This is my first post on a thread, and I'd like to do a combination anecdote/cry for help involving my current gaming campaign. It is very long, but I feel that writing down all of this is for the best.
Imagine a beautiful, hand-crafted couple of towns that serve as the starting point for a huge campaign world. A world named Eska. I created this world, with it's strange governments and illogical creation, from scratch. It seemed like the perfect place for a campaign.
Until my two players created their characters.
One of the players created a decent character- A member of a race of angels known as the Khan created by a mad god. He named himself @*& (pronounced "Amphora Asterisk Ampersand") and I wrote his backstory because he couldn't think of one. He's the good player, the one who rolls with the punches, etc.
Then, there's the one who will go unnamed, who will call the Impulsively Suicidal Elf. The ISE (ISE ISE baby...) created a character who was not only the son of a god, but came from a world that didn't exist in my normal world, was a race that wasn't in my races at all, was more powerful than anything I could throw at him, and who killed himself every time anyone did something he didn't like, or I told him that he couldn't do something. I also contributed to his broken-ness when I applied an unrestricted magic-creation system and basically never got around to creating hit points for anything.
That was a good fraction of a year or so. I divide my game into fifteen to thirty minute sessions known as "episodes", and organized the episodes into seasons of 21. Anyway, moving on from that, we're on Season 4, Episode 19 or so, now.
I could go on forever on all of the stupid decisions my players (mostly ISE) have made, but in short, the good guy has now been killed by his own son while tricking his son into being killed (so has ISE, but death isn't too big of a deal in my campaign), while ISE has become a bloodthirsty, insane rapist.
Here are the first four episodes: Coliseum P1-P4, detailing the beginning of their journey as I can best remember it.
1. Lawless
We begin in a man-ruled city known as Fuclana (fyu-lah-nah), where a drunken man stumbled up to @ and asked for ale. @ gave him holy water. As can be imagined, it burned a bit. A government official ran in and asked @ to hand over his holy water, as he had just assaulted a commoner. @ handed it over, and somehow the official ended up drinking it, and once again, it burned. At this point, ISE and @ were accused of more and more ridiculous things, ad were eventually taken to the Coliseum, to fight for their freedom. When they killed basically everyone but themselves when pitted against one another, they were sent to their cell, where they heard their foe enter the arena...
2. Enter The Lion
@ and ISE entered the arena and had to fight a talking lion. @ tried to reason with the lion to get it to join their side, at which point a warning shot was fired at them from the stands. @ managed to fake-kill it in order to secure its freedom, and a medic was sent in. ISE walked off because of something, to go speak to some people about something or other.
3. Negotiations
ISE spent an entire episode doing nothing other than stating how above human law he was, giving a backstory to his race that made them gods, and admitting to a dozen or so crimes after spinning a web of deceit.
4. Decisive Battle
ISE killed a government official with his "magical blade of power" or whatever.
So Yeah.
I need help.
I only plan on there being one more season, but I want to cut down ISE a lot of notches before the final battle.
Can anyone tell me how to deal with:
1. The idea that his race are all immortal creators of everything good. (I've put up with him claiming his species invented the computer while he's looking at a computer that serves as a huge plot point because he doesn’t understand it.)
2. His impossibly powerful spells and use of magic to do anything he wants?
3. His desire to be better than anything I make and his creation of backstories for him and his species simply to make them better and to screw with my plot. (I'm planning on simply having him cursed so that every time he makes something up, people try to kill him or he starts beeping really loudly.)
4. His suicidal impulses (which he retcons frequently).
Please help.
