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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ylis" data-source="post: 1370031" data-attributes="member: 16749">See, I recently played in a game like this.  Only I was the "protagonist" character.  There was another character in the group that also had a long play-time, but not quite as long.Now, I refuse to play the "protagonist" most times, but we had 4 newbies to RPG, so I had to in order to help them learn how to play.Only the other long-played character ended up talking the newbies into plotting against me through some nice side-gaming, using the fact that the GM was giving me all the "cool jobs" and ignoring them (which was sort of true...I got all the "cool jobs" since I could do them, but he didn't ignore them at all)....Anyway, to make a long story short, they tried to blow me up by rigging my rooms with c4, only to find out that they miswired (they botched...severely...which is why you don't try stuff like that as a new character).Well, the point is this: not all long-standing characters try to play the protagonist, nor want to.  Sometimes it's just how things fall into place, or it's the GM's idea.  If this person falls into this category, you could perhaps talk to him about it and together get the GM to quit planning his stories around one person.  Otherwise, if the protagonist is the reason behind this, I'd say talk to the GM.  It's not much fun playing a game with just one player, so they might see the light about the situation.If not, there's always C-4 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Just don't botch <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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