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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tim Hubick" data-source="post: 6258400" data-attributes="member: 6749195">as a GM, i have a player (ok its my brother) who doesnt know how to really roleplay and add flavor out his char (unlike the rest of the players in the group).  so he compensates for rolling up power hungry chars and hides behind his hack and slash tendencies.   he's always been like this and its really irking me to the point where i kinda wanna teach him a lesson in game.  so right now in the group he rolled up a new character,  a Goliath Druid (lvl adj +1) that's wielding a goliath greathammer only.   and picked out an animal companion, which is a megaraptor (sighs) so now he has a HUGE animal companion.  along with wild shape and spells (which spells he took i'm not entirely too sure of).   just recently a new player that was going to play with us, had to hold off on us cuz of family issues.   but he was going to be playing a cleric.    so i went to my brother and told him if he can add in more healing spells to his list of spells, that'd be super great! and he said,  ok if i do that then i want my lvl adj gone.  so basically i totally told him no, cause the lvl adj is there for balancing.  and he went off on me and telling me that "i'm too by the book".   but all the other players i talk to, say i'm not.  sooo.... :\  i want him to have fun. i dont want him out of the group but  i still wanna teach him a lesson in a sense.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I also dont wanna be a bad GM, i wanna be able to treat everyone as equal.  but since it IS my brother........lol.   as it also stands right now, i need to learn how to adjust battles.   our group is killing off monsters in 2-3rnds.   we have 5 players playing = 5 chars.  any help on that account is greatly appreciated.</blockquote>

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