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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2066693" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>I wonder why the word "allow" is included in the question, though. If this is a staged arena setting, then it seems that the DM has forced this plot element upon the players to begin with, something that I would have avoided in the first place if possible. That said, to rephrase the question into </p><p></p><p>"Would you allow two of your players' favorite PCs to fight each other lethally and or assassinate each other during the night, knowing that one of them would likely end up dead and the losing player is going to be seriously ticked off?"</p><p></p><p>My answer is: Yes I would, and I have done so before. Sometimes, when one of your party members is a Lawful Neutral wizard who drifts to evil by making pacts with devils and slaughtering an entire village of defenseless barbarians in homage to an Archduke of Hell, and another character is a Good Outsider, something like this is bound to happen eventually. Really, there's nothing I could do about this in game except some sort of deus ex machina. Out of game, I would express my displeasure to the player, whether or not she was acting in character. </p><p></p><p>I pose this open and possibly less-one-sided question: If a player openly announces at the gaming table for everyone to hear: "During my watch, I use my Silence token, pull out my Scythe, and Coup-de-Grace Bob" what would you do as the DM?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 2066693, member: 29014"] I wonder why the word "allow" is included in the question, though. If this is a staged arena setting, then it seems that the DM has forced this plot element upon the players to begin with, something that I would have avoided in the first place if possible. That said, to rephrase the question into "Would you allow two of your players' favorite PCs to fight each other lethally and or assassinate each other during the night, knowing that one of them would likely end up dead and the losing player is going to be seriously ticked off?" My answer is: Yes I would, and I have done so before. Sometimes, when one of your party members is a Lawful Neutral wizard who drifts to evil by making pacts with devils and slaughtering an entire village of defenseless barbarians in homage to an Archduke of Hell, and another character is a Good Outsider, something like this is bound to happen eventually. Really, there's nothing I could do about this in game except some sort of deus ex machina. Out of game, I would express my displeasure to the player, whether or not she was acting in character. I pose this open and possibly less-one-sided question: If a player openly announces at the gaming table for everyone to hear: "During my watch, I use my Silence token, pull out my Scythe, and Coup-de-Grace Bob" what would you do as the DM? [/QUOTE]
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