Questions tagged [player-vs-player]
For questions about handling game situations where players are acting in opposition to each other, rather than jointly tackling problems presented by a GM.
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Alternate Magical Ring placement [closed]
I play D&D with my brother in a group. He has a character (a sorcerer) who wears his rings on his toes. He also created a campaign using his character as the enemy (NPC).
I am the only one he told ...
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How do I keep a party together when they have conflicting goals?
I'm running a Starfinder game, and we are 40 sessions into this campaign.
The campaign involves the fate of a small but strategically important settlement, which several factions are vying for control ...
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How to resolve player confrontation without dice or stats?
I will be running a homebrew RPG.
It is going to be a mystery game played over Signal. One day in game will be played over three days in real life. Players are characters in a hotel, they find a ...
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Teleporting an enemy away to their doom using Gate
I was the DM for a group of guys for whom I directed Pathfinder's Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path. Everything went fine, the players saved the world and all of that wonderful stuff (which is ...
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What should I do about another player who randomly starts PVP?
Characters (both players, both level 9):
Me: Life cleric and party healer/support
"Barb": Beast barbarian with split personalities (in character)
We have a player (let's say "Barb&...
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I've felt "attacked" OOC because of IC character events. Did I deserve it? [closed]
When I was in college I had my first chance to play some TRPG. I played half-a-dozen one shot there but then I dropped out and when I enrolled again I couldn't find another group. Now, years after ...
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How should I play my character (who is motivated to betray the party) and keep the game fun?
My friends and I are playing a custom quest where our goal is to stop Asmodeus from reaching god hood. However, my problem is that I am playing a Warlock (Lawful Evil) who is evil and worships ...
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How do I deal with this very annoying teammate who engages in player versus player combat?
I am playing with some friends over Discord, and one of them makes characters with a bit of a light temper. Not that bad, right?
Wrong. If you do something or say something he doesn't like, he makes ...
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How can I handle a PC wanting to be a "twist" villain?
My group has been following a premade campaign that has a decentralized plot structure that relies mainly on adventurers "finding their own adventure". This means that while the campaign ...
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Dealing with an extreme player reaction to a PC choice
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We are playing Savage Worlds. My character is an ex-military dishonorable discharge that was granted an opportunity to waive the charge by volunteering for a Black Operation service term ...
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What happens when a player uses another PC as an improvised weapon?
One of my players in a beginner party in the Lost Mines of Phandelver asked about improvised weapons and how they work. After I explained it, they asked if they could use one of their fellow PCs as an ...
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How to manage players wanting to carry out opposing actions?
I need to pick your brains for experience in dealing with this sort of situation.
So, in our campaign there was recently an occasion where a character interfered with another character's actions. [I ...
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How to fool characters while avoiding metagame
Normally, both player and DM rely on stealth checks and secret messages when one player wants to do something without the rest of the party knowing, regardless of the motivation behind it.
This ...
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How and when should a lawful good character punish evil behavior? [closed]
I'm new to dungeons & dragons and social gaming in general, and I need some guidance on things that are making it not fun for me to play.
I joined a campaign with the guidance that it was a good ...
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How to prevent discontent among the players when one player murders the others' characters?
I've recently had an idea for a one-shot game (in my own homebrew system that I've been using for a while) where I collaborate with a player to make things more interesting. My plan is to make it look ...
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What homebrew dice mechanic can I use for PvP in Amazing Tales?
I've recently started playing Amazing Tales with my children. As a summary of basically all the mechanics of the game (it's pretty simple since it's targeting children), each character has four skills,...
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Is there any way to keep a player from killing an NPC?
I was running a one shot for friends and a player had gotten annoyed with an NPC that the other players really liked. This came to a head when after a combat encounter the Player decided to attack the ...
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Is there a low-level way for one player character to prevent another from finishing a long rest?
Is there a potion or <= level 3 spell (or something else), or an in-game drug/root/plant/etc. that can be used to essentially prevent a character from sleeping for a certain amount of time, or ...
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What are the uses and limitations of Persuasion, Insight, and Deception against other PCs?
Yesterday, I was in a D&D 5E group. Today, I am not. We were playing Out of the Abyss, but that's redundant to my issue, I think.
Basically, the DM and I are interpreting Insight differently. He ...
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As a DM of a 4-player group, would it be appropriate for me to run a private 1-on-1 session so that one PC can act secretly?
I'm currently running a campaign with a fairly typical group of 4 players. Everyone gets along pretty well, however one of my player's Rogue has been struggling to find his niche in the party. To ...
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If a player tries to persuade somebody, what should that creature roll not to be persuaded?
It's clear that we should roll Insight versus Deception (I guess) , but what should be rolled against Persuasion or Intimidation checks? Is the answer to this question different for NPCs and PCs?
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How can I, as the MC, manage conflict between PCs?
I'm on my first campaign of Apocalypse World, and I'm finding it very interesting.
The PCs all started on kinda good terms, and they hang at the Maestro'D bar. But a new War Lord has come and ...
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Is there a game system with good mechanics for a PvP murder mystery? [closed]
My players have expressed interest in a PvP murder mystery, where one of them is secretly the murderer. At first I was enthusiastic, but there are several problems I don't know how to get round, and I ...
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How can I run a session where two opposing parties play at the same time?
A player of mine had an interesting concept where two parties who are opposed to each other would play at the same time in the same session. In essence the plot would be a group of thieves have been ...
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Need help dealing with a Chaotic Evil murder hobo fighter [closed]
Okay so the title kinda explains it but I'll give some backstory to this extremely edgy non-creative character.
So this character is a human who spent his younger life trapped in a shed by abusive ...
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How to handle the combination of PvP Combat and Death move from Grim-World?
