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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9625686" data-attributes="member: 7035894">He was a new player to my table. Not a new player to D&D. I'm trying to figure out if the situation is salvageable. I've had a few players over the years who seem to like being difficult and contrary by refusing or actively working against the obvious bread crumbs. I put a lot of work into prepping sessions, and I run more of a sandbox game than most, I think, so when a player is making it actively difficult to get things accomplished in the name of "role play," then I feel it's them and not me. And it feels like kind of a jerk move, so in this case I'm trying to decipher what the motives were. The rest of the players were ticked off afterwards.I had another instance of this a few weeks ago in a game at school. The party was exploring a shoreline. Found an intriguing looking cave. Started exploring it, and discovered some tantalizing clues. At which point one player said that she felt her character would not feel right about going deeper into the cave because it might be dangerous, and would head back. I told her okay, but pointedly reminded her that this is an adventure game, and if her character was going to head back and hang out at the ship, then she wouldn't have much to do in the next session - I'm not going to cut from the adventure so she can role-play hanging out and fishing.If you've created a character who doesn't want to adventure...that's a dumb choice. I'm not going to support that choice.</blockquote>

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