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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6773147" data-attributes="member: 205">The game isn't giving the player incentive for or against the undesired behavior.  The game is giving guidelines, and the player is using those guidelines in a manner that is causing game friction.Honestly, I'm starting to feel like this whole scenario is some comedy of manners.  If you don't want the player to do X, then tell the player to not do X, because it's messing up the game.   You seem to have this idea that because the player is roleplaying well, that suddenly means that any problems the group has is because of the game design, because gosh darn it, the player is really is in character!  The game does not presume that roleplaying within a character class's general parameters suddenly means that the entire party will have no conflicts as to their goals and purposes.  Well, you've already ruled out house-ruling, and you don't want the character to stop playing his character that way because you've had a conversation that it's impacting the game.  Are you looking for, what, narrative consequences?  Those seem trivial to generate considering the amount of ill-will the PC must be generating in-game.  Is he willing to face down entire villages in pursuit of his Spanish Prohibition?  Or accept devils cozying up to him to offer him power to continue his crusade?</blockquote>