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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8308563" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I had a player once that went out of his way to thwart anything I had planned.&nbsp; If there was a plot hook meant for him, he'd ignore it.&nbsp; The signs all said go right he'd go left.&nbsp; For example the group was visiting a dwarven keep and the dwarves were rushing around talking about finding something they had lost.&nbsp; Basically a typical plot hook designed for a dwarven PC.&nbsp; He went up to the commander organizing the party of dwarves and told him in no uncertain terms he wasn't interested.&nbsp; The response was &quot;We didn't ask for your help, what the **** are you talking about?&quot;So that should have been it, right?&nbsp; I have no problem with PCs not being interested in possible threads.&nbsp; But then the guy gloated while laughing that he hadn't been dumb enough to take me up on a side quest custom designed for him.&nbsp; He was proud of himself that once again, he had made me waste time prepping for something that he refused to bite.&nbsp; That wasn't really an issue because I hadn't really prepared much more than a handful of notes just in case and I've always run a very improvisational game anyway (even though people don't realize it).Nowadays I'd just take him aside after the game and have a chat with him about it and probably politely ask him to find another game.&nbsp; Fortunately he didn't last much longer after that because he just wanted a game where the PCs sat around in a tavern and &quot;things happened&quot;.&nbsp; Not sure what that meant exactly because either the DM throw out plot hooks and the players pursue them or the PCs sit around in the tavern drinking until they can't pay their bill and get kicked out.On the other hand at least he wasn't playing a 7 ft tall albino elf with no weapons or spells of any kind.&nbsp; Nor did he want to play a half dragon half vampire with a cape that fluttered in the nonexistent wind.&nbsp; Ah well, those players weren't problematic ... just odd.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8308563, member: 6801845"] I had a player once that went out of his way to thwart anything I had planned. If there was a plot hook meant for him, he'd ignore it. The signs all said go right he'd go left. For example the group was visiting a dwarven keep and the dwarves were rushing around talking about finding something they had lost. Basically a typical plot hook designed for a dwarven PC. He went up to the commander organizing the party of dwarves and told him in no uncertain terms he wasn't interested. The response was "We didn't ask for your help, what the **** are you talking about?" So that should have been it, right? I have no problem with PCs not being interested in possible threads. But then the guy [I]gloated[/I] while laughing that he hadn't been dumb enough to take me up on a side quest custom designed for him. He was proud of himself that once again, he had made me waste time prepping for something that he refused to bite. That wasn't really an issue because I hadn't really prepared much more than a handful of notes just in case and I've always run a very improvisational game anyway (even though people don't realize it). Nowadays I'd just take him aside after the game and have a chat with him about it and probably politely ask him to find another game. Fortunately he didn't last much longer after that because he just wanted a game where the PCs sat around in a tavern and "things happened". Not sure what that meant exactly because either the DM throw out plot hooks and the players pursue them or the PCs sit around in the tavern drinking until they can't pay their bill and get kicked out. On the other hand at least he wasn't playing a 7 ft tall albino elf with no weapons or spells of any kind. Nor did he want to play a half dragon half vampire with a cape that fluttered in the nonexistent wind. Ah well, those players weren't problematic ... just odd. [/QUOTE]

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