And she was kinda hopeful, saying, "But all heroic, like that Drizzy guy, right?" And her friend said, "I dunno, maybe. Kinda feeling the evil vibe." She desperately wanted her best friend there, so she worked hard to bring him in line with the rest of the group. I think the best she could do was get him to play a neutral, emo, misunderstood drow teenager (the player is a 35 year old male). At the table, he was totally uncooperative. Her first game, and she spent it trying to reign in a troublesome player. She didn't want to do *any* gaming for months after. We got her to re-run the module without him recently, and now she's much happier about DMing. (As an aside, that same player caused me to fold a campaign recently. We had been playing one-shot games, each unrelated to the previous game. But people were having fun, so we turned it into a campaign. However, he had grown attached to a character from one of the one-shot games, and brought that character to the campaign games. Everyone had rolled up new starting characters for the campaign, and he had too, but he kept playing the higher-level character. I repeatedly told him that his high-level character was retired or safe in town and wasn't part of the game. He'd just smile and say, "Yes, he is." And then he'd make rolls as if the character was there, and so on. Eventually, after arguing about it for a while, I just smiled, said "I don't care," and when everyone went home that night, I folded the campaign and decided to avoid inviting the guy to anything, ever.) [/QUOTE]
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