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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scorponox" data-source="post: 5613504" data-attributes="member: 93144">I myself am pretty new to DMing, only having a year's experience. Fortunately, this hasn't happened to my group, but if it did, you could always use a deus ex machina on them.Basically, what I'd do is have some of the townsfolk start talking about it, then it eventually gets back to the superior officers of the Cleric and Paladin. They would then sit them both down and tell them in no uncertain terms that the mission is too critical to be hamstrung by in-fighting, and they need to get their act together, or there will be severe repercussions. If the fighting continues after that, the high priest or whoever is in charge can pray to the deity to take away the spells of the offending player. Because the Cleric attacked first, the officer in charge of the cleric would tell her she is being fined 10% of her earnings for the next x months. Also, instead of splitting the party, I'd just say to the offending players, "Ok, make new characters, I have an interesting idea, and I will use these as NPCs in the story. And turn it into a "choose your own adventure" module via email. Like ask them via email what your Paladin is planning, and then make scenarios where they have to choose. (There may be an evil wizard in the fortress....does Paladin abandon the mission to go after the wizard, or continue to seek revenge against the Cleric?) And for the Cleric - Cleric finds out Paladin is chasing after the wizard, do you follow, or try to complete the mission before he does. They would essentially have two characters in the campaign world, but only be in control of the original Paladin and Cleric as NPCs. And you can keep your main session with new characters. Eventually, you can have the two original characters fight it out, to the death, and that will bring closure to both characters. The winner can then choose which character they want as their "main" one, and the DM can NPC the other for more story hooks in the future.This will make it so they are still both in control of the destinies of their characters, and I don't think they'll feel slighted if both their characters are still part of the story, but for practicality sakes, you'd like to have everyone adventure together.</blockquote>

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