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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ellie_the_Elf" data-source="post: 2547839" data-attributes="member: 17018">I'm the DM in Devlin_Stormweaver's game - some of you might remember me posting a thread about problem players a few weeks back....well, this dwarf is played by one of those players- the problem is I think he gets a little *too* into his character, so because his dwarf is loud and overbearing, that's how he play sometimes. He interrupts when the party's split to search a room or something and I'm talking with someone else about what they're doing, stuff like that. He also has a tendency to try to skip through any roleplaying encounters to get to the killing, but claims to play for the roleplaying aspects.(Incidentally, for those who do remember my thread, the psion who was causing me headaches is no more, and his player has now made a fighter who's fitting in fine)But anyway, I've considered kicking the dwarf player out, but most of the group is against it to varying degrees- their argument is that since he is new to our group we need to give him a chance to get used to us and how we play. Maybe they're right *shrugs*We also have backseat DMing problems from one or two players. I have one player who likes rules very much who frequently tries to overrule me. I tend more towards a rules-only-when- they're necessary approach.Most of this, when discussed, has been put down to me being argumentative (which is true) and there have been veiled suggestions that I'm overreacting since I'm a girl and that's what we do (which may or may not be true, but is still annoying). Pretty much everyone agrees that most of the players have one or two extremely annoying playing habits, but none of us, myself included, really considers any one player to be enough trouble on their own to be kicked out. So anyway- we have an interesting group dynamic! Sometimes it's like Jerry Springer with dice, but mostly we have fun when we play.The paladin detected evil on the goblin kids, which came up as faintly evil. He was debating whether to take them along and try to redeem them or to leave them to fend for themselves when the dwarf took matters into his own hands. The dwarf is a cleric of Moradin by the way.I may warn the dwarf about a possible alignment shift if he keeps attacking helpless foes. Since I only allow good alignments (after too many neutral PCs who saw any kind of neutral alignment to mean they could play chaotic evil without being smited by paladins), this would mean his character got NPC'd. Trouble is, I know exactly what he'll say- that goblins are his racial enemy, that he's been fighting them all his life (both of which are in his backstory) - and he's therefore justified in attacking them, because with his background, the only good goblin is a dead goblin. And I can see his point, but I also see Devlin's.....So I guess I'm really looking for advice on the whole mess too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ellie.</blockquote>

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