I hate problem players

[Flamestrike]

I may be missing a thing. How is an australian accent "racist" any more than, say, any of the many other accents people use for RP purposes?

Accents can be used to belittle other ethnic groups when used in a derogatory manner. That said, you wont find too many Australians that would care (we generally find it hillarious). In fact, we find most efforts to ethnically stereotype us pretty darn hillarious (and generally play up to them for added effect).

I've lost track of the amount of tall tales told to my American friends that they genuinely believed. I think my favorites are stories about drop bears, and the fact we have 10 day weeks down here (becuase of the metric system). Always gives me a chuckle.

My issue was more with the suggestion that Australian accents dont exist in fantasy settings. Australian is as much in Faerun as is American english (both colonial accents that have nothing to do with Europe) and for that matter any European accent (Faerun has no England for English to arise). Accents give flavor to a character and nothing more.

We once invited one of our redneck friends (deep south here, I use the word as no epithet; he wore the label proudly) to play and he chose a dwarven priest. Ever since then, all dwarves in our D&D games have a thick southern drawl (not Scottish!) and use country southern colloquialisms.

"Goshdurnit! I dun told you that thar treasure chest was trapped!"

Dwarven Bard belting out Creedences 'Born on the Bayou'. I can hear it now

 

[n00b f00]

I agree on that point. It's hard to say an accent is out of character unless certain accents are agreed upon earlier. Why is an English accent in this non English setting? Why can my bard not talk like a Norwegian?

On the derogatory thing. Different people are sensitive to different things. In mixed circles I run in doing bad accents of each other. Australian, Scottish, southern American, New York and otherwise is great fun.

In other circles pointing out differences like that is in poor taste. Different strokes, just another thing that makes me think the player is likely having fun but is a poor fit.

Plenty of tables run off of silly voices and loose continuity. Hopefully he finds one of those and splits.

 

[Sunseeker]

In my experience, folks accepting bad gaming so that they avoid no gaming at all are the ones most likely to "go nuclear" and give up on gaming entirely (especially if they also fall into the trap of thinking that finding other people to game with is difficult or unlikely to happen).

Possibly, but after no gaming for almost 3 years, I was ready to play just about anything. And I did...for a while. Then I moved on to a better group.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I've lost track of the amount of tall tales told to my American friends that they genuinely believed. I think my favorites are stories about drop bears, and the fact we have 10 day weeks down here (becuase of the metric system). Always gives me a chuckle.

Shut up about the drop bears. Do you want to kill our tourism industry?

 

[Mallus]

... I'm not really in a position to kick him out, but I need to do something.

Why not?

This sounds simple, you and the rest the group want to play a more serious campaign. Majority rules.