Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

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We have a Barbarian in our D&D group who in our most recent major fight against some kind of lesser devil completely ignored the plan that we spent 15 minutes devising. The plan was to use the Cleric to buff the group to the max and use her as a front line fighter so we could punch incredibly hard and incredibly fast – we all had backup potions and the cleric had scrolls for some additional healing.  As soon as the buffs were cast the Barbarian player announced he was going into a rage and simply charged off, ignoring the plan, getting himself separated from the group . Not only did he nearly die but also got really pissy about not being healed despite the fact he was physically separated from the rest of the group and nobody could get to him.  He justified that as Role-playing because of some other event that had recently happened.  He had a Role-play justification but he still pissed off the rest of the group all the same. I don’t necessarily think rules like that prevent people getting pissed off when players do stupid things, what they generally do is provide an excuse to people who want to do it.  I don’t think that a Dark Heresy character with the Blasphemous Rage trait has any more right to take actions that make the game less fun for everyone else than does any other player.  The same goes for the Barbarian in my game.