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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6645502" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya.&nbsp;Honestly, if talking to the guy isn't gonna change his evil ways... take one aspect, a big one, of the adventure and change it. You don't have time to do the whole thing, I get that. But you probably have a few minutes every day or so to type out a few notes and changes.For example, if the adventure has some NPC with a &quot;big secret&quot;, as you said a few pages ago, think of a different secret he could have...oh, and change &quot;he&quot; to &quot;she&quot;. Then, before the PC's can zero in on that NPC who they &quot;know has the secret&quot; (due to Mr.SuperSelfConscious)...kill the NPC dead! I guarantee the look on the face of Mr.SSC there will be priceless! In one fell swoop, you just showed him that reading the adventure is pointless, and acting on it even moreso. He will likley be thinking &quot;Oh, great, now how are we supposed to find out about The Hidden Cave of Secrets?!?&quot;... he may even blurt that out. In short, have his acting on &quot;insider info&quot; turn out to be outright false or shift it to something else. This will serve a few purposes. First, as I said above, it shows him it's pointless to pre-read the adventure. Second, it shows him you are in control of the major aspects of the plot line (and lets face it, HotDQ and RoT are plot-lines... not a lot of variation). Third, and last, it may just outright frustrate him enough that he chooses to leave the group. I can easily see him saying something like &quot;Well, there's no point to playing, really....not if the DM is just going to change things willy-nilly when he fells like it!&quot; (...fully and completely oblivious to the hypocrisy of his words, of course).Or...just keep killing his characters so he spends all his time making new characters so he can't interfere with the other players as they actually play the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(OK, ignore that last part...I guess...yeah...that'd just be mean and spitefull...amusing, but mean... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 6645502, member: 45197"] Hiya. Honestly, if talking to the guy isn't gonna change his evil ways... take one aspect, a big one, of the adventure and change it. You don't have time to do the whole thing, I get that. But you probably have a few minutes every day or so to type out a few notes and changes. For example, if the adventure has some NPC with a "big secret", as you said a few pages ago, think of a [I]different[/I] secret he could have...oh, and change "he" to "she". Then, before the PC's can zero in on that NPC who they "know has the secret" (due to Mr.SuperSelfConscious)...[I]kill the NPC dead![/I] I guarantee the look on the face of Mr.SSC there will be priceless! In one fell swoop, you just showed him that reading the adventure is pointless, and acting on it even moreso. He will likley be thinking "Oh, great, now how are we supposed to find out about The Hidden Cave of Secrets?!?"... he may even blurt that out. In short, have his acting on "insider info" turn out to be outright false or shift it to something else. This will serve a few purposes. First, as I said above, it shows him it's pointless to pre-read the adventure. Second, it shows him [I]you[/I] are in control of the major aspects of the plot line (and lets face it, HotDQ and RoT are plot-[I]lines[/I]... not a lot of variation). Third, and last, it may just outright frustrate him enough that he chooses to leave the group. I can easily see him saying something like [I]"Well, there's no point to playing, really....not if the DM is just going to change things willy-nilly when he fells like it!"[/I] (...fully and completely oblivious to the hypocrisy of his words, of course). Or...just keep killing his characters so he spends all his time making new characters so he can't interfere with the other players as they actually play the game. ;) (OK, ignore that last part...I guess...yeah...that'd just be mean and spitefull...amusing, but mean... ;) ). ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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