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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hitokiri" data-source="post: 1997362" data-attributes="member: 26469">2 quick comments:1) This seems to be more of an issue of player/player GM/player dynamics than any type of roleplaying vs. metagaming situation.  I tried to make that clear in my earlier post, but am pretty sure I failed.  In case I wasn't clear earlier, this is a case where the GM needs to step back and make a decision on group dynamics, regardless of the specific circumstances that are currently occuring in the game.  Any other solution is likely to be a patch to the situation rather than a long term fix, and will likely result in similar arguments arising again and again (at least, from what has been described of the situation, it's hard to get a good read on it without actually being there).2) comparing D&D to uno or MtG is poorly done.  The former two involve direct play competition, the object of the game is to advance yourself at other players expense.  I should hope that this is not the case in the games I run (well, there may have been a time or two when it was the stated purposes to pit one PC against another, but that tends to be the exception to the rule, not the norm).</blockquote>