evil-frosty
2014-04-14, 06:05 PM
Currently I am involved in a campaign with people who I see as my family (and in fact the DM is my dad). The party balance is sort of out of whack in terms of roles being covered (most members have some form of arcane spell casting). So far the campaign has been open world with some intrigue, we have obvious goals but it is completely up to us to pick how and which we pursue. We searching for parts of potion called a Potion of Prismatic Dragon control and for obvious reasons we want to get it before any number of BBEG's. I have a somewhat chaotic personality, and have been unfairly labelled as a trouble maker for the party as a player at times. This is the first time I am actually running an actual chaotic character though. As a side note every one else has a slight tendency to run almost the same character over and over role playing wise. Anyway, my character has a tendency to end up alone/has gained some knowledge that only he would know, but the rest of the party acts like they were there too, or act incredulous when I did not tell the rest of them that my character was given essentially a nuclear deterrent by his guild on the last quest (I was given a wand of power word kill with one charge, and we just gained level 5).
This has been bothering me, especially since in the future I have managed in character to arrange an important meeting with a neutral third party who currently has two parts of the potion (the rest of the party has blindly attacked the poor chaps before as well without any provocation) and so as it stands my character has very little reason to trust any one else in the party for various reasons (some theft of loot, one character is a wanted criminal, the aggravated assault of a neutral party, I was shouted down when I objected to letting the mentally unhinged wizard rest regaining his spells, and lastly the trusting of the incompetent local priest of Bahamut). The meta gaming has been bothering me, and it isn't generalized it is specifically when it concerns me, so I am asking after the playgrounds insight in how to broach the subject to the rest of the party, and how to handle the conversation? Also if you could please share your experiences with the issue of metagaming I would appreciate it. Thank you.
This has been bothering me, especially since in the future I have managed in character to arrange an important meeting with a neutral third party who currently has two parts of the potion (the rest of the party has blindly attacked the poor chaps before as well without any provocation) and so as it stands my character has very little reason to trust any one else in the party for various reasons (some theft of loot, one character is a wanted criminal, the aggravated assault of a neutral party, I was shouted down when I objected to letting the mentally unhinged wizard rest regaining his spells, and lastly the trusting of the incompetent local priest of Bahamut). The meta gaming has been bothering me, and it isn't generalized it is specifically when it concerns me, so I am asking after the playgrounds insight in how to broach the subject to the rest of the party, and how to handle the conversation? Also if you could please share your experiences with the issue of metagaming I would appreciate it. Thank you.