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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2543211" data-attributes="member: 7240">Can you give us some examples of the character-campaign mismatches here? Your description could fit one of about five situations so more details/examples would help.This seems inconsisent with what you've said above so details would definitely be useful. If he's sufficiently invested in his character to be like this, it sounds like his play isn't frivolous by any stretch.As others have said. A rules change will clear this right up.I have and occasionally am a player like this. And I have a suggestion here. My feeling is that this guy can only be totally domineering "in character;" only his character can deliver 15-minute monologues shouting the whole time and then essentially make the other players do whatever he wants for fear of being subjected to another one. So, I recommend this: having the party make decisions about what course of action to take out of character. If he's participating in the discussion as himself rather than his character, in all likelihood it will be a more egalitarian discussion.You can see how getting decisions to be made out of character can clean this right up. It seems to me that this is best addressed socially rather than mechanically. A simple "I kind of want to see what happens next might send things in the right direction." Have people tried this? What has been his reaction?What do you mean? His concepts sound silly and intensely lame. What happens when these character concepts are turned down? How does he react? What is meant by "unwilling to play anything else"? Does he ever threaten to quit the game if he can't? If not, how does he express this unwillingness?Well, the part of your post I don't quote I don't quote because I agree with it 100%. The dinner guest comparison should be used more often to detect what kind of problem is going on in a game. However, what good could come of knowing what real world issue this guy's psychological problem is attached to? Besides, it may be that this condition is uncaused. Some people are just like that. Anyway, I suspect that problem player #2 may simply be too socially dysfunctional to be part of your group. And so I have the feeling our various recommendations will fail. However, I am curious about what he is like at a dinner party or other non-gaming gathering for this reason.</blockquote>

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