Post/Author/DateTime	Post
jera 02-03-07, 08:48 PM	I know you guys arn't perfect, I know im not. Every now and then a PC will just get on my nerves so bad(in or out of game) I just have to smite them. So what are your favorite ways to get rid of that annoying PC? 1. Drop the halfling into a bag of holding. 2. Dragons 3. putting the chaotic evil necromancer, in the middle of the annual paladin's 'I love my diety' convention. 4. cursed sword of Dancing 5. reminding the PC's that they forgot to bring rations......while underground. BTW: I have used all of these in game.
BloodSpill 02-03-07, 08:51 PM	I'm glad you're not my DM.
Ace_of_Diamonds 02-03-07, 08:52 PM	Simply kicking the player out of my game works well enough to me. I'm not so immature as to take it out on an imaginary character they control.
BloodSpill 02-03-07, 08:55 PM	Mmm. I'm not so much against you as a person, jera, but I'm not exactly for encouraging what is often thought to be 'bad' Dungeon Master-ing.
Whisper_Swiftblade 02-03-07, 09:04 PM	just getting this out of the way in the planest way i know. You should not just kill off players regaurdless of the problems.
Leo 02-03-07, 09:07 PM	My DM's used the following: 6-Your god/mother nature doesn't like you anymore(for divine casters). Works wonders. 7-You took too much time there. You lose the turn. All the monsters attack you because you look the softest piece of meat around(for arcane casters abusing spells). 8-The tales of your power have spread long and wide. Suddenly, a wizard appears out of the sky and cast mormikden's disjunction on you to test your might.(Losing all your magic stuff can be quite demoralyzing at higher levels). 9-Throw them low level battles and use all your skill as Dm to completely crush the player. Or just throw random monsters at them untill they fall. EDIT:normally, killing is a last resort. Humiliating them can prve quite effective.
Comus 02-03-07, 09:08 PM	Usually I talk to the player and then work out a resolution to the problem that works best for everyone. Often it involves simply changing how the character is roleplayed. Other times, the character is retired and a new one is put into the game. Very rarely, their playstyle is so different from that of the other players and my own that we go our seperate ways.
DarkLiChNeaZur 02-03-07, 09:27 PM	finally got fed up with a player one day and this is how the crime scene looked. he was going to the bathroom (poo) during a thunderstorm and he ended up having explosive Dierrea, he was a gluttones charcater and ate TONS so he ended up laying in a puddle of the stuff, i made him roll a reflex roll and he failed therefor lighting struck the massive puddle of liquified poo and he was electriuited i his own puddle of dierrhea :P
agletam 02-03-07, 09:30 PM	first off DarkLiChNeaZur---- that was disgusting secondly-- i have only ever killed off characters purposely when they weren't taking the game seriously and had been warned..... ussuaalyy it involves a bad papercut getting infected
itwasntme 02-03-07, 09:42 PM	10) The Next thing they see is WELCOME TO THE WORLDS LARGEST DUNGION YOU ARE HEAR *Points at death) 11) Call Shot Heart 12) Call Shot Head 13) Call shot hand 1 hand 2 14) Call shot 15) That food your eating? Ya Its magicoly diesage with a new type of diesage make a fort Ref and Will Save 16) Ah you lite up your pipe and smoke it ... make a Fort save coz its new type of Weed your smokeing and its magicoly Enchanced 17) some very high level evil character decide that the whole area you guys are in needs to be rid of (Players Class/Algiment/Race) Skum bag! 18) All of a sudden a VERY Large shadow appears around you ... 19) All of a sudden it seems to get hoter and hoter ... you get the feeling its like a Giant Magnifing Glass is centerd over you like you use to do to ants when you where a kid ...
Always-Late 02-03-07, 10:05 PM	10. Annihilate him with kobolds. 11. Wait for the player to do something spectacularly stupid during tense diplomacy and annihilate him. 9-8
philnicau 02-03-07, 10:31 PM	If you're seriously considering killing of a PC because you don't like they way they play, then you shouldn't be a DM.
Ramses III 02-04-07, 03:41 AM	If you're seriously considering killing of a PC because you don't like they way they play, then you shouldn't be a DM. QFT
sorvikcorsair 02-04-07, 03:58 AM	I have never purposly killed off a PC. However I let them hang themselves. Playing a dragon lance campaign had an annoying player (and pc) doing everything he could to derail the campaign. Got into a combat and he had a knack for trying to get the killing shot in on everything... In the party was a Brute Barbarian, he didn't have any archery feats and rolled his to-hit. The enemy had 70% concealment from this bard gnome (annoying player) due to the combat with the Brute. He rolled and Hit with a crit! then rolled 1% less than his concealment roll. I was nice, let him kill the target, but he hit the brute's arm in the proccess... The brute went into rage (bonus xp for playing the class/race) and attacked the bard. Critted him with the twohanded bastard sword. It was purely luck that the Brute killed the annoying player, who yelled and promptly left because that wasn't 'fair'. I reasoned with him as he was leaving, "You shot at a BRUTE and hit him, AND killed his target. You cut through his warpaint with your hit causing him to rage, and his target was YOU for firing the bolt!" He still left, but it solved a problem. Really a DM shouldn't purposly try to kill their PCs, put them in challenging situations that make them think to pass, yes, give them a mission where they 'accidently' kill an innocent and trying to find a way out, yes... but to outright put them in impossible situations is railroading the game, and that is never fun for any PC.
ekimekim 02-04-07, 04:45 AM	To my surprise, when DMing the first sesion of my new campaign, I found myself threatening players (jokingly at first, but more serious as it seemed to work). We were on a limited time-frame and they were fooling around/asking stupid questions/metagaming, so I told them clouds were forming over their heads. When they realised that was a threat of lightning, they started to shut up. I wouldn't have actually struck anyone, though.
mkill 02-04-07, 11:46 AM	20) None. I've been gaming and DMing for years and only one character ever died when I was DMing. Well, all the characters were part of a dark elven house, and he was a slave and ****** them off by trying to steal house property ... another character executed him with the full authority to do it. But hey, that's what you get when everybody is lawful evil. But no, I never needed to kill a character. And I've been DMing at conventions and had my fair share of idiots. A good DM handles these things in a different way.