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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 5839065" data-attributes="member: 20805">I have ridden the line between being a dick as a character or as a player fairly often, and all but once I had a talk with the player who was getting my goat before taking action in-game. An example: Gurps Western game that was starting up and everyone chose to play a character that was on the run from the law. We all talked about this openly and ensured the GM and group where on the same path. One of the players agreed to the idea and rolled up his character.. a Marshall who had been falsely accused of murder and was on the run... I think only 1 of the 8 people at the table told him to rethink this idea, to no avail. First session, first encounter we get into a bar brawl as a way to bring the disparate adventurers together. Said Marshall stands up in the middle of the room brandishing his Peacemaker and badge.    Hm. I was the first to take a shot at him.... its amazing how much damage a Winchester .357 does!The case where I didn't talk to the guy in advance directly... we were playing an Aliens game (FASA) as Marines, complete with ranks and platoon structure.  The two non-military players were playing the high ranking characters (Lt and SGM). The Lt was doing an excellent job of roleplaying a green LT, right down to being stupid. He sent our demolitions expert who is known for being a bit zealous in his activities to clear a warehouse... all by himself. It wasn't a small warehouse. It was going to be destroyed in a couple of hours by a natural event, and we knew there were not any friendlies in it.  So Tony 'cleared' it. Guaranteed there was nothing alive in it short of a cockroach.    Lt proceeded to chew him a new one over unsecured radio and informed Tony that he would be brought up on charges when this was over and that he had to report back to the ship and turn in all his weapons immediately.   In a short conversation over the same unsecured radio {with the player standing between us}, Dennis and I decided to 'grease the butter bar' and even gave him a count down to his death.  It was definitely something we would do in character, given the situation. I just wish it hadn't resulted in the SGM deciding to try and TPK the party {and very stupidly pulling the pin on a grenade and tossing it at Tony's feet... you really have to let those things burn off a couple seconds if you don't want them tossed right back!}So can I be a dick? Well, I think my screen name is proof enough!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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