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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1520149" data-attributes="member: 12332">Well, I actually ran everything before I got Ralt's reply, but I'm definately printing it out and telling him while it "sort" of worked once, I wouldn't suggest using it again.As above, for the "Homemade AP Rounds", I just ignored the suggestion for the moment then found the article I mentioned above, then copied and emailed it out to everybody in the group.  As part of my general game research.  I also now know more about keyless entry and sewer systems than I ever thought I'd need to.We suggested that he might find a character with different strengths more entertaining to play.  He decided to take on some pretty heavy hitters on his own ... which was a Very Bad Idea.  I understood why he was doing it, and I'm sure he thought it was a good idea at the time, but it really wasn't.  Literally, everybody else in the building was jumping out the window to get away while he's lying in wait.  Two rounds and a critical hit later he was at -6.  He DID force a MDT save with his boom stick (I rated it at 4d10, and he managed to hit in the surprise round) which the enemy failed ... unfortunately the enemy also had Fast Healing and was up the next round.  So yea, he got injured with his own stupidity.  Badly.  And nobody was around to heal him.  We all knew the gig was up, at that point, so my fiance says:  "Well, you can come back as a Charismatic 'Face' character, we really need somebody that can talk to people."  and his response was that he'd fix the problems with this character and come back as Oliver North V with a bigger gun.   The "problems" being a lack of bigger guns and explosives.  So I shake my head at that point and tell him if he wants to burn 2 Action Points he can stabilize at -9 and be "Left For Dead", since he wasn't going to draw up a "new" character anyway and it'd save me the time of writing in somebody named Oliver North V to replace Oliver North IV.  And he already faced censure from the Institute for some OTHER cowboy B.S. (charging 5 guys with suppressed MP5s ... alone ... I storytold that one to a non-fatal-for-everybody-involved conclusion and am writing it out of the Story Hour entirely) ... In-Character, In-Story solutions seemed to help a little on that end as now everybody at the table nods and says:  "Yea, we shouldn't F with the guys in black BDUs with the machine guns.  Orders from upstairs."I haven't "taken him aside", but I did say at the begining that the game I wanted people to write me up a character background for a "normal" person who had one unusual or paranormal experience.  That I wanted them to create people you could meet on the street who were then thrust into extraordinary situations.  Everybody else gave me good background, fleshed out backgrounds, with relatively normal people.   First game day he comes to the table with:  "Um, a military guy, did some wet-work in Rwanda.  A sniper."  fin.  Sum.  Just a total disconnect from what I'd said.  Everybody else at the table said:  "That wasn't really what we were looking for."  and he starts running off that he's got "friends" with all kinds of guns in their barns with enough firepower to start a war and that's normal for him, that's people he can meet on the street, yadda yadda.  I say:  "Well, with this system, you're not going to get a whole lot of mileage out of using all your feats for combat, especially for this game."  Double-tap, far shot, precise shot, point-blank shot, dead aim ...At the table I've said, several times:  "You'd probably have more fun and do more with somebody a little more investigative.  The group needs a Face."  Nada.  I appologize that there's not alot of combat because that's not what Dark*Matter is about ... nada.  I try to work with him, definately.  At one point he used Demolitions to examine the car after everybody else had been over it to determine all kinds of data (charge in the gas-tank, remote detonator).  Then I allowed him to use Demo again, at a big negative, to defeat a relatively simple security system.  Just because nobody else had thought to take Disable Device (doh) and we needed to get through the system to progress (I thought somebody had taken it).  Reasoning that they both work with circuits, but I wouldn't suggest it with anything more advanced.But there's just not alot of combat.  I can't even introduce any adversarial NPCs because his first reaction is:  "I charge the guys with machineguns."  His opening comment every game since then has been:  "You should have seen your face when I said 'I charge the guys with machine guns.'"  And I say:  "Well, I honestly wasn't expecting it."  Because it's a braindead move, and endangered everybody in the group.  Can't even let his actions land him in trouble because he gets shot up and dies in two rounds and wants to bring in "Oliver North V, VI, VII, VII" etc. with a bigger gun ... because the problem isn't that he tried to take on badguys everybody KNEW to run from alone with a home-made gun, but because he didn't have, I don't know, a man-portable dirctional-fire nuke launcher or whatever.  So the message has been sent in as many ways as I know how without getting unfriendly about.  I've said:  "This isn't the kind of game we're playing." and it just rolls off.  RPGs = Doing Damage With Weapons to him, apparently.  And he's old enough to know what kind of game he wants to play, he's got kids in college.  So, really, at this point it's deal or split.--fje</blockquote>

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