Is it OK to...

[tonym]

If the Player was merely roleplaying his character, you might consider cutting him some slack.

For example: Last year I was running a mouthy, semi-annoying PC. The party he was in had accepted an assignment to help protect a small fort located in the wilderness. So we arrive there and discover that the NPC in charge of the fort was doing a crappy job on defense. Heck, she hadn't even built a gate for the wall! So my mouthy PC says, while pointing at a fellow PC, "He should be in charge of this fort's defense! Not you! He is qualified in tactics and such, and you obviously are NOT! No wonder your men have been getting killed!"

The NPC smacks my PC across the mouth and threatens to have him executed for insubordination, so my mouthy PC shuts his yap.

Roleplaying!



Tony

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Well, thanks for the advice all.

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[ledded]

An example would be one of my arrogant Pcs hearing about a very powerful general that leads the army of the kingdom they are in. And they get the chance to meet them. And then challenge them because he beleives he would be better.

Oh, do so, but make sure that the PC understands what may come of it beforehand. Personally, I would have the NPC give the PC a sound thrashing, taunting and insulting him the whole while, until he disabled (but did not kill) him. It will teach the PC a lesson while creating an NPC that your players will truly hate later, something that can be a lot of fun to play with, without downright killing the PC in question.

I remember during a 3E D&d campaign, I introduced a new character to a campaign who was a 2nd level dwarven cleric. The groups insanely strong 4th level human barbarian took to taunting and insulting said cleric for quite some time, who (after taking the DM aside and seeing if he was ok with it) threw up his fists and said " 'ats enough laddie, yer takin' yer medicine now boyo".

The barbarian laughed until the second round, when the dwarf dove at him head-first and headbutted him in the giblits for max damage on a crit, and he passed out cold.

Sometimes a potential bully gets what they deserve .