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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeifVignirsson" data-source="post: 1773945" data-attributes="member: 10833">I will explain what I mean...This particular campaign is having five of us come together to "solve the world's problems/clean up the last campaign's mess" arrangement.  I was part of the last campaign so some of this is my DM getting back at me, though our party leader was the main defiler (Hey, I take some responsibilities for this, but not all of it...)Anyway, the breakdown is this.5th level mage NG (until last night, that was me... I gave the character back)5th level paladin LN (more of a constable, doing our investigative schtick)5th level fighter N (WAS dating the handler of the constable until recently)4th level rogue CN (who is a fire elf)4th level druid ?? (just added, fire elf's handler's girlfriend)Right, now that you know the breakdown, I will give you some history.  The fighter was instantaniously arrested by the constable as part of the intro into the party, complete with handcuffs and being led away at sword point.  At that time, the fighter made it very clear that she dispised the constable and would do everything in her power to be a thorn in his side.  Later, the fire elf was added into the group (let's just say that they kept him in the sewers to extinguish the fire, as it were).  He was ALSO put under the charge of the constable and the fire elf openly stated that he would be a thorn in the side of the constable.Even I was arrested by the constable for freely casting magic (there is a side story to it all with a College of Magic controlling all casting, blah, blah, blah) so you can tell... the constable is a winner.  Anyway, we were doing marginally all right until the handler for the constable left for Asia for a few months.  We carried on, through many protests, but the DM chugged along anyway, telling me as a side note that it was up to me to change things.  Did I mention my character was supposed to be the solution to the world's problems?  Yeah, no pressure there...So, anyway... Constable leaves, fighter and fire elf handler get sexually involved with each other, then the fire elf's handler gets a gf of his own, brings her into the party, constable comes back, fighter breaks up with constable, constable moves out, yada, yada, yada.Now, we are at a games crossroad.  The constable was coolly received at the last session and at least two of the players (fighter and fire elf) are convinced that the constable will get even with them by killing them off.  Meanwhile, the new gf is all confused and has no idea what is going on.  Through all of this, the DM is demanding unity.  He doesn't want to run four individual parts of the story, but everyone is motivated by their own desires and needs for their characters.  I have had long, "high volume" discussions where both of us were pounding our heads against the keyboards.  He isn't getting what I am saying or he is ignoring it.  I am losing interest in it if that is going to be his attitude (if he is ignoring me, I know he is the DM and it is his game).Anyway, he has handed each of us a deadline.  We are to do these things before the next session next Sunday.  After my long story, what do you think we should do?  Start from scratch and have the alignemtn "good" forced upon us?  Try to salvage the party?  Change the story as the DM grudengly offers (he really doesn't want to change the story, he has his heart set on it)?Your help is greatly appreciated.  If it is brief at points during my post, it was because I am pretending I am working and almost got caught...  <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" /></blockquote>

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