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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mummolus" data-source="post: 5555051" data-attributes="member: 94657">Chances are, the more you demonize the people he wants to play as, the more he wants to play them. It is, in fact, exactly like drow.I had an issue like this with one of the players in my Dark Sun campaign, who insisted on playing a templar no matter what. I threw some dried-up memory moss in an ancient ruin that gave them flashbacks of the last person it caught, a templar who used slaves to fuel his rituals (via arcane defiling). Suddenly after reading the "flashbacks" I'd written (different ones for each character having them) as they entered each subsequent room before an extended rest and learning where and how those undead they're fighting came from, the player in question wasn't so eager to be an evil templar. It turned from a "screw the party from within" arc for the character to a redemption plot. In short, find something that bothers the player and drive it home. Something they're not desensitized to, or something they hadn't considered (scents or sounds are good choices for this - people think battles and death are cool because Hollywood shows them as such, but there's less consideration given to the smell of such things since it can't be "experienced on screen"). Ideally something that isn't cliched like "oh dead baby" or even "broken families". Maybe let him play it the way he wants, and then introduce an npc who survived torture, and bears the marks or describes it in some detail. Maybe a magical compulsion that causes blinding pain whenever the npc smiles. Something appropriate for the setting.</blockquote>

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