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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3966654" data-attributes="member: 8439">If a person is playing the game in a way that makes the game less fun for me, that is a problem for me. The fact that they are "playing their character" as the avenue for that behaviour is irrelevant. What I do about that depends on how well I know the person, how much of a disruption it's causing and how persistent it is. Dealing with it in character is actually my least favored option, if it's a problem for me, the player, I need to let the other player know that.Now, if it's just a matter of a "suboptimal" character use that isn't effecting my overall enjoyment of the game, I might give some out of character advice once, but if they have a schtick that they want to use, good on them.It's taken a while to reach this point, but to me, a person who is playing an obstructionist, annoying character is no different an issue than a player who is annoying me by answering the rule clarification / judgment call questions I have addressed to the DM. I'll let it go a couple of times, try to gently indicate my displeasure and then just let the player know that it is annoying me. I'm not very open to DMs stating what my character does, so I would tend to call that out and address it at the first incident. Certainly I have an option besides leaving the game, I can tell the DM that I would prefer s/he not do that and continue playing. A person who ignores my clear request (or can't give me a good argument to change my mind on the issue) isn't a person to game with whether they are the DM or not. (Then again, I don't have the "DM owns the group and game" mindset many do, based on prior threads.)</blockquote>

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