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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 6358108" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>Hmm, now I can't wait for one of my players to be disrespectful again. I need to remember to respond with a scenario like that. I don't know why I haven't thought of that before. As always, you never think of the obvious until someone else points it out.</p><p></p><p>I seem to handle the situation similar to everyone else here. I'm just bored of running my NPCs in those ways (start attacking, send in minions, coming back later for revenge, using spells to shut them up, etc, etc). The duel challenge is one I have not done yet though. That would actually be exciting for my players, even if the smartarse does get a whooping.</p><p></p><p>I've always had players disrespect the BBEGs. But I'm getting a bit flustered with my current group over a version of this problem that is going in a direction that I'm not used to dealing with as a DM. I enjoy the players, they add a lot of fun to the game, but most of them are new to the group and they are turning the campaign into a much sillier game than I wish it to be. Everyone seems to enjoy the silliness, so I'm hesitant to speak up about it, especially since I've already asked them to tone it down because I didn't want the game to end up with Jar Jar Binks & Roger Rabbit as the star PCs. I guess my point was not taken and they have a different idea about what is slapstick and what is not.</p><p></p><p>It makes it extremely hard to roleplay NPCs in a serious manner when they act like this. They even disrespect good NPCs with their "humor". I try to respond in a way that makes sense, but it is a struggle for me. There is a running gag going where they insist on some bafoonery every single time they meet a new (important?)<em> friendly</em> NPC. They are not insulting, but think along the lines of how a scene would look if Roger Rabbit was part of the Fellowship and meeting Elrond to discuss what to do with the ring. And now the conversations with any possible bad guy involves silly insults about their looks, or name, or whatever. It's not fitting like Hellboy calling a guy ugly, it's more like a schoolyard kid would do in an immature and dismissive manner. </p><p></p><p>I really don't want to come up with ways to deal with this every encounter. I'm pretty sure that most of their fun comes from seeing how my NPCs will react to it. <strong>Slapstick</strong> comedy is also not the type of campaign I'm interested in DMing, but I seem to be the only one at the table that has an issue with it. So I've been trying to suck it up since I feel that players would probably think I'm picking on them if I mention the slapstick issue again. Like I'm being a buzzkill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 6358108, member: 18701"] Hmm, now I can't wait for one of my players to be disrespectful again. I need to remember to respond with a scenario like that. I don't know why I haven't thought of that before. As always, you never think of the obvious until someone else points it out. I seem to handle the situation similar to everyone else here. I'm just bored of running my NPCs in those ways (start attacking, send in minions, coming back later for revenge, using spells to shut them up, etc, etc). The duel challenge is one I have not done yet though. That would actually be exciting for my players, even if the smartarse does get a whooping. I've always had players disrespect the BBEGs. But I'm getting a bit flustered with my current group over a version of this problem that is going in a direction that I'm not used to dealing with as a DM. I enjoy the players, they add a lot of fun to the game, but most of them are new to the group and they are turning the campaign into a much sillier game than I wish it to be. Everyone seems to enjoy the silliness, so I'm hesitant to speak up about it, especially since I've already asked them to tone it down because I didn't want the game to end up with Jar Jar Binks & Roger Rabbit as the star PCs. I guess my point was not taken and they have a different idea about what is slapstick and what is not. It makes it extremely hard to roleplay NPCs in a serious manner when they act like this. They even disrespect good NPCs with their "humor". I try to respond in a way that makes sense, but it is a struggle for me. There is a running gag going where they insist on some bafoonery every single time they meet a new (important?)[I] friendly[/I] NPC. They are not insulting, but think along the lines of how a scene would look if Roger Rabbit was part of the Fellowship and meeting Elrond to discuss what to do with the ring. And now the conversations with any possible bad guy involves silly insults about their looks, or name, or whatever. It's not fitting like Hellboy calling a guy ugly, it's more like a schoolyard kid would do in an immature and dismissive manner. I really don't want to come up with ways to deal with this every encounter. I'm pretty sure that most of their fun comes from seeing how my NPCs will react to it. [B]Slapstick[/B] comedy is also not the type of campaign I'm interested in DMing, but I seem to be the only one at the table that has an issue with it. So I've been trying to suck it up since I feel that players would probably think I'm picking on them if I mention the slapstick issue again. Like I'm being a buzzkill. [/QUOTE]
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