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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 212765" data-attributes="member: 2">Back in the early days of 2e, I had one player who was really frustrating. A rules lawyer with almost no interpersonal skills, he'd gladly turn on party members at the drop of a hat.After his PC was killed, he brought in a halfling thief. A halfling thief whose highest skill (by far) was pick pockets. And, as everyone in the group guessed, a halfling thief whose personal goal was to rob the party blind and then flee.He was very inquisitive... stealing party treasure and reading everything he could in the hopes it would grant him more power. The PC playing the wizard decided to eliminate the headache. They were in drow caverns, and he passes me a note, &quot;I cast explosive runes on a drow dagger and subtlety drop it.&quot;&nbsp; Sure enough, I mention that the halfling sees a dagger on the ground near a wall.&quot;Mine!&quot; he yells. &quot;I pick it up. Does it feel magical?&quot;&quot;Well, it's made out of adamantine,&quot; I answer.&quot;Yeah!&quot; He turns to gloat at the other players. &quot;Suckers, I saw it first.&quot; Then he turns back to me. &quot;Is there anything on the blade?&quot;I answer, &quot;Why, yes. Yes there is. A rune of some kind.&quot;He says, &quot;Yeah! I read it. What does it say?&quot;I answer, &quot;Boom!&nbsp; It's explosive runes. Make a... whoops, no saving throw if you read it.&quot;&nbsp; I roll dice, and the halfling drops to -19. See ya.&nbsp; Best PC assassination I've ever seen, poor guy.Later, he said, &quot;Man. I make one comment about you being easy on players, and you kill my character!&quot; I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't really me.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 212765, member: 2"] Back in the early days of 2e, I had one player who was [i]really[/i] frustrating. A rules lawyer with almost no interpersonal skills, he'd gladly turn on party members at the drop of a hat. After his PC was killed, he brought in a halfling thief. A halfling thief whose highest skill (by far) was pick pockets. And, as everyone in the group guessed, a halfling thief whose personal goal was to rob the party blind and then flee. He was very inquisitive... stealing party treasure and reading everything he could in the hopes it would grant him more power. The PC playing the wizard decided to eliminate the headache. They were in drow caverns, and he passes me a note, "I cast [i]explosive runes[/i] on a drow dagger and subtlety drop it." Sure enough, I mention that the halfling sees a dagger on the ground near a wall. "Mine!" he yells. "I pick it up. Does it feel magical?" "Well, it's made out of adamantine," I answer. "Yeah!" He turns to gloat at the other players. "Suckers, I saw it first." Then he turns back to me. "Is there anything on the blade?" I answer, "Why, yes. Yes there is. A rune of some kind." He says, "Yeah! I read it. What does it say?" I answer, "Boom! It's [i]explosive runes[/i]. Make a... whoops, no saving throw if you read it." I roll dice, and the halfling drops to -19. See ya. Best PC assassination I've ever seen, poor guy. Later, he said, "Man. I make one comment about you being easy on players, and you kill my character!" I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't really me. :D [/QUOTE]

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