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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 339127" data-attributes="member: 813">Well, that's unfortunate. In games I'm involved with two players will come into the game (not on purpose) with opposed personalities. It's fun to watch the interplay. Both players know that in-character is just that part of the game. In another game, one player would constantly try to ignore one player or override his decisions without explanation. The DM merely smiled whenever this happened (since the player gave him a background story). Then we went into the dwarven mine and that character became very withdrawn. The character he had been ignoring or overbearing toward was a dwarf and nobody had picked up on the fact the character had a deep prejudice about dwarves because the player didn't just come out and say "I hate dwarves." Instead he played the prejudice. (I do believe the player let the dwavf's player in on it after the second session just so he would know not to take it personally.) It was really well played. And once it became obvious we could see how well he had been playing the character up to that point. A few sessions later we finally got to hear from him in-character about why he didn't like dwarves. It actually turned out he was just a touch xenophobic and his distain for the half-elf wasn't as noticable. But in retrospect he had done similar things to the half-elf as he had done to the dwarf.I've wandered. In any case, two characters can have deep rooted dislike for one another and still play at the same table when it's done maturely. I can't agree that it's ALL personal.Joe</blockquote>

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