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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SirAntoine" data-source="post: 6510726" data-attributes="member: 6731904">I'll share this other story from one time I was a player. We were adventuring in Ravenloft, where we had been trapped for a long time. Everyone in the group had a good-aligned character except the thief, who was chaotic neutral. We had a terrific adventure, filled with excitement, gothic horror, and mystery, and at the end we had to acquire a quest item to win. The thief volunteered to try to go in and steal it, and we gave him every protective spell and assistance we could, really putting the kitchen sink into it. He went in, and snatched the item from a terrifying guardian that may have defeated all of us if we had to fight it. Then he disappeared.He planned to steal the item and fence it for a great profit, and all of our efforts to get it would have been wasted along with some bad things happening in the story. Up to that point, the player had only skimmed a little money along the way, not enough to make us think him capable of this. But bam! With all the bonuses we gave him, he was going to be really hard to stop. I took it very hard myself, too, because I was the leader of the group and we were following my plan.Now I tell you this story to say we could have protested to the DM for allowing that, but he chose to just referee the game and not interfere with anyone's actions. We could have protested to the player, too, calling him a jerk and asking him not to do it, but instead we reacted in-character completely. It happened long ago, and at the time I was angry, but I look back on it as one of the greatest adventures I've ever played and I don't hold it against that player. We gamed together for years afterwards. He forced me to compete with him, and that raised the value of the item for all of us. What we had to go through to get it back I won't say, but we did before the end of the night and he didn't have any hard feelings about that either.He did it all under the pretense of "in character," and "I am playing a thief, who is chaotic neutral, so that is what he would do". I did think he was being a jerk, but it was up to him to make up his mind.</blockquote>

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