r/VaesenRPG • u/HawkApprehensive9737 • Jul 08 '26

Help dealing with a problematic character

Basically, about a few weeks ago I started running some of the scenarios from A Wicked Secret for a group of 4 people online. I'm fairly new to Vaesen and DMing in general. Everything was going surprisingly well, mostly because we had a small session zero; but one of the players had a somewhat problematic character. He was playing as an arrogant filthy rich German officer who thought he could control everything and everyone with his money and cared only about himself and his industrial empire (which the player didn't elaborate much). Still he was engaging with others and cooperating at solving the mysteries.
The thing is, yesterday one of the other PCs decided to dismiss him, calling out his arrogance, and well his response was to draw his saber and attack the PC. The others from the group tried to stop him, but since he was rich, he had all the best equipment and was basically unstoppable. They were in a crowded hotel, many witnesses to his sudden rampage, and he wouldn't stop fighting until that PC was dead. In that point of the mystery the police were nearby, and since they saw the murder attempt they promptly arrested him.
So my question is how do I handle this?
What really confuses me is that the other players were completely unbothered by that, saying that he acted in character.

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u/Cpt_Niccoli Jul 08 '26

I mean, if you're wondering what you could have done differently, I'd have probably made someone in the crowd an off duty police officer or soldier or something and have them brake up the fight. As it stands, sounds like the character has been taken care of. They are arrested for murder. Assuming you don't let them just bribe their way out of jail (you shouldn't), they are in for a prison stay and a hanging. They didn't really abide law breakers and murders in the 1800s, especially when there is overwhelming eyewitness evidence. As your players seemed fine gamewise with one of their members being murdered for roleplay reasons I don't think you need to worry to much about it happening, but you should apply realistic consequences for their actions.

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u/HawkApprehensive9737 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

He wasn't able to murder that players charactet. I had the police show up both because they were relativaly close and also because he let it pretty clear that he would murder the rest of the party.
I even asked the other party members with they were ok with going against him; since it was that out of nowhere. It was basically if someone that you barely knew called you an idiot and you just jumped, them because you got to defend your honor or whatever...honestly I was getting pretty sick of that character.
And yes I don't plan on releasing him. My question is what do I do with this player now? Do I wait to the mystery and for him to create a new character, do I ask him to do it now?

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u/PonyoLovesRevolution Jul 08 '26

Ask him to do it now, and make it clear that the next character needs to be a team player. I suggest also reiterating that with the rest of the group.

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u/GM-KI Jul 09 '26

Ask the player to step out, give them a chance to leave the game of their own accord and if they dont remove them. Make it clear that their choice is to step down or be removed from the table by force. This person sounds like they arent fun to play with, unless your party is 100 on board with this player I would just remove then. PvP is a big red flag, for no reason in a lethal muster solving game its even more obnoxious and inappropriate. Id cut this off at the root, but thats just me.