I hate problem players

[n00b f00]

It sounds like he wants to be silly and is likely having fun, but is just a poor fit for your table.

Have you tried talking to him? Are you willing to do a silly game?

If you do another one you need to establish tone and expectations. If he refuses then you just have to deal with it or stop playing since apparently you can't kick him.

 

[Halivar]

Maybe Halruuans sound Australian. Or Dutch. Or they have a Southern United States drawl. Who knows.

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!"

 

[Noctem]

Sounds like he is just a Method Actor - try Polymorphing him into a Canadian. I think you will find that solves most of your problems, eh.

As a proud Canadian I find this post offensive, Sir!

 

[Umbran]

Let his OOC behaviour stand for his IC behaviour and let the fictional world react to it in whatever way seems fun.

I would advise against this - you shouldn't address out-of-game interpersonal issues with in-game events. It is passive-aggressive, and mature adults use their words to talk through interpersonal difficulties, not fictional proxies.

The one time I felt a player needed to be booted from a game I was in, it was for outright sexual harassment of / assault on another player. I was not GM of the game, but I was hosting, and had the player not bowed out after the incident, he would have been told he was no longer welcome in my home.

 

[delericho]

Every DM hates problem players, but what happens when one goes too far?

1) Talk to the player.

2) Talk to the player again.

3) Kick the player out.

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

If you can't kick him out, walk from the game yourself. No gaming is better than bad gaming.

 

[Darkmantle26]

Australian here.

What was offensive and obnoxious about the accent?

Racism is not appreciated at my table

 

[Sunseeker]

If you can't kick him out, walk from the game yourself. No gaming is better than bad gaming.

Bad is relative.

Are we talking about "bad" as in, a 3 or 4 on a scale of 1-10? Or like -10?

And IMO: after a while of no gaming, you'll take bad gaming over no gaming. Or you'll just quit the hobby which I suppose is the ultimate "no gaming". But assuming we don't go nuclear on the hobby, IME: bad gaming is, at least for a while, superior to no gaming at all.

 

[discosoc]

I had a player who would fight me on everything. He was like the ultimate rules lawyer who wasn't really familiar with the rules, and instead would go off what made sense to him. He'd get pretty confrontational when I wouldn't suddenly reverse a ruling I made, etc..

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

IME: bad gaming is, at least for a while, superior to no gaming at all.

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).

 

[seebs]

Racism is not appreciated at my table

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?