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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8933780" data-attributes="member: 30438">I'm not so sure you're dealing with a &quot;true roleplayer&quot; here. This sounds more like an Instigator to me. There's a whole lot of doing stuff just to see what happens, regardless of what the other players want or are doing, because it means the whole course of the game has altered to revolve around them and their actions.As to how to deal with them when you're not the DM, that's a tough call. When I'm the DM, when I've got an instigator, I always try to make sure that the consequences affect only the Instigator, and that it's over and done with as quickly as possible. As a fellow player, I dunno. If he really is into RP, maybe appeal to that; if his characters are always doing stuff that worsens the party's situation, very quickly those characters would stop adventuring with that person. That you all want to game with him, but that the players need to be working together as a group here so that everyone has fun at the table.Ultimately, I've long ago realized that good friends don't always make good gaming buddies. If a player isn't going to listen to other players at the table saying &quot;hey, when you do this, it's a problem,&quot; there's not much you can do. And if he's telling other players how superior his characters are to this, I have a suspicion that it could come to that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8933780, member: 30438"] I'm not so sure you're dealing with a "true roleplayer" here. This sounds more like an Instigator to me. There's a whole lot of doing stuff just to see what happens, regardless of what the other players want or are doing, because it means the whole course of the game has altered to revolve around them and their actions. As to how to deal with them when you're not the DM, that's a tough call. When I'm the DM, when I've got an instigator, I always try to make sure that the consequences affect only the Instigator, and that it's over and done with as quickly as possible. As a fellow player, I dunno. If he really is into RP, maybe appeal to that; if his characters are always doing stuff that worsens the party's situation, very quickly those characters would stop adventuring with that person. That you all want to game with him, but that the players need to be working together as a group here so that everyone has fun at the table. Ultimately, I've long ago realized that good friends don't always make good gaming buddies. If a player isn't going to listen to other players at the table saying "hey, when you do this, it's a problem," there's not much you can do. And if he's telling other players how superior his characters are to this, I have a suspicion that it could come to that. [/QUOTE]

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