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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 2474481" data-attributes="member: 9037">It is not just me and my roommate but another player sent me an email tonight saying that the article was great and described his frustration with the game. I never knew he was not having that much fun. He hid it well.One of the side effects of all this is that we have three games going and some play in one or two I and the worse offender play in all three and this issue is happening in all three with three different DMs :\  Now the one DM has a handle on it things are going pretty good in that game the other two are having problems. So it is hard to just up and quit one game. I have played with the guy who is the control freak for 10 years and it is only in the last two years that he has gotten so bad. It is like he does not trust my roommate or myself to play he is always trying to stop us, leave us out of the planning, run roughshod over us. he has his character do things that make no sense for example in the one game we play he is a paladin and I am lawful good fighter of the same order.  I have never given him any reason to mistrust my character yet when he got his army he gave orders that they were never listen to anyone but him and another player. Even the DM was like why. Though we know why he is afraid of what I might do because only he and this other player are optimal power gamers.To stay in the game and keep the group together I have metagamed the situation because if I role played my character would be finished with him. I have to metagame a lot now to keep the peace.That and the over planning (and of course the plans never work) and the session grinding to a stop after the DM describes the next room and he has to discuss every possible angle of if it is safe enough and what dangers are there and the best way to handle it. A lot of times my roommates character just sighs and walks in. Not caring at that point if the roof comes down on her head.And until Friday night I had forgotten just how much fun gaming can be. I actually had a knot in my stomach when the barbarian came at me with his axe. It was great. Okay getting knocked to 0 HP in one round was not great but hey if my character had died at least it would have been while having some fun.</blockquote>

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