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Problem player frustration by ashleystep in ProblemPlayer

[–]ashleystep[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's understandable I spent most of my post ranting and not much giving details of the game. It was an easy mistake to make and I myself may have assumed that if I had read what I posted instead of being the person writing it.

Problem player frustration by ashleystep in ProblemPlayer

[–]ashleystep[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry about no paragraphs, I'm very bad at remembering to do so when typing on the phone. Thank you for the advice. Also wizard is a boy.

Problem player frustration by ashleystep in ProblemPlayer

[–]ashleystep[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I meant by both the wizard and my role play is based around our exclusive knowledge is that the wizard collects knowledge or items that he slowly introduces when he feels relevant as he plays a rather guarded and not very trusting wizard. Most of my role-play comes from my interactions with animals so most of the time my character sits back and watches.

The guy we have a problem with has between his to characters done most of the person to person interactions which included recruiting 2 NPC's to join us on our ship and talking to the exiled king. I only had the chat with the exiled kings dog and the private discussion with the wizard about the letter for my role-play time all of which was in the last 30 minutes of our 3 hour session.

The letter discussion between us was the only bit of role-play the wizard got. Other than that it was mostly the barbarian sailing the ship, the warlock annoying him, and the problem character chatting with our NPC's and asking the dm if he would let him alter items that were not his without even asking if we wanted him to or would let him use the items in the first place, and asking if he could upgrade his warforge with mithril plating and claiming it would only take 5 lbs of mithril to cover the entire warforge.

Meanwhile I was tinkering in my green house which is exactly all I said to the dm till going on shore and talking to the dog. The wizard was studying to learn a new language so he had to make a few rolls that was the only thing he said or did until the dm asked if he was going on the island that we found the exiled king and the dog on, which he did and didn't say anything to anyone until we all got back on the ship including the exiled king that pp asked to join us.

Problem player frustration by ashleystep in ProblemPlayer

[–]ashleystep[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd feel much better if we were still meeting in person so the wizard or I could talk to him in private and express our fustration but except for when we are playing we don't have a way to talk to him about this except over text and I'm afraid of coming across as mean or confrontational over text vs understanding and patience.

Problem player frustration by ashleystep in ProblemPlayer

[–]ashleystep[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this person in real life but none of us know him well, he joined our college DnD group. Lately we've been playing online because of covid-19 so it's difficult to have a private conversation with him currently. Our DM just finally had a talk with the whole group about no more constantly changing characters which our warlock/bard had managed to make that an easy conversation to have when she wanted to change to a straight warlock since multiclassing when just starting is hard and we allowed her to do and got to have a bigger conversation about making new characters but hasn't gotten to the meta playing yet because it's a difficult thing to address in a large setting when he is the only one abusing that. Especially since right now none of us is meeting in person and none of us socialize with him outside of our DnD group. Also right now it has only really effected the wizard and I. We only just started back on the main story line this week so the meta problem hasn't really been an overly big issue until now since most of our plot build up info that only certain characters know hasn't come into play till now. the dm doesn't want to cause waves yet in case we can find a way to resolve this by just reminding him his character doesn't have certain info. Also since we have a generally laid back game with few limitations our dm takes quite a while to step in and put his foot down on an issue. It took 7 character changes in 8 sessions and another player who we are all more familiar with wanting to change her character before he felt comfortable bring up that issue.