How do I deal with a player who tries to hog the spotlight? I'm

>>55206410
You pull him aside and tell him in no misapplied fashion that his nonsense ends, period.
Show him this thread, as these comprise all of your complaints.
Talk to the other players, get a full accounting of his misdeeds, itemize them, and put him to task. He gets 3 strikes, and then he's out, and he is already on strike 1.
OP, you need to show some guts and get a handle on your players, they will run roughshod on you IF YOU LET THEM. Stop being afraid of "ruining their fun" if they are ruining the fun of others.

>>55206410

>Lots of legitimate complaints about how the hobby draws autists to it.

Feels anon.

>>55206604

Recommends what I would do. The whole points is for you and the whole groups to have fun.

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>>55206410

Talk to him about it, like adults do.

>>55206410
I had a player just like this in almost the exact same circumstances as you. Here's what I did:

>Realize guy is ruining game for other players
>Tell him I'm ending the campaign because of scheduling issues but continuing it online instead from where we left off along with the same group
>He's a bit unsure at first but it fits better with his own schedule so he goes with it
>Continue campaign with other players in person and it immediately improves
>Meanwhile run him through other campaign with him controlling the "players" myself
>He swallows it hook line and sinker and gushes about how much more he enjoys the game now that everyone is suddenly going along with what he wants
>Barely make player characters act other than the occasional sentence to keep him from suspecting
>Puff up his ego and make his character become a hero, get his dick sucked, slay every monster, all that shit
>9 sessions in guy talks to one of the players he was formerly playing with in the rl game about the online campaign
>Other dude has no idea what he's talking about
>Guy realizes none of the other players were actually playing and that it's just been him and me the entire time
>He's steaming mad and demands to know why I tricked him
>I tell him that he was making the original campaign all about him anyway and that I just gave him what he wanted
>Talking him about the issue didn't work so I decided to take drastic measure
>He doesn't contact me for a week before messaging me and the others and apologizing and asking to be let back into the rl game
>We all decide to give him another chance and he rerolls a new character
>Is helpful to party, doesn't dominate decision making and lets everyone do cool stuff instead of doing it all himself

He's become one of my most enjoyable players to DM for since. He still doesn't like the trick I played on him but he admits that it worked.

>>55206410

Remove him from the game.

Talk to him about how he is being a dick in the game.

If you are DM, then actively engage other players. If the guy tries to say something, then go "hold on, I'm asking X what they want to do"

>>55206410
>I'm not sure why but it feels like he thinks he's the main character of the story
well there's almost always someone who gets to be the party face
>gets mad when other plays do things without him
yeah, nah, fuck him.

>>55206410
Knife in the back.
Seriously thou. Stop giving bad players attention. Ignore bad behavior. The more you divert attention to them the more validated their actions appear to them. And the more time is wasted for childish little shits.

>>55206410
Tell him to stop being a fucking manchild

>>55206410
Bugs...
You could use some more carrots, you're looking a bit gaunt.

>>55206410
>complains I 'put them there on purpose'
I mean you did.