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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 1662930" data-attributes="member: 18832">Sometimes a person's style of play can be as disruptive as getting trashed and chattering at no-one in particular.I once played with someone who had:* Created a PC with goals and attitudes wildly divergent from the rest of the party.* Come to the game expecting her boyfriend, the DM, to cater every session to the fulfilment of her character's goals, despite the fact that she was joining a game which had been running for about nine months.* The terrible habit of confusing other PCs' attitudes towards her PC (the party was mostly evil and didn't make nice with each other, even though there was no open conflict) with either the other players' attitudes towards her PC or, worse, the players' attitudes towards her!* In a separate game, run by someone else, created yet another PC that didn't fit in with the group (even though she was in it from the beginning) and, when dissatisfied with her character's ability at 2nd level to manipulate people socially as she imagined her character should, demanded to be allowed to use a base class from a different d20 game which fit her vision better.Luckily, once the first campaign ended and she was no longer playing with a DM who would listen to her complain about how there wasn't anything for her to do and her character sucked (all this while simultaneously crowing about her massive Diplomacy modifiers and Charisma!), she figured out that the best course of action in a game you're not enjoying is to quit.She's still just as friendly with everyone in the game and our social group - though admittedly I'm not sure whether this would be true if she'd been asked to leave - but those she played with spent a year bitching to each other about her in private and lamenting the first DM's indulgence of her, which just goes to show how dangerous geek social fallacies can be. We started to despise her because we despised her playing style, and I reckon it's better to lose them as a fellow player than as a friend.</blockquote>

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