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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6600689" data-attributes="member: 92305">We had an annoying player once, back in the day (not the only annoying player ever--just a story that has stuck with me).  The guy was a min-maxer, playing a Paladin because of the perks, not for role playing reasons.  He just didn't fit wit the rest of the group.  He was a loot whore, too.  Everywhere the group went, this dude--who's supposed to be a Paladin--made sure that ever inch of ever room we ever entered was checked for loot and secret passages.  If we saw a monster--or even the threat of one--he'd charge in to fight it, expecting the entire group to follow.  The concept of parlay and avoidance was foreign to him.Well, the rest of the group got sick of this guy (though he did have one ally in the group--the cleric, who was a roleplayer playing a character of the same faith as the Paladin).  The Thief in our party took it on himself to rid of this annoying character (not all Paladins...THIS Paladin).  It was after a fight in a field with some basilisks.  The Paladin was doing his thing, thinking that there might be a chance for a nest with loot.  The Thief sprinkled Dust of Sneezing and Choking (this is back in 1E AD&D days....IIRC, there's no save---it's instant death) on the Cleric, because the roleplayer would stop the Thief from doing what he was doing.  Then, the Thief sneaked up behind the Paladin as he was looking for the basilisk next, used his Rope of Entanglement to confine the Paladin.  Then, the Thief pull out his Bag of Devouring and promptly slipped it over the Paladin's head.The DM described how the Paladin screamed and jerked around, then went limp.I laughed and laughed.The player of the Paladin stayed with the game, but his next character was a dwarf fighter, and this guy....was played differently.  We all kinda liked the dwarf.I guess the message got through to the player.And, we all had a better game for it.</blockquote>

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