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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3383161" data-attributes="member: 8439">This is why, while I don't allow PVP, I also don't impose this rule in a vaccum. The best response from my perspective, would be when the kender player declared this intention, to have the princess player say &quot;if my PC finds out about this, her natural inclination is going to be to kill the kender or at the least have him expelled from the group.&quot; At which point, I as the DM (who agrees with the assessment) say to the kender player, &quot;Dial it down.&quot;I have been in too many games where one player's idea of roleplaying and &quot;playing my character&quot; forced the other players to metagame and not play their characters or have the adventuring party self destruct. My first two rules are &quot;I expect you to play your character&quot; and &quot;I expect you to come up with a character which you can play without ruining the fun of other players or stopping them from playing their characters.&quot; PVP is outlawed in my games, but by the same token so is behaviour which provokes it. New PCs will be integrated into the party, but a new PC should be designed for easy integration. Its a fine balance of everyone metagaming a little so that no one feels put upon by the necessity to metagame completely or be the bad guy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3383161, member: 8439"] This is why, while I don't allow PVP, I also don't impose this rule in a vaccum. The best response from my perspective, would be when the kender player declared this intention, to have the princess player say "if my PC finds out about this, her natural inclination is going to be to kill the kender or at the least have him expelled from the group." At which point, I as the DM (who agrees with the assessment) say to the kender player, "Dial it down." I have been in too many games where one player's idea of roleplaying and "playing my character" forced the other players to metagame and not play their characters or have the adventuring party self destruct. My first two rules are "I expect you to play your character" and "I expect you to come up with a character which you can play without ruining the fun of other players or stopping them from playing their characters." PVP is outlawed in my games, but by the same token so is behaviour which provokes it. New PCs [B]will[/B] be integrated into the party, but a new PC should be designed for easy integration. Its a fine balance of everyone metagaming a little so that no one feels put upon by the necessity to metagame completely or be the bad guy. [/QUOTE]

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