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Message: <blockquote data-quote="outsider" data-source="post: 4764225" data-attributes="member: 54690">There's two types of characters I just can't stand to have in my group.First, and worst, is Kender.  The silliness I can live with.  What I can't live with is the blatant party disruption.  When you are playing a kender, you basically have two options.  1: Cause endless party infighting by stealing from your groupmates constantly.  2: Roleplay your character improperly.  That's basically it.  The race itself is written in a way that's guaranteed to be disruptive to the game.  Tasselhoff might make an interesting character to read about in the occasional novel, but he does not belong in any D&D group I've ever played in.Second is characters that are deliberately designed to be useless/incompetent.  Some people treat incompetent characters as the height of rp.  They aren't.  What they are is an annoyance to the players who are actually trying to get stuff done.  In D&D, characters need pull their weight and contribute to combat in a meaningful way.  Combat potential isn't as required in other games, but every character should be good at -something- that's relevant to the game being played.  A good character will have some flaws, but they'll be good at things too.How I deal with it?  Typically I let these characters die.  I'm a powergamer, and alot of the time that leads to a DM scaling up the challenge.  When I don't pull my weight(just as the above character types are deliberately not doing), sometimes characters die.   I'd never willingly allow a to pc die if the player was legitimately trying, yet lacked the necessary skill with the game mechanics though.  It's the effort that's important.If I find myself in a group where these types of characters are common, I just leave the group.  It's not worth the annoyance to stick around.</blockquote>

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