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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3298191" data-attributes="member: 37198">Borderline?I think that's true to a degree.  One of the cool things about roleplaying is getting to do stuff you normally wouldn't, couldn't, or would be tried as an adult for.But the real problem as it appears in this case is your fellow player is a control freak and a prick, and as such, the problem isn't the paladin, its people aren't playing the way he wants them to.  Which is his problem.  Its the group's problem to the extent they are willing to let themselves be bullied over it.I mentioned earlier I just got done playing a pallie in an grey Eberron game, and in the third session the group nearly turned on itself about what to do with some Valenar elves we had captured raiding villages in the Talenta Plains.  Half the group wanted to turn them in to the halfings, the other half wanted to release the elves into the wild sans gear, and let nature sort them out.  It turned into a session of character debate that bled into player debate, that ended with the cleric attacking the monk.  So I've been there.  (What eventually happened was the cleric set the prisoners free one night when he and a sympathetic character were on watch, the elves came back later that night and tried to kill us-- or get us to kill them so they could die in honorable combat-- we recaptured them, turned them into the halflings, and then the halflings turned them loose in the jungles with no gear.  So in retrospect, it's kind of funny how it worked out.)Anyway, the surest way I've found to people getting angry at the table is the frustration of trying to change something they don't like as a player using only their character's actions.  Because characters don't have that much influence over the game.  A lot of the time, things would go much more smoothly between the people at the table if they put the dice down and said, "I don't want to spend the whole session arguing about this.  Why don't we try to find a way for our characters to work together on this?"Characters arguing is fine.  Its roleplaying.  Players arguing is drama, and who needs that?</blockquote>

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