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Fellow DM's how would you deal with this player?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2187951" data-attributes="member: 9410"><p>If you're STILL feeling this way, then no... you need a break. Put the campaign on hiatus, and do something else, for a while. Maybe this player is just more interested in the campaign than you are, at this point. Perhaps you're burning out, and he is wanting more from you than you feel like you can give... Time to take a LONG break, and recharge!</p><p></p><p>If you do continue, talk to him, and make sure that he has plenty of interesting things to do in order to keep him occupied. Ask him for a "Top 10 List", every week, of things he thinks should be in the game, or whatever, then throw one in, every once in a while... That will keep him busy, and also out of your hair... USE that energy, and mine his ideas! When you have spare time, sit down with him and explain why you chose NOT to use some of the other stuff in YOUR Campaign.</p><p></p><p>By doing all of that, you'll be using his energy to energize your campaign, and maybe re-energize yourself. Who knows? In the end, maybe he'll even be a good GM, and you can play, for a while? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steverooo, post: 2187951, member: 9410"] If you're STILL feeling this way, then no... you need a break. Put the campaign on hiatus, and do something else, for a while. Maybe this player is just more interested in the campaign than you are, at this point. Perhaps you're burning out, and he is wanting more from you than you feel like you can give... Time to take a LONG break, and recharge! If you do continue, talk to him, and make sure that he has plenty of interesting things to do in order to keep him occupied. Ask him for a "Top 10 List", every week, of things he thinks should be in the game, or whatever, then throw one in, every once in a while... That will keep him busy, and also out of your hair... USE that energy, and mine his ideas! When you have spare time, sit down with him and explain why you chose NOT to use some of the other stuff in YOUR Campaign. By doing all of that, you'll be using his energy to energize your campaign, and maybe re-energize yourself. Who knows? In the end, maybe he'll even be a good GM, and you can play, for a while? :D :p ;) [/QUOTE]
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