Spotlight hoggers, aka main character syndrome. Many people do it at least a little, and its pretty forgivable in small doses. Similarly, crosstalk, when players talk over each other. Which, I get, especially online, when you're excited and want to talk about 'thing', but please please please let the quieter or less social players also say what they want to say. Often some passive sexism to this one too, considering men often are socialized that their opinion is Very Important, and women are socialized to just roll their eyes and let men say their Important Thoughts.
Had a player that was part of the friend group for years, that always had to be involved in everything. Though I've finally cut him out of my life, for more IRL reasons. Which, might be justifiable in some DnD type games, but the group did a lot of WoD, with large groups, and players splitting off into sidegroups. Like, dude, just focus on your character and their faction, don't metagame to be involved in everything.
Worst was in DnD though, before I switched to pathfinder. I try hard to make sure that, in each plot arc I run, each player gets at least one 'spotlight' moment. For this one, tumultuous city of guilds, more-or-less ran by a mask council of priests, wearing masks of their gods. A player was a cleric of Thor, and she, the player, was a little more timid, and as such got talked over a bit. But this was obviously a subplot she was directly involved in, as the council was corrupt, especially the Weasley priest of Thor. She got to do a cool power-up moment, and smite him in the council chambers, then some assassins stuff happened, involving the rest of the players rushing into the now broken council chambers. Except problem player just had to know what was going on in there, and made a bit fuss planning on how to smuggle his raven familiar into the camber with her, to 'make sure everything's okay'. And like, its a pretty minor thing, but when its constant, and involving game time and rules adjudication, so his 'super smart wizard' can keep looped in on every player's stuff, its frustrating, especially since this city has his family in it, and he gets his own important plot stuff in the city!
Spotlight hoggers, aka main character syndrome. Many people do it at least a little, and its pretty forgivable in small doses. Similarly, crosstalk, when players talk over each other. Which, I get, especially online, when you're excited and want to talk about 'thing', but please please please let the quieter or less social players also say what they want to say. Often some passive sexism to this one too, considering men often are socialized that their opinion is Very Important, and women are socialized to just roll their eyes and let men say their Important Thoughts.
Had a player that was part of the friend group for years, that always had to be involved in everything. Though I've finally cut him out of my life, for more IRL reasons. Which, might be justifiable in some DnD type games, but the group did a lot of WoD, with large groups, and players splitting off into sidegroups. Like, dude, just focus on your character and their faction, don't metagame to be involved in everything.
Worst was in DnD though, before I switched to pathfinder. I try hard to make sure that, in each plot arc I run, each player gets at least one 'spotlight' moment. For this one, tumultuous city of guilds, more-or-less ran by a mask council of priests, wearing masks of their gods. A player was a cleric of Thor, and she, the player, was a little more timid, and as such got talked over a bit. But this was obviously a subplot she was directly involved in, as the council was corrupt, especially the Weasley priest of Thor. She got to do a cool power-up moment, and smite him in the council chambers, then some assassins stuff happened, involving the rest of the players rushing into the now broken council chambers. Except problem player just had to know what was going on in there, and made a bit fuss planning on how to smuggle his raven familiar into the camber with her, to 'make sure everything's okay'. And like, its a pretty minor thing, but when its constant, and involving game time and rules adjudication, so his 'super smart wizard' can keep looped in on every player's stuff, its frustrating, especially since this city has his family in it, and he gets his own important plot stuff in the city!
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