Why are [your kids] in the next room? I'm 39 and mine are gamers already...
7-yr old boys have limited attention spans and 1-yr babies just want to eat dice, that's why. :)
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Kingmaker will be rocked indeed. And yeah, he's not a random git. We've known him for 5 years now, and he's always been this way. Apparently with Fantasy games his issues become magnified. Anyway, tonight will decide if we continue to tolorate him at the gaming table.
As for kids in the next room. I've got two daughters. 9 and 6. I'm already working on bringing them into the hobby. Oddly enough, the youngest is more interested than the oldest. My 9 year old is very "grown up" and thinks that playing make-believe with dice, paper, and pencils is slightly weird. LOL!!!
Kingmaker will be rocked indeed.
And may the Gods bless the rocking of Kingmaker.
And yeah, he's not a random git. We've known him for 5 years now, and he's always been this way. Apparently with Fantasy games his issues become magnified. Anyway, tonight will decide if we continue to tolorate him at the gaming table.
It happens, I guess every group has a horror story involving a long-time player (or two.)
As for kids in the next room. I've got two daughters. 9 and 6. I'm already working on bringing them into the hobby. Oddly enough, the youngest is more interested than the oldest. My 9 year old is very "grown up" and thinks that playing make-believe with dice, paper, and pencils is slightly weird. LOL!!!
Well, yeah, gamers are weird. But you know what, that -1-yr old I have is a girl, and I wouldn't sweat it if she ever dated a gamer....
We're working on our son, he needs short adventures with lots of action. Or wait, that might be me...
Nice Dark Mistress...
I have yet to get my twin's friends over to game, I need to talk to parents to make sure they're not freeeeeeeked by demonic D&D!!! Since all their friends are church-goers...
Demonic role-playing games... Thankfully I've never actually met anyone who espoused that kind of crap. :)
Good luck with the game EGP. I'd follow one of the other poster's advice, to have the "solo"-ing runaway be ambushed by his own private encounter. An encounter designed for a whole party.
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Good luck with the game EGP. I'd follow one of the other poster's advice, to have the "solo"-ing runaway be ambushed by his own private encounter. An encounter designed for a whole party.
I'm most certainly going to do this tonight, if tries his usual shenanigans.
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We're the Pushing-40 group... I never thought I'd be rolling the dice, in MY home, with my kids in the next room. It's sobering, let me tell ya.
The trick to something that sobering is to get less sober.
In other news, I'm going to be a father come April and I'm always glad to hear that people manage to make room for family and gaming. Hopefully I'll manage to make a little gamer out of him/her/it.
Good luck. Hope you can work it out.
Good luck with the game EGP. I'd follow one of the other poster's advice, to have the "solo"-ing runaway be ambushed by his own private encounter. An encounter designed for a whole party.I'm most certainly going to do this tonight, if tries his usual shenanigans.
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You're off playing the game, but I like your contingency plan. It's perfectly plausible. Well done, EGP.
In other news, I'm going to be a father come April and I'm always glad to hear that people manage to make room for family and gaming. Hopefully I'll manage to make a little gamer out of him/her/it.
You need an understanding spouse, and luckily that's exactly what I've got. I get to play every two weeks, any more than that would be too much.
Have the party fire the character. "Sorry mate but we signed you on to perform certain duties you have failed to comply with your contract, we no longer require your services. Your non action is placing our lives at risk and we will be looking to hire a more supportive party member". This is what my party would do....
It drives me nuts when I have to wrack my brains for a reason why my PC would hang out with another PC.
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I'm happy to report that all went very well last night. The problem player played very well with the others and things went smoothly. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun as well. Apparently the docking of EXP from the last session and the general disapointment from the other players brought the guy back in line. We had one little hick up, but urging from the other players, and having one PC almost die during an encounter with a monstrous mutant tick, spurred him to heroic action. So it was all good.
Huzzah!
I hope it holds and I hope even more that the Problem Player enjoyed the group experience :)
GNOME
THE OP POSTED A HAPPY ENDING! YAY!
