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Ross 01-10-06, 04:17 PM	In our new Ebberon campaign I’m playing a paladin and my friend’s playing a rogue. I was expecting a little strife on account of our odd pairing, but I figured it would just make for a more interesting game. After a high speed horse collision we happened on some bodies of a few commoners, the first thing my rogue friend says was “I’ll loot the bodies.” I said ‘no.’ Regardless, he rolled his spot check and his character leaned over to search the bodies. I rolled an attack. I hit. I kicked him straight in the ass for 7 points of non-lethal damage and sent him flying 5 feet. Everyone laughed…except the rogue. We kept playing like nothing ever happened. Later, on the car ride home, he brought it up again. He told me I didn’t know how to RP, which is hardly an insult, but still is annoying. He was really angry, and I was getting annoyed, then he called me stupid. Never, since I’ve known my friends, have I ever called them stupid, and there he was, calling me the names I hate most, “idiot” and “moron.” After pulling the car over, I jumped out, went around the passenger seat, pulled him out, and beat the living daylights out of him for a good thirty seconds, then left him to walk home while me and the rest of our friends shared and incredible silent car ride home. Actually, that last paragraph didn’t happen. I wish it did, but I actually just resisted the urge to murderize him (he is my friend, after all) and just ended the conversasion with a well placed “SHUT THE %@*& UP, MASON!” After dropping him off at his house, I reached out to shake his hand and said “sorry ‘bout that, are we still cool?”, and he just ignored me, and he paid no attention to our friends screaming at him to shake my hand. I’ve lost countless hours, lots of money, and one friend to D&D. Anybody else have an examples of friends lost to in-game conflicts?
Omnirahk, half-Rahkshi 01-10-06, 06:21 PM	You haven't lost a friend yet. It's just one fight. Remember that. Leave him with a little time to calm down, and try to apologize again. Don't try to have witnesses back up that what your actions had been IC, and were not an insult. That would be ganging up on him. Perhaps see if you can make that point on your own, but still apologize. Try meeting up with a friend (of both of yours) at some place other than your house or your angry friend's house. Find neutral ground, and talk it out with the common friend there as a mediator (It's worked. I've been just such a mediator. And the two hadn't been speaking for four months. Somehow I just found out. Failed a Sense Motive check on a comment on what I thought was just a bad day.). Make sure to point out how much your friendship means. I hope it works out. The Omnirahk.
Wizards_White_Knight 01-10-06, 06:24 PM	Never lost a friend, but my DM and I have come close to blows on a number of occasions. Im trying to get better, not step up to the challange, pick my battles and all. And I have noticed he is now quick to say "Na, I was only joking. Id let you do that. Im jsut saying no to **** you off." Which is more than irritating, but I know his heart is in the right place. (Id rather think he is an ignorant jerk than someone going out of thier way to **** me off, but meh) We havent fought since the last incident, and I would link it, but I am lazy. It was a big 2 page thread on these boards though. *nods* Still, I think we have an unspoken verbal agreement that we will never play WoW together again. WWK
Gworraent 01-10-06, 06:29 PM	I'd suggest explaining that you actions were not only IC, but also the effect of the rogues choice to rob commoners and you as a LG character were driven not out of spite and hatred, but by your alignment to either stop the looting or loose class abilities as a paladin.