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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Midknightsun" data-source="post: 3401782" data-attributes="member: 46459">Oh man, let me see . . . #1 Turning the TablesFirst time I can remember (mind you, I was younger and dumber).  We were playing a second edition game.  One of the players was a friend of mine from high school.  He was a bit hyperactive and prone to saying some stupid-silly stuff.  Another player, who was slightly older than us, was your typical "I'm grumpy if the game isn't going my way" player.  Normally, we dealt with both of them, but it seemed they were getting on each other's nerves more and more.You could feel the tension around the table sometimes, and it was starting to get on my nerves.  We'll, anyway, my hyperactive friend, we'll call him Joe, knew he could get under my grumpy friend's (Ben, we'll call him) skin.  He decided to push his buttons all day.  Now note that Ben had been pretty intimidating towards Joe in the past, and I think Joe had had enough.Well, an in character argument quickly turned into an out of character argument.  Ben flipped over our gaming table and went for Joe.  I stuck myself between the two of them and got tagged by Ben in the head.Being fed up with this whole thing, I guess I just lost it and swung at Ben, knocking his glasses across the room.Suddenly,everyone got quiet.  Yeah, I was the quiet and calm one, so I guess it took them all by surprise . . . even me.We decided it was probably a good time to take a break and called it a day.Amazingly, everyone was much more civil during our next game, and no one left the group . . .#2 Conan, the MunchkinarianThis wasn't exactly a tantrum, but we had a player for about a year who really liked to get into character by changing his voice.  Hey, we all thought that was kinda cool, so no problem.  Of course, we later found out he used the same "I'm an illiterate barbarian doofus" voice for 90% of his characters, but that's neither here nor there.  He wasn't your typical player, either, the guy was big and tall, built like a construction worker.  He liked to play intimidating characters, and frankly, it really wasn't much of a stretch for him.The sticking point is that Conan also liked to find new and interesting ways to break the game.  He was demanding, always asking to draw from sourcebooks that I had said, over and over, that I would not use.  When I said no, I got the look of death.  When his character would pull something stupid, like go 1 on 1 with the BBEG and his many minions, he'd get pissed when the character basically got a beat down.  "Hey, what do you expect when you go all cowboy on the big leader?  Ya think his minions are going to stand there and let you fight one on one?  Seriously now."*look of death*"Dude, calm down already.  I'm not going to play them stupid."Eventually, I'd cave a little and give him some feats or magic items to help him fit his character concept.That one came to bite me later, when his careful plan of feat and item stacking, along with subtle house rule changes he pushed for all lined up.Then Conan went all Darth Vader and started killing innocent unconscious NPCs, snapping necks of anything he could that looked at him the wrong way, and attacking and nearly killing another NPC "because I don't trust him".  Even though the rest of the party did, and decidedly did not want to wantonly attack any NPC that could  potentially turn against them (read as: any NPC who had class levels).His character changed personality, and I called him on it.  I told him that it was poor roleplaying and definitely not the character as he had played him up to now.  I called him on all the manipulations of my better nature so that he could get a character that would allow him to use and abuse every rule loophole he could.He was smiling, because he knew it.I almost lost it, but instead, we tried to play it out in character with the other players reacting to his murgerous rampage.  He didn't want to talk about it.  So I told him his roleplaying sucked, and his DM vs Player mentality sucked even worse, and I was tired of it (after a year plus, and a couple campaigns of the same BS).  He gave me the look of death and started loudly arguing about it, and everyone else sat there uncomfortably.Fortunately, he decided to just leave, which was good because we were about to univite him.</blockquote>

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