Sometimes, if you don't announce it, bad things happen.
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He (the problem player) did seem to enjoy himself more this time around. There was also more intraparty interaction as well. A lot of talking with each other, in character, about concerns for each others well-being, and the necessity to have each others back when it all goes to crap. I was very pleased and surprised with how things turned out. I'm really hyped and looking forward to the next session.
Thanks to everyone here for the encouragement and ideas on how to handle the situation. This community is one the very best RPG communities I've had the privledge to be a part of! Thanks again everyone!
Great to hear. Hope it keeps up :)
and having one PC almost die during an encounter with a monstrous mutant tick
If I remember correctly, in the mite caves, we had a similar disaster. Took a concerted effort of the whole party (even the unconscious ones) to survive some weird long-tentacled monster. It tore through our meager remaining resources and nearly killed two of the party.
This is how we survived:
Our bard/fighter had a towershield. He was also unconscious (but not dead). We were fighting a losing battle involving a bloody tactical withdrawal; we reached a relative narrow tunnel ("merely" 10ft about). We didn't have much chance of moving further without one - probably two - dying.
There wasn't enough time to do something proper, so our rescue came through a combination of interactions. Our cavalier carried the unconscious bard/fighter - our wizard enlarged the unconscious bard/fighter, while the cavalier handled the bard/fighter's shield arm (the one with the tower shield attached).
Upon enlargement, the shield (also enlarged as part of the bard/fighter) now more or less blocked off the tunnel - the remaining gaps weren't enough for the creature to follow us; though its tentacles still slipped through the cracks above and at the side. The rest of us tossed oil and alchemist fires through the gaps when possible as we couldn't retreat without sacrificing some party members. Fortunately the fire and oil worked mostly in our favor and we got the thing to scurry off before we lost somebody ourselves.
A pretty epic tale of heroics for our party :)
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Great to hear. Hope it keeps up :)
and having one PC almost die during an encounter with a monstrous mutant tickIf I remember correctly, in the mite caves, we had a similar disaster. Took a concerted effort of the whole party (even the unconscious ones) to survive some weird long-tentacled monster. It tore through our meager remaining resources and nearly killed two of the party.
This is how we survived:
Our bard/fighter had a towershield. He was also unconscious (but not dead). We were fighting a losing battle involving a bloody tactical withdrawal; we reached a relative narrow tunnel ("merely" 10ft about). We didn't have much chance of moving further without one - probably two - dying.There wasn't enough time to do something proper, so our rescue came through a combination of interactions. Our cavalier carried the unconscious bard/fighter - our wizard enlarged the unconscious bard/fighter, while the cavalier handled the bard/fighter's shield arm (the one with the tower shield attached).
Upon enlargement, the shield (also enlarged as part of the bard/fighter) now more or less blocked off the tunnel - the remaining gaps weren't enough for the creature to follow us; though its tentacles still slipped through the cracks above and at the side. The rest of us tossed oil and alchemist fires through the gaps when possible as we couldn't retreat without sacrificing some party members. Fortunately the fire and oil worked mostly in our favor and we got the thing to scurry off before we lost somebody ourselves.
A pretty epic tale of heroics for our party :)
Sounds like you guys ran afoul of that gigantic centipede that lived in the chasm under the Mite tree. That thing was nasty indeed.
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Glad things ended up well for you.
It is fine to play a RP-centric character as long as you clear it with the DM and the rest of the party. As long as the party agrees and their role within the party made clear it can work.
In one case we had a character who was a total pacifist cleric. He had no weapons, no armor and asked that we try not to kill our enemies where possible. He covered all our diplomatic roll and was able to work in combat in a way where he just did curing and buffing.
In another case we had a character who just wanted to RP so working with the DM he became a Noble that had hired the group on as escort and thus would provide lots of role play, give the DM many plot hooks. He generally either wasn't put on the board during a combat or would be put out and we had to protect him.
In both these cases the players and DM agreed to this beforehand.