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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5838706" data-attributes="member: 1861">Once we ran a BoEF game and there was this special spell..I just don't want to talk about it.Really there's no such thing as a disruptive player character... moreso a coup d'grace target <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" />.I've played with disruptors, who place their sweaty palms on the brake of the Fun Train and GRRRRRRRRRrrrrind it to a halt.  Usually they last for two or three sessions and get the option to shape up or ship out.  Characters seem to disappear into the aether.  One player decided he wanted a truly Epic Destiny, trying to interrupt the Main Plot that our group had been playing towards.  He had heard that there was a archmage, blah blah yadda yadda... The new Wizard decided to go forward.  He kept pushing us, trying to outline tactics (mostly my gig with my background), spell use (something the Cleric and the Sorcerer prided themselves on not needing assistance with), and of course using the party Rogue as a trap-tripping meat sack.My favorite player moment in the campaign came when the guy playing his 9th level mage beside our 9th level group who had been battling together for over a year deciding to go forward.  We had plans for weakening the mage, battling him at a time when we had, you know, a chance.  We went along with the ploy waiting, battling apprentices, cultists, etc for three sessions...  The DM made an "Are you Sure" check when we got to the doors of the archmage's door by a series of sheer luck and cringe-inducing "I don't want you to die" DM fudging.  The newly-minted mage, thinking himself too big for his robes, had the thief open locks, dodge tricks, almost die to a symbol...So he could get into the Big Bad's lair.  Spells are traded one to one, the mage has no chance, begins to try to make demands that we do certain combat options.Me (the fighter) and my friend (the Rogue) looked at each other, said "No, that's alright" then did a head count for "bail the arcanist".5-1, and we got the Hell out of there.The temper tantrum afterward?  Glorious.  We just don't do that sort of thing, and wanted to win the battle with our own wits, when we were ready, and we knew TPKs were going to happen.  So we held our actions, free actioned our apology, and then proceeded to Kool-Aid Man our way out of that pit of misery.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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