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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RedTonic" data-source="post: 5565758" data-attributes="member: 98994">Sounds like the drama in my high school gaming group. I'm so glad I'm past puberty now. But this is going on into... College? I'm just guessing--roommate thing n' all.Recommend (kindly) to the DM that she set aside some time in the next session to address concerns about rebalancing the game. You shouldn't give up a character you enjoy playing because another player is overreacting about the DM's request for advice. I'm sure if the flippin'-out player can be plied with some pizza, beer, or xanax long enough for him to calm down, she can soothe him with the explanation that she really just wanted suggestions on how to scale the encounters better--or perhaps she actually wanted reassurance that you were all having fun plowing through battles. Nobody needs to give anything up in that situation. A sacrifice need not be burned.On the other hand, I do think the dwarf's player needs to straighten up. Perhaps it's time for you and he to have a heart to heart about why he's sabotaging the game--and make no mistake, he is sabotaging the game. That action is what a number of other commenters in this thread have described. He's worried that you'll have badwrongfun and he's doing everything in his power to prevent you from having it. Besides taking schadenfreude, he's probably not really enjoying the game as well as he could be due to his own actions. Talk to him about why he's acting that way, and don't let him use "being in character" as an excuse. He controls his character; if he says differently, he needs to stop lying or seek therapy--perhaps both.Meanwhile, consider the following: in character actions mean in character consequences. It sounds like your DM has done well on that score thus far--but your DM doesn't shoulder the entire weight of the game world. Eventually, your characters will learn that he did this. Or he will do something similarly heinous and he won't be able to hide it. This should have been nipped in the bud once he killed a LG being; now he's running amok.Next thing you know, the dwarf will be knifing halfling kindergartners.</blockquote>

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