Never play D&D with these types of players

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  @theDMLair · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @mrgunn2726 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Players always seem to want a Matt Mercer GM experience, but they are rarely Critical Role quality players. &nbsp;There are a ton of articles on how to be a better GM, so I really appreciate, how to be a better player videos, we need more of these!

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  @celericasse4391 · 2 years ago

  Could you do one with &quot;The best kind of players&quot; as well? <br>It could inspire players to indulge in positive behaviours, and who knows, maybe even convert a bad player to a good one!

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  @thelorewright · 2 years ago

  I once had a player who tried to bully, cheat, and play dumb to get his way. Example, he would ask me, the DM, about something he wanted to do and if I gave him anything except a enthusiastic &quot;Yes!&quot;, he would just ignore my ruling and try to push his idea anyway. He would then be angry when I called him on it at the table. He even went so far as to try to recruit the other players in bullying another player because he wanted them to leave. That&apos;s the moment I told him to leave. From your list, I&apos;d say he was a combination of Aggressor and Lone Wolf.

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  @Androsynth75 · 2 years ago

  The best thing I learned as a DM followed my getting a management job and getting comfortable with difficult conversations. Most of this stuff, like 90% of the time, isn&apos;t really intentional by most players, it&apos;s usually a lack of self awareness. Sometimes a little private, direct, but polite chat after a game or some gentle reminders that &apos;hey X, it&apos;s Y&apos;s turn now please let them finish&apos; and just quietly but firmly letting folks know there are boundaries/rules in place (which you should establish with a new group out of the gate) will prevent this from ever snowballing. If you get someone who doesn&apos;t listen, doesn&apos;t care, or has actual toxic traits or views: boot &apos;em sooner rather than later. Life is to short to spend your fun time dealing with assholes.

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  @AstraAndSnowyTheFerret · 2 years ago (edited)

  My new headcanon is that you bring a 50. Cal handgun of some kind and just ominously clean it while you DM, and you call it the Adjudicator.

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  @ethanfrench9111 · 2 years ago

  Had a rouge run off as a lone wolf, got smothered by a rug. The party had an inkling of where he was and he was lucky enough to use a “last stand” (homebrew rule I have where if a player is about to die with little chance of reviving, they can take a turn immediately before they die/go unconscious to take a heroic last turn to do something. Essentially like those war movies where the hero turns around to face the onslaught of enemies knowing they won’t survive in order to save their companions.) to kill the rug with a high damage roll. Actually the first time I allowed someone in the group to use a last stand because they were normally pretty careful about everything. He stuck pretty close to the group after that.

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  @belzebubukas · 2 years ago (edited)

  -&gt; Runs D&amp;D over Discord<br>-&gt; Turns on his military grade wifi jammer<br>-&gt; Disconnects<br>-&gt; ???<br>-&gt; Profit

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  @th3n3wc4d · 2 years ago

  A player type I don&apos;t think gets called out often enough are the passive players. The players that don&apos;t want to speak up, that are waiting for someone else to move things along. Nothing frustrates me more than when the DM asks the group &quot;what do you want to do?&quot; and it&apos;s just silence. If I&apos;m a DM and this comes up, I just sit there in the awkward silence until someone finally speaks up, but if I&apos;m a player, I&apos;ll wait no more than a few seconds before taking over. It gets frustrating when you&apos;re presented with a scenario that requires action from the party, and nobody wants to speak up, so you find yourself leading the group over and over again, because then you turn into one of these bad player types.

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  @monkeibusiness · 2 years ago

  You forgot a burden: The Miserable. People that you cannot make happy. People who drag down the mood by just being there and being miserable. Nothing is ever good or fun, complaints everywhere. <br><br>I get that depression is a thing but dear god can it be exhausting to deal with some people if they choose to make their mood your problem.

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  @Unhacker · 1 year ago

  Little known fact, there is a species of Goblin that has 65 HP, breathes fire, and eats exclusively argumentative players. Rare but deadly.

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  @Immudzen · 2 years ago

  We had one person in our group only once decide they would just straight up murder a shop- keeper. The rest of the party stepped in and put the character down immediately and then we resurrected their character. Lesson was learned and they did not do it again. They also had to pay reparations to the shop keeper to keep the city guards from being involved.

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