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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 2878358" data-attributes="member: 18701">You seem to view D&D like me: it's a world and I want to live in it. Your player views D&D simply as a video game. Nothing wrong with either view, but they don't mix well at all.I would say that you don't have to kick him out. Just keep enforcing your preferred gamestyle at the table and he will eventually leave on his own. Powergamers & ruleslawyers you can deal with, but a guy that treats it as a video game is harder to cater to and keep everyone happy.I've had a player like that (my co-worker). I introduced him to D&D. He liked it at first but he got tired of it soon because he couldn't get out of thinking of it as a video game. If I DM'ed it differently, I know he would have a blast. But that's not the way I DM and that isn't the type of game we play at our table.What I've learned with conflicting gaming styles....the players never seem to last. If you keep trying to get him into your style of gaming, you may get lucky and he'll finally latch on and enjoy it. But most likely he'll just stop showing up.</blockquote>