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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2469135" data-attributes="member: 17296">It's probably something in the way that I run it that makes it turn out that way. One thing I definitely do is emphasise that there HAS to be a role-playing reason. You can't just randomly kill someone and expect to get anything but punished for it. And that, IMO, is THE best way to handle someone who won't give a hook into the party. If there's no reason for him to come along, then he can stay there at the inn/tavern/wherever the party met him. If he wants to PLAY, he'll have to do so. I've only had that happen a few times. I usually follow it up with telling everyone to role-play their characters well, and I'll let them know that it really looks like the people being bullied are going to have to do some role-play to counter this. In fact, the above meantioned time that did lead to PKing was something like this. Not quite so drastic, but one PC bullying a weaker one (Fighter bullying a roguish mage). The weaker PC's player asked people to make it stop... the other PC's didn't, I told them all that as a GM I'll allow the PC's to do whatever, including bullying or killing other PC's. When I was asked again in private why I didn't stop it, I asked him why HE didn't stop it. The other guy's got to sleep sometime, right?But in general it happens very rarely. When the players see how I handle interparty conflict, they try harder to make the party get along. Because, as a majrity of people have said, in general PKing isn't fun. And a smart group will eventually figure that out... or, if they don't, it's because it IS fun. And really it's a lot less work for me as a GM if they make all the monsters up themselves (ie, other PC's).</blockquote>

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