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<blockquote data-quote="1StrangeFellow" data-source="post: 141469" data-attributes="member: 3954"><p>Our group has two seperate modes we like to call "With Steve" and "Without Steve". Steve is an individual who won't shut up about anything. He starts telling stories about campaigns he was in eight years ago when someone does something that reminds him of them. He interrupts the DM to tell him how he would resolve things. He tells us about his other characters. If everyone else is busy or won't listen, he will walk into the other room because 'it wasn't his turn' and then not know what is going on (sometimes with disasterous results, like when he gets stuck in my Glue spell I cast or slips on my Grease, gets in the way when I communicate to the other characters that I want to cast an area spell, or attacks something we had stopped attacking and gotten to surrender). The DM can't control him - or won't. The other players, the DM's roommates, won't let me be too critical of the DM or suggest that I should take control of the game to stop it. I'm stuck trying to speak over him or interrupt to say 'let's focus on our <em>current</em> situation, not something that happened to you eight years ago' or reminding the DM where we were at and having both of us try to awaken the players from a Steve-induced trance (DC 25). Fortunately, Steve is probably not going to be able to keep playing with us every week, if at all, from today on out.</p><p></p><p>With Steve, half our time is blown. Of that time wasted, a third is probably him telling pointless stories, another third telling the DM what he would do if he were DM or rules lawyering, and another third is wasted by telling other characters what they should do or getting mad at them because he doesn't pay attention until his turn during combat and walks into something stupid.</p><p></p><p>Without Steve, we don't spend nearly as much time looking things up or arguing rules/judgements. Our first eight sessions or so of this campaign were peacefully 'without Steve'. I really hope we can continue to be 'Without Steve' if he's going to keep acting this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1StrangeFellow, post: 141469, member: 3954"] Our group has two seperate modes we like to call "With Steve" and "Without Steve". Steve is an individual who won't shut up about anything. He starts telling stories about campaigns he was in eight years ago when someone does something that reminds him of them. He interrupts the DM to tell him how he would resolve things. He tells us about his other characters. If everyone else is busy or won't listen, he will walk into the other room because 'it wasn't his turn' and then not know what is going on (sometimes with disasterous results, like when he gets stuck in my Glue spell I cast or slips on my Grease, gets in the way when I communicate to the other characters that I want to cast an area spell, or attacks something we had stopped attacking and gotten to surrender). The DM can't control him - or won't. The other players, the DM's roommates, won't let me be too critical of the DM or suggest that I should take control of the game to stop it. I'm stuck trying to speak over him or interrupt to say 'let's focus on our [I]current[/I] situation, not something that happened to you eight years ago' or reminding the DM where we were at and having both of us try to awaken the players from a Steve-induced trance (DC 25). Fortunately, Steve is probably not going to be able to keep playing with us every week, if at all, from today on out. With Steve, half our time is blown. Of that time wasted, a third is probably him telling pointless stories, another third telling the DM what he would do if he were DM or rules lawyering, and another third is wasted by telling other characters what they should do or getting mad at them because he doesn't pay attention until his turn during combat and walks into something stupid. Without Steve, we don't spend nearly as much time looking things up or arguing rules/judgements. Our first eight sessions or so of this campaign were peacefully 'without Steve'. I really hope we can continue to be 'Without Steve' if he's going to keep acting this way. [/QUOTE]
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