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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tar Markvar" data-source="post: 210847" data-attributes="member: 2859">Slightly off-topic, but I need adviceThis isn't going to help the original poster out much (sorry man), but I have an odd situation of my own, and this thread might be the place to seek advice. My problem comes from an odd dichotomy I've discovered with my friend. It seems like whenever we're doing an "RP" segment in the game, he doesn't seem interested. He comes up with crazy ideas that sorta make sense but are pretty much impossible and would utterly derail my planned adventure for the night, and then gets bored when he feels I'm going against him. For example, the captain of the starship they were using for travel announced that he was going to ditch them on their home planet so he could finally go do his own thing, and when the player decided to try to convince the captain to sell the ship to them, the player got upset when the captain was unwilling to do so, and said he felt "railroaded." When confronted about his boredom (he actually got out his laptop and put on headphones in the middle of the game), he asked if there was any hacking or slashing coming up, and could we just teleport to that.But he also makes snide comments about how all we do is loot dungeons. Sunday's game was basically there to get these Kalamar natives a starship of their own, as there was a wreckage on their planet that had been fixed and researched by a hive of formians. Their old starship captain was a gruff dwarven resistance guy who got sorta railroaded into helping them, and he wanted to finally go off and do his own thing. Taking over his ship without killing him was simply not an option, and killing him would lose them the favor of his crew. That was certainly an option, but the evening's gaming would have ended there, as I had no material for that eventuality. Anyway, long story short, he complains when RP doesn't go his way, and he asks for hack-n-slash, but he also complains that all we do is hack-n-slash. He also has different expectations of us when he runs the game, but that's another story. What do I do? How do I appease him here? I'm drawing blanks. I want the game to be fun for everyone, not just him, and not just the others who are already enjoying it. As for the original poster's problem, it sounds a little bit like another member of our group, who enjoys the hacking and killing, but not the rest of the game. I just let her do her thing, and as long as it doesn't disrupt the rest of the group, it's fine. As long as she's having fun, that's all that matters to me.</blockquote>

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