Short but pretty funny story. Been in a homebrew campaign for a couple years now, mostly been enjoyable with not really any issues with the players, apart from one who for the sake of this story we will call M. The first instance happened where he wanted his first character (level 3 btw) to be this legendary warrior and adventurer. The DM didn’t want to say no to him as it was his first proper DND character and therefore this legendary (level 3) adventurer joined our party. He was mostly funny and not too problematic in general, mostly just struggled when someone told him that no, he couldn’t lift a 8ft armored barbarian out of the sea with his 12 strength stat. He consistently had an issue with being told no, as he had a strange habit of creating new lore impromptu for the DMs homebrew world, making up locations and information despite no previous discussion. He would become defensive and snappy when corrected or asked to stop and would constantly fight for narrative control. The first big issue happened when he completely derailed the entire adventure and got highly defensive about it despite being in the wrong he, as he decided without the party’s consent to gamble our 10000 gold fortune randomly at the nearest island, where he proceeded to lose EVERYTHING. He then decided the best course of action was to attempt to steal back the fortune in front of the face of the person who took it from him, obviously failing the DC 25 sleight of hand and quickly being sent to the dungeon.
We went under a grueling multi-session combat in order to get him back and the rogue of the party who got taken away with him, which ended up to be useless anyway as he decided to leave the party directly after. Exactly 1 session after, he decided to rejoin the party as his new character: The son of the previous one who was an entirely different race, was never set up before and apparently had an even more extravagant fortune. While initially endearing, after a few sessions time he began acting really strange and being entirely different. He went on long speeches to every NPC we saw and became almost anti-social towards other PCs, as well as taking on a new “jokester” personality where he would make strange jokes such as continuously misgendering my PC for some reason? We are thinking of having an intervention as this character change has been very odd and his previous issues of arguing with the DM have only seemed to intensify.
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Class clown + main character syndrome. You've got a main clown on your hands.
So, that what exactly mean "you are not a clown, you are entire circus "
Why the hell would y’all collectively endure that garbage player?
It’s hard to be sympathetic when it’s a self-inflicted problem.
Intervention sounds nice, especially if you can all agree to kick him if he doesn't change
He should check for black mould or carbon monoxide honestly, better to be safe than sorry
I think what you guys actually need is to kick this guy out.
But your DM is also an issue because he is a doormat.
He needs to learn that saying NO to bullshit is a healthy thing to do when dealing with pricks like this one.
Because if he does not figure this out - that Clown Protag is just going to keep being insufferable.
Honestly while it sounds light hearted at first bro sounds like judge holden Honestly you should think about kicking him
I think you should kill him.
Hear me out: next time he gets arrested-dont rescue him. Go earn his bail money through honest means. Even if it takes 10 or 15 sessions.
He almost seems schizophrenic. Yes, an intervention needs to happen. This won't get better and you may have to ask him to leave the table.
I would ask him how HE thinks its going before you explain how its actually going.
Sounds like a strange version of Main Character Syndrome.