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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 8437755" data-attributes="member: 5038">I have never experienced physical violence among players. I have been one LARP and two table-top situations where heated words have been exchanged. On one occassion, it appeared things at the table-top might come to blows over a misunderstanding.At the LARP, the head storyteller and his 1st assistant (whom was one of his close friends) had a heated exchange of words over whether my killing of the "Big Bad", which occured early in the evening, should stand.  The Head Storyteller wanted to retcon it as he had about 100 participants (maybe more). His assistant wanted to allow it to stand as I had employed various skills I had invested in over many sessions and won every test. The Head Storyteller pulled rank and, after a heated his exchange, his assistant quit (but not before telling me why he quit),The one time at the table when our group thought two players (one who was sitting in on his first session) were about to come to blows, it involved a  new player to our group. He took an in-character argument to be a personal attack.The new player had his character begin hacking a tooth out of a dragon for a trophy despite being warned that dragon blood is acidic.  Acid sprayed on his character and some nearby PCs. This resulted in one player, in character, berating the character for his foolishness. The rest of us sat back enjoying what we thought was a good RP exchange... until the new player, eventurally, stood up and directly addressed the player..Once we realized that the new player was taking things personal and our sitting by was escalating the situation, the rest of us stood up to try and calm him down. The other player involved, however, was already like, "Whoa, dude. None of this is personal. It is all in character. Personally, I found what your character did to be a cool moment. However, my character would not feel the same". This caught the new player off-guard and he began to settle down.After apologies all around, the new player admitted that that the exchange would have been a great RP moment had he had not taken it to be personal.And that folks is an example of why our group adopted a no alcohol rule from our LARPing days with the LARP group mentioned at the start. "Scenes" can get intense enough without adding intoxication to the mix.</blockquote>

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