Question : How does the Death Move Angel of Wrath from the Templar Playbook from Grim World supplement for Dungeon World interact with PvP attitude among the players ? Does the Templar still has HP ? ...
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In a PvP arena, how can other characters deal with a Rogue with Expertise in Stealth?
I'm running an arena-style fight between a lot of PCs. It's now getting to the point that there are few enough PCs that they are beginning to take levels to counter one another.
One of the players ...
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Can the DM force player vs. player social checks?
Last session, my DM made me roll a Deception check against another player. I failed the roll, and as a result I was forced to reply a specific way and reveal information I otherwise wouldn't have ...
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How could I have dealt with this player (I wasn't the DM) who intentionally made the party do stupid stuff? [closed]
It was a long session. We had an experienced DM, and a highly amateur party who just attacked everything on sight. But that was overshadowed by this one player that would intentionally do stupid stuff....
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Balancing Different Level PCs in PVP Pathfinder Combat
I have just spent altogether too much time trying to answer a simple question in my arena combat game:
Would a level 1 group like to take on a level 4 character, PVP? How many players do you think ...
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How to prevent metagame in betrayal/PvP scenarios?
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Often the metagaming problem is about how the DM presents the things to the players. We have lots of questions and good answers in the metagaming tag. Most of them are about ...
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Is there a way to reduce PvP “whiffing”?
I am running BESM 3e for a group that is doing a lot of PVP.
Normally I can handle the amount of whiffing the ACV vs. DCV causes when it is NPCs for roleplay purposes, but not when it is player vs. ...
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How can I make and enforce a rule that would prevent PvP fighting? [closed]
I'm having trouble keeping my group's barbarian from attacking the bard
I'm the DM of a game consisting of a bunch of guys from school and a couple girls. I have some serious problems with this and ...
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One person using multiple characters in separate campaigns who will be at war [closed]
In our game, we have a good campaign and an evil campaign. Our DM has us going separate games until the ending battle.
We have a player who has decided to have a character in each campaign. Cool, no ...
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How to handle 16 players in a PVP focused campaign?
I have a group of people (16 in this case) who looks like love to debate a lot about wich can be the best supernatural creature of nWoD.
I asked as a joke if they want to test. One thing conected to ...
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How can I make a player vs. player fight without it being obvious?
I'm a fairly new DM and am trying to plan my own story, I'm having trouble envisioning an important part however.
I have the group getting separated and eventually meeting up. Before they realize it'...
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What is the RAW for sneak attacking other PCs when using the optional facing rules?
There is a PvP event going on in my campaign. This is my first PvP event, and I want to play it by the book as much as possible to mitigate sad players. My rogue can do a lot of extra damage on a ...
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How can I arbitrate freeform RP in a manner more biased towards inarticulateness?
A friend of mine made a shortish Pokemon RPG module for one-on-one play. The module turned out incredibly well and everyone in our extended RPG group has now played it (and each time the supplemental ...
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Why so passionate - does Dementation stack (and how to handle the mad)?
The Malkavian in our group is played by a trigger-happy player who tends to use the cheap lower ranks of Dementation multiple times per session, mostly on his own party. Dementation is the vampiric ...
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How to balance player vs character skills and knowledge
I have played roleplaying games now for about 10 years and there is one problem that is like some kind of ever-present white noise. I have not found a really good solution for it.
When player play ...
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How to deal with a PC trying to kill another?
Let me start off by saying this is totally my fault. There's nobody to blame but me. Our regular group couldn't get together, and the one guy who could make it had said he was interested in learning ...
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I have to 'solo' a whole PC party. Help? [closed]
Here's the deal. I'm a temporary PC who was tossed in by a DM who decided to let me play as a Priestess of Lolth (5e, 14th level, vs a party of 10th level PCs)
On my side, I have:
2 Driders I can ...
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How do I prevent a character from being resurrected?
I'm part of a team of level 20 characters (5 players total). I am a Shadow Dancer 10 / Investigator 10.
Our party is in a war, and I am a spy within the group. I am planning to betray them. The ...
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How do we prevent the PvP death of a PC from being cheapened and made meaningless by easy resurrection?
I am running a homebrewed RPG cobbled together from bits of systems like VtM, D&D, Pathfinder, etc. (that's not the problem, it works for us). Our campaign includes player-versus-player conflict, ...
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Core Rulebook Battle Royale [closed]
My group will be having a one-off battle royale before our next session, with the following conditions:
Core Rulebook only (races, items, classes, feats, etc.)
Level 10, with standard starting gold
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What happens when a PC attacks another PC?
Consider the following situation:
GM: You see a gleaming pile of gold in front of you crowned with a ruby the size of your fist.
Thief: I stab the fighter and run to grab the ruby.
How must the GM ...
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How do I handle a PC trying to assassinate another?
I have a situation in which one PC is sitting on top of a roof with a rifle (which I've house ruled as having stats of a repeating crossbow) and there is another PC approaching the building. He wants ...
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My DM asked me to betray the party; How do I beat them? [closed]
After we chose classes but before we really solidified our character sheets, my DM privately messaged me and asked if I wouldn't mind playing the part of the double agent sent to infiltrate and, at ...
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Countermeasures against a Diplomancer
A character with 40+ to social skillchecks is always a problem, moreso in a PvP campaign. True, Diplomacy is only so useful against PCs, but there are also Bluff and, especially, Intimidate. Those two ...
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What is a good combat system I can use for a story-driven PVP game? [closed]
Alright, I know that most who read the title will go: "PVP (Player vs Player) games? In RPGs?! NO WAY!!!"
Yes, yes, I know. Many advise against doing PVP in RPGs, arguing that clubbing GM-controlled ...
