Hey guys, I hate to make a b@!*&ing thread but I am sort of curious how other people would handle the situation I find myself in. So a few months back a group member asked the group if he could bring in a new player that was currently going through a divorce because it would give him something to take his mind off live. So of course we all said yes. Now he has been with the group about 6months now.
I need to say first off that our group is very RP heavy, we attempt to get pretty into character. We do this even at the cost of causing ourselfs problems, "since we dont know". We ended a campaign about 2 months ago, during which this player really didnt do anything. Now most of us took it as him getting to know the group and it was not a big deal. Also we as a group had the core players playing classes that we needed(rogue, druid, rogue, tank, and him).
Now onto the issue, we recently started a new campaign. This campaign is alot more serious then our last and all of us are loving it. The issue is this player, we have had 8 sessions so far and he has died in atleast 6 of them. Now in a goofy campaign, like our last this isnt such an issue, but in this one it is becoming one. Now I dont want to be bossy and tell people what to play, currently we have a gunslinger, magus, paladin,a barbarian and him. Now part of the reason he is dieing is we dont have a healer and he often puts us into trouble, ill get into that in a second. He is continually making the same character rogue/fighter, 6 times now. So in my experience, it is usually the unspoken rule that when someone dies they come back as something that the group needs and he obviously doesnt feel that way.
Now I could easily forgive that, if it wasnt for one fact. Each character is exactly the same. He plays some kind of secret rogue of a good society, think robin hood rob from the rich and give to the poor, and he goes around killing innocent people when they give him a job. Again I could easily forgive this if he contributed to the roleplaying but he does not. In fact for a few sessions his goal was to get us to argue with each other because we all roleplay so much, we actually had semi party violence due to it. Now he didnt do this in character either. I think part of that issue was that he was bored since he wasnt roleplaying and that was one way he could be enntertained. Now we did put an end to that and he apologized but he is still making characters that die constantly. I mean at the rate my party is turning over, my good character doesnt want to bring more people around because obviously he is cursed.
Death Recaps (only a few)
4 sessions charged onto a boat some pirates were blowing up
3 sessions ago, was seen in woods by a party of 5 that we were following and instead of being taken prisoner attacked.
Last session he did not die but instead when my character was trying to talk his way out of a fight decided to shoot an arrow across the river and start a fight and then continued to shoot arrows and miss after I was Lance charged and spanked. He did this "because they called his captain(me) a heretic"...Now i also forgot to mention that our group posts on tg and it gets alot of feedback. So prior to that session someone called him out for dieing and I believe he read that and decided not to die. Which is awesome but not so awesome when you make the same melee build and then decide to sit back and shoot, when your clearly melee. If our dm didnt pull punches we would have TPK. He also did more but I dont want to rant too much =).
So my question is how do people deal with that guy, its gotten to that point where even the friend that brought him to the group wishes he didnt play. I know you can talk to him ooc, but what do you say in this situation?
Thanks
