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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9279226" data-attributes="member: 93670">IME metagaming efforts & ROLEplay vrs ROLLplay taken to an extreme. I've seen it a few times over the years & it's far more common now than in earlier editions.  Here are the genericized circumstances behind the why of a couple times I've seen it come up.  Once it happens it's easy to form a strong proactive problem-solving outlook with the question<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bob plays in Beth's Wednesday campaign and bis PC has become mayor of $city or similar.  Either Bob's  PC is retired or the campaign ended but now the group needs to interact with the mayor of that same $city and now that Andy's PC is asking the mayor a question Bob causes a kerfuffle trying to force the GM's hand by jumping in to answer Andy's question or takes it as an opportunity for player-Bob to be told what Bob's old-PC would know about current local events.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alice plays in Andy's tuesday campaign but goes off and writes stories about her PC when board or has private roleplay interactions away from the table with that character with people who may or may not even be members of the table & aside from the occasional odd comment  it never really comes up with much more weight than your  mild case of stereotypical "well I'm a roleplayer and MY character ..." disruption since nobody at the table is bothered by what Alice does in her free time & most or all of them firmly believe the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_1SK0I_sM" target="_blank">reason</a> they weren't invited is a good one knowing Alice.  During the campaign Alice became a notable figure at a noteworthy guild/dragonmark house/etc in $city.  During a later campaign someone other than Alice suggests going to that guild while the party is in $city for reasons that seem relevant to the adventure.  Given the ample worldbuilding that everyone at the table is familiar with the GM uses Alice's old PC in her old role with the guild adapting to the circumstances caused by this campaign's BBEG, That's a problem for Alice because she's still writing those stories and engaging in those private roleplays with that character and she doesn't want to ignore the set quick interaction or update those stories and private roleplays most of the table has nothing to do with.</li> </ul>Both of those cases avoid all of the problems caused at the table if the GM owns/controls the character turned NPC once Alice & Bob are no longer playing them as a PC.  If Alice and Bob are expected to bring up that they want to maintain control/authority/ownership over that PC should it become an NPC in session zero or sooner it gives ample time for the GM (or group) to tell them to make a different character or find a different table before it becomes an issue.  The other way around creates more work for the GM by freezing chunks of the game world in carbonite or requires others to become Alice's number one reader after she brings in a character with hidden undisclosed baggage that never should have been brought in.</blockquote>

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