It certainly hasn’t wrecked our group, and I think if anything it’s better roleplaying than just having conflicts miraculously not happen when they should. But probably it’s good to at least make sure everyone knows PvP will be allowed beforehand and to at least make sure people have reasonable, in-character motivations for it.

The smuggler kept taking some some unwarranted heat from the noble, no one in the group knew that the smuggler was taking credits even though they were all being played by the smugglers very own droid.

Well the smuggler decides he wants a 2nd character to take a break from the watchful eyes of the noble and his protector friend and makes a Jedi, tells me to run the smuggler since he does not think he will go back to him.

Well it so happened that event seemed to make the noble player more bold and decided to call out his smuggling friends droid as a criminal. The droid makes a run for it and actually succeeds at kidnapping two of the players. When word of the kidnapping gets to them he orders the now NPC smuggler to the brig. Even though the droid tells them hey my master was a dupe, I follow a different master and played you as fools.

Well this just angered the player more and he wanted the smuggler thrown in carbonite. On the way down in the lift, I have the smuggler start talking trash as per how he would be played. This angered the mando soldier and who ended up killing the smuggler for threatening his boss. Needless to say I could have stopped it but I was downright mad they took it this far because he was now an NPC and they could act on their desires.

I do not mind rivalries in the party but the killing of a player even one turned into an NPC was downright wrong. My fix was to say the smuggler had a replica droid and was warned by the Jedi there was betrayal from friends. Sneaky but this guy had actually hooked up the party and helped keep them alive more than once.

If I want that kind of game, I have a friend who is an adversarial GM who views games as something to win, it is fun to a point until the party attacks start.

I heard a few other people mention what they or their GM would do in this situation. The reason they know this is because of some level of pre existing social contract, whether official or not.

And that is what I would take out of this post and the resultant responses. It really helps to give the players the lowdown before the group plays. I know of a number of DM’s who actually have preprinted ‘codes of conduct’, but bringing it up the first session works as well.

Good luck. Keep the Faith.

i can’t fathom adults resorting to childish antics like that.

i can comprehend PCvPC conflict over the NPC item if it was in character, if everyone was happy with the consequences i could see death via roleplay but not not in player anger.

i’m truly shocked. i must point out to my players how glad i am that they are all on the same page as me.

It’s then up to the DM what the outcome of the attack is because the DM is controlling the attacking NPC.

PPPS. @Newbie: I hope it all works out for you, but it’s gonna be hard to pull this group back together. The first PC death was bad enough, but the later retaliation (particularly as it came in the middle of an encounter) is likely to have fractured group unity pretty badly.

If you do mansge to get your players back together, I think you all need to sit down and have a roundtable about the games meta-morality. What is and isn’t acceptable, and how to handle intra-party conflict from a metagame perspective.