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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharivious_Meliamne" data-source="post: 2560114">One problem is a character that always has the easy answer for another character's problem and attempts to impose such a thing on them, thus depriving the player with the problem of a potentially fun and interesting roleplaying opportunity.I'm not talking about a character who specializes in the task at hand being able to solve the problem, but to those who have nothing to do with the situation at hand in most cases.  If someone has spent their lifetime focusing on a certain type of rare lizard and a group is looking for information, and talking about how badly they need the information, offering the information to the players is one thing and I recommend that, but even if the character is an expert on it, that's no liscence to give the characters their goal either.For example, and if the set up is familiar, it's because this is how I write examples, heh, and I've had this happen to my character, so that might also explain it.Cleric_01 wants a rare sort of feather for a set of specially made arrows.  She's having Rogue_01 make these arrows, and asks for this type of feather.  And so, as they're discussing how to obtain the feathers, Snert_01 shows up and says "I've got a ton of those at home, let me go get them.", and walks off to a random portal, only to return a matter of seconds later with a handful of the feathers and says, "Here you go."Meanwhile, Cleric_01 and Rogue_01 are sitting there still talking about how to get these feathers if Snert_01 doesn't actually have them, in a vain attempt at disuading Snert_01's player  to not bring those feathers back, hoping that he will catch on that there is a task at hand that Rogue_01 wanted to undetake himself, and was more than capable of doing on his own.  But does Snert_01 realize it?  Of course not, and so Rogue_01 is stuck with no reason to go through with the planned RPing, as the goal is already set out for him on the table he sits at.Amazing how one mistake like having the answer to everything can affect other players' ideas, isn't it?</blockquote>

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