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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turbert the Gnome" data-source="post: 5372696" data-attributes="member: 98496">Ok, so here is my group's situation. We just recently switched to 4th Edition from 3.5. The group consists of myself, my two brothers, and a friend. Everyone picked up on the switch to 4E better than I expected. Our party consists of 2 Human Barbarians, a Tiefling Sorceress, and a Shardmind Psion/Wizard. The problem lies with the tiefling. The player has only a few gaming sessions worth of experience. However, they think they know everything there is to know about D&D. On top of that, this person makes the most rediculous characters. For example: a Goliath Paladin who took on the role of the protective mother type, which was also deathly afraid of the undead and would literally run from them. Their most recent character is the Tiefling Sorcoress, who trash talks the Barbarians for charging into combat and "using the same power over and over." The characters were only level 2 at that point, how many more powers could we use at such a low level. Aside from that, they shuffle through books and doodle on the sides of their character sheet and various other things while the other players are acting in combat. The only time this person really gets involved is to trash talk another player for a decision they make or to give their opinion as to where we should explore next or even to threaten another character. This Tiefling Sorceress actually threatened my brother's Barbarian with melee combat. The mentality this person seems to have is that they are the "group leader" and no matter what they decide we should do, the rest of the party is supposed to just go along with it.  I have had players similiar to this in the past, we had one player that always thought that his character was the best in the group at everything we did. He was playing a Half-Elf Ranger with the same mentality as always. One gaming session due to a series of events, my Human Fighter and his Ranger had to face off. If he hadn't been able to outrun my character, his would've died right then and there. From that point on, this player never had that mentality again. My current problem player though, I don't think they would respond to that situation the same way. I honestly believe that they would reroll another character just to try to outdo everyone else again.  I would really like to handle this in a way that would not affect friendships. Not to mention having a fourth player instead of just three is quite nice. Does anyone have any possible solutions???</blockquote>

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