Tjack

Death Metal......duh.😜

Shoot ‘em in the leg to keep them from getting away then chain ‘em to the table.   That’ll learn ‘em.

You let that kill the campaign?   Wow, you really stick to your guns.  I would have either retconned the whole thing, “It was an evil hallucination, it never happened!”  Or figured a way to bring him back, either as a friendly ghost (Casper!) or maybe as a guide sent from a higher plane of existence to help the players.
   Anything to keep the game going.

Shoot ‘em in the leg to keep them from getting away then chain ‘em to the table.   That’ll learn ‘em.

Shoot ‘em in the leg to keep them from getting away then chain ‘em to the table.   That’ll learn ‘em.

The Times They Are A-Changin'
 
The Sound of Silence
 
Immigrant Song 

“a friend”?????  You have an interesting definition of that word.

There is no “everyone else”.  It’s a three person game and two of them for whatever reason don’t want to do anything and let Cygnia do all the work with no roleplay from either one of them.  Even the GM is frustrated with their inaction. If the GM and the one useful player are both tired of dealing with this...then nobody’s paying them to keep these two yahoo’s occupied.

Reminds me some of my current Discord D&D campaign. The power gamer is running a 10 year old celestial lost boy who just at level 13 learned common. The explorer is party leader who is playing a monk with a vow of silence. The chaotic is running a Kenku warlock. Our last session had the power gamer guest GM a snowball fight… A bit a comic relief after the black dragon attack…

President Putin is sitting in his office when his telephone rings.
 
"Hello, Mr. Putin!" a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Cork, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"
 
"Well, Paddy," Putin replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
 
"Right now," says Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is meself, me cousin Seán, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire darts team from the pub. That makes eight!"
 
Putin paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 1,000,000 men in my army waiting to move on my command."
 
"Begoora!" says Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back."
 
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy calls again. "Mr. Putin, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
 
"And what equipment would that be Paddy?" Putin asks.
 
"Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
 
Putin sighs amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 60,000 tanks and 50,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I have increased my army to 1,500,000 since we last spoke."
 
"Saints preserve us!" says Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
 
Sure enough, Paddy rings again the next day. "Mr. Putin, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We have modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Bar have joined us as well!"
 
Putin was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 1000 bombers and 2000 fighter planes. My military bases are surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I have increased my army to 2,000,000!"
 
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" says Paddy, "I will have to ring you back."
 
Sure enough, Paddy calls again the next day. "Good mornin', Mr. Putin! I am sorry to inform you that we have had to call off the war."
 
"Really? I am sorry to hear that," says Putin. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
 
"Well," says Paddy, "we had a long chat over a few pints of Guinness, and we decided there is no way we can feed 2,000,000 prisoners."

Corn is subsidized because Iowa is a Presidential Primary state.  And because the voting blocks and lobbying groups the Midwest states represent make sure that’s the way the Govt. spending goes.
   Robert Heinlein said “Anytime you ask “why is something like that” the answer is always...money.”

Cutting thru all the debate from the people who know the numbers much better than I do, it seemed that your main point was “Would you find it easy to change?” not “Is this a better way of doing this?” 
   The answer is...The longer anyone has been doing something successfully the harder it’s going to be to change.
If you take two players one of whom is playing their first game and the second is a gamer of twenty years or so it’s only natural that the new guy will take to your variation faster and easier.  It’s human nature.  The folks on this board are definitely in the twenty years or more camp.  And older people (myself included) have a harder time with change.  This may lead you to a skewed result in your poll.  Sorry, just my opinion.   You’ll notice I never commented on whether it was a good rule change or not...and I’m not gonna.
 

*No Particular Order*
  In my Life - The Beatles
  In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (but the acoustic version by Jeffrey Gains)
  As Time Goes By- Sung by Dooley Wilson for the movie Casablanca

Well, the character IS Chaotic Neutral -- and currently invisible.
 
GM is gonna probably have me merge with another game with players that Actually Do Stuff.

Some people just aren’t comfortable leading a group.  Especially if it’s a group of strangers like an on-line game. So I can’t really blame the player who admits that right off the bat.  I might take issue with the one who doesn’t post at all. Maybe they’re just wanting to go from combat to combat, and not actually roleplay.  
   Either way its not good that you’re getting stuck this way, ruining your experience.  Talk to the GM, maybe he can do something you can’t by talking directly to them. Possibly he may know one or both of these players and can give you some advice on dealing with them.  
   Remember this isn’t your job, if you’re not having fun then go someplace else where you will. 

The Daily Bucket Letters page
 
Here I sit trapped in this automated mechanical stall barely room to move, breathe, and denied touch of kindnesses as I wallow in my own filth the milk stolen from me by machines pumping my gift through tubes.
 
Happy Cows come from California my ass!
 
-Cali Cow

Every TV comedy, from I Love Lucy thru M*A*S*H, All in the Family, both The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart up until very recently had laugh tracks.   That’s as arbitrary as someone I knew who said he wouldn’t bother watching any movie that was in black & white.  He didn’t mean just modern ones shot that way, he meant “old movies” as well.

Also, I have been known to be motivated by a "SCUBA Snack"...

When I was in my 20's and working in the repair department of car dealerships, most anyone who'd been working a couple of decades in the business had a horror story to tell about someone getting their necktie caught in a fan belt. Usually happened to one of the service advisors writing up the repair order or some customer leaning over his own engine pointing out what he thinks needs repair.
 
Slightly less common were stories of Things Gone Wrong with people who wear steel toe shoes in the shop so they could avoid minor accidents. Usually those stories involve large car parts crushing the shoe anyway and trapping the poor person's foot inside until the emergency room can figure out how to safely cut the footwear off without the person bleeding out or losing most of his foot.
 
Stories about people seriously messing up their hand by wearing their wedding ring while working on cars (or painting houses) was a distant third. But I actually saw people whose hands had been visibly mangled from that one.

So, did he close his eyes and plug his ears through the beginning and end of The Wizard of Oz?

Some people just aren’t comfortable leading a group.  Especially if it’s a group of strangers like an on-line game. So I can’t really blame the player who admits that right off the bat.  I might take issue with the one who doesn’t post at all. Maybe they’re just wanting to go from combat to combat, and not actually roleplay.  
   Either way its not good that you’re getting stuck this way, ruining your experience.  Talk to the GM, maybe he can do something you can’t by talking directly to them. Possibly he may know one or both of these players and can give you some advice on dealing with them.  
   Remember this isn’t your job, if you’re not having fun then go someplace else where you will. 

Some people just aren’t comfortable leading a group.  Especially if it’s a group of strangers like an on-line game. So I can’t really blame the player who admits that right off the bat.  I might take issue with the one who doesn’t post at all. Maybe they’re just wanting to go from combat to combat, and not actually roleplay.  
   Either way its not good that you’re getting stuck this way, ruining your experience.  Talk to the GM, maybe he can do something you can’t by talking directly to them. Possibly he may know one or both of these players and can give you some advice on dealing with them.  
   Remember this isn’t your job, if you’re not having fun then go someplace else where you will.