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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 4987867" data-attributes="member: 75065">I have players with very different play styles. Two of the players, whose characters roles just happen to be leaders (a bard and a cleric) happen to not like each other all that much in real life. The Cleric plays a good pc who trys without much success to coordinate the other players and the Bard a neutral pc who tends towards cowardly decisions based on self-preservation and at other times reckless decisions that lead to rather painful consequences. On our second to last gaming session things got very tense and everyone went home with a bad taste in their mouth including myself. It happened just before the holidays, and for one reason or another we hadn't played for nearly 3 months. I'm not sure myself how to handle the situation. It's work in progress. I've apologised for my part in the tension (I think I made the encounter too complicated, with 3 simultaneous skill challenges at once with battle and constant increasing hazards) and I have proposed that the players find motivations as a group, something in common that unites them and to find a way to make decisions as a group when there is a diffence of opinion. I think with the space, the tempers have calmed and this saturday we'll be having our second session since the conflict. With sick babies and levelling up, dispersed concentration was the biggest feature of the first seesion back. I guess we'll see if there is any improvement this next session. Anyway, communication seems like the only decent solution or a good start to understanding what the problem is. Warning that going by yourself is very dangerous, from what you say, this hasn't worked. Maybe something like this would be more effective: 'When the party splits this causes me discomfort and stress as a DM. I don't enjoy it at all. It's hard enough concentrating on one thing at a time let alone having to divide my attention between two things at once. You're within your rights to take any decision you want but please do it together. Thanks.'</blockquote>

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