
SilentMonk |

Hello, im recently a new GM/DM. For the past year ive been hosting games for 5 players recently we lost a member to school and work and ive recently added a new player. The first couple sessions went by smoothly and everyone had a blast. Our last game caused a bit of disturbance. Before I begin let me explain how I run games. Im really laid back and a lot of things involving rules ill let slide if it has something to do with role playing. The group im hosting hasn't been playing as long as me with the exception of two members who have been playing since a young age. I try to explain to my players to come up with a concept of a character instead of worrying about what's on their paper in the end in my opinion making a character everyone will love to see is a lot better then how many enemy's they can kill (in my opinion). But I leave it all to the players how they go about creating. Last session I split the party (it was a caravan three of the pcs got excepted and two pcs were denied by a paladin who was running the caravan) which ik the golden rule don't split the party but I left it two the last two players to either go a separate path or maybe sneak onto the caravan I left the choice to them. In the end the two left behind pcs took a different quest. They traveled to a different town for work which on the way they ran into some wolves which had just made a fresh kill. The wolves protecting their kill attacked the pcs and this is were the trouble began. The two pcs killed two of the three wolves and the last had dragged one of the pcs to the ground. The last wolf was focusing on the pc on the ground until the pc still standing attacked it. After the attack I said the wolf turns his attention to the pc left standing and attacks. Out of no were the newest player begins chiming in interrupting that the wolf wouldn't have done that and if it was the last one it would simply run away. I responded politely that this was how I saw the wolf acting. Needless to say the pcs defeated the wolf and continued. Later after the caravan started with the two old players and the newest member the troubles did not stop. The caravan was attacked by goblins. The newest player and one of the old members stayed inside a wagon and shot crossbows at the attackers. The crossbows they found in the wagon. Only the new player had a bow of his own. The last pc stayed on the roof with his sword waiting to make sure non of the attackers made it to the roof. The two players inside the wagon kept berating the pc on the roof to get off the wagon and kill the attackers. Note this wasn't role playing or in character talk. The players inside the wagon was calling the pc on the roof several names and used several comments that I can not repeat in this post. At the end of combat the new player continued berating the pc on the roof to why he didn't have a bow and how it was "stupid not to have a range weapons". Now if it was me yes id try to give my character a ranged weapon IF that's how I saw the character I created. This pc did not give his character a range weapon simply because he didn't want his character to have one it was not what he envisioned his character doing or using. I feel that what the new player did was rude and very disruptive to the game. I feel that instead of berating the character he should have approached the pc who didn't have a bow and either offered him his, found him one or offered him the one within the wagon instead of interrupting the game to say how stupid he was. Now in regards of the older player that was also chiming in with the out of character taunts and degrading language, I have warned him once of his behavior already. The vote of the other players is to remove them from our group immediately and I agreed. Im just wondering if their is anything I should do or anyone's opinions first before I make the final decision.