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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EroGaki" data-source="post: 4571526" data-attributes="member: 57909">I need to get this off my chest. First, I'm not the DM, I'm one of the players. We have a guy in our group, let's call him Fred. Fred is, overall, a good guy; his roleplaying is excellent and he doesn't miss game. The problem is that not a single game will go by without him getting a hair up his a#@ about something. Once this happens, he will get a big time additude and either rant for an hour, or sulk, effectively killing the mood and putting a strain on everyone elses enjoyment. I mean, he will sit there, pointedly reading a book, while a dark cloud will hover overhead. So far, I have been able to pinpoint some of the causes to Fred's episodes:1. If anyone ignores his character. Fred is very serious about his characters. Serious to the point that if he isn't constantly in the spot light, or if, god's forbid, some one elses character is doing some neat, he will get upset. Mr. Lookatme just HAS to be center stage, all the time.2. Anytime the DM throws us for a loop or surprises us with a new monster. For example, we encountered a unique, one of a kind outsider. We managed to kill it with out any character deaths. BUT, naturally Fred was upset because the outsider was something he had never heard of, so of course the DM is being cheap and trying to kill us...I, on the other hand, really enjoyed the fight, even though I dropped into negative hp; a refreshing encounter with a horrific monster is one of the coolest things in D&D. It was awesome to fight something new instead of another orc or ogre. 3. Anytime we are challenged Fred gets offended. Really offended, almost to the point that he feels that the DM is persnally attacking him. Fred feels that we should be gods, all the time. He doesn't say this, but I know he thinks it; whenever something is strong enough to be a threat, whenever something has to potential to kill us, he huffs and puffs and throws a temper tantrum. It's really quite annoying.For instance, our characters have been defending a small town from an assault from stone giants. The DM has been logical and fair in all accounts. The rest of us are enjoying the challenge. But then there's Fred, being a kill joy as usual. He spent about 80% of both sessions sulking and silently killing the mood with his tantrum. And the reasons for this? A) He is using up most of his spells! Gasp! The DM is in the wrong because he is making his character actually use most of his magic. Even though the DM said at the start that this would be the only encounter for the day, so we need not fear using all of our resources.B) The giants not dying right on the spot. The DM is producing extra cheddar because stone giants can shrug off his fireball. Nevermind the average stone giant has 119 hp.Now, I'll be the first to admit that people have bad days. Sometimes, you are in a bad mood or your day sucked and you lash out. It happens to the best of us. But Fred's crap is near constant. Almost every game in the last several months has produced this behavior. It is extremely childish and annoying. Fred is the oldest of the group, being in his ealy 30's. Yet it's like gaming with a 5 year old who whines whenever he doesn't get his way.I try my best to ignore him when he is like this (which is often), but it is getting worse. He is ruining the fun of everyone else, to a lesser or greater degree.Thank for reading. I've been carrying that for a while and needed to get it off my chest. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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