Re: [HoE] killing a PC on purpose.

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

Sounds like everyone has some good ideas. Sorry to hear that he's
determined to be a bad apple.

I like the "hovercycle won't run without the Junker" idea but it sounds
like he's not. I suppose he's got a point about if he spent full price
for it, then it ought to work... then again, even a brand new hovercycle
won't run without gas. Make gas very scarce, or have the Junker convert
the hovercycle so that it only runs on Spook Juice (possibly under the
pretence of making it go faster). Then, whenever you need to move the
party somewhere else, tell him he's heard there's cheap gas/spook
juice/fuel/etc. there.

Other suggestions like giving him a disease so he depends on the other
party members... well, it all sounds pretty heavy-handed, and the player
will obviously see through it and get even worse. In this situation, it
sounds like he'll resent any heavy-handed tactics designed to keep him
from going off alone.

My suggestion: send him off alone, he gets jumped by road gangers who
steal his bike and leave him for dead. Now, this will probably piss him
off to no end, but just take him aside and explain to him that stealing
the bike is part of the story, he'll be running into the gangers down
the road, he WILL be getting it back (put it in writing if you have to)
and you'd appreciate it if he'd just go along with it for now. When the
party finds him or he wanders back, in the next town they hit, he hears
the road gangers who have his bike just went through. They took off in
whatever direction you want to move the party. Turns out the road gang
is working for one of your main bad guys, or whatever... try that. 

If he's determined to be a pain in the tuckus (tucus? sp? shrug), then
let him hang himself. If he's the kind of player I think he is,
everybody else in the party will want to lynch him. If he continues to
be an ass, tell everybody else "If you want to get rid of him, I won't
stop you." When they waste him, he'll pout a bit but I'm willing to bet
his next character will be the dead one's brother, same stats, same
hovercycle, only now he's Vengeful and Bloodthirsty if he wasn't already
and hell-bent on avenging his brother's death. Let the PCs kill him
again and again until he either starts to cooperate or stops playing. If
he won't learn to play along with others, then you really don't need him
in your group.