The reason for your character to stay doesnt have to be something they agree with. It can be someone else’s reason. And ‘the quest to fuck off and do something else’ can be fun too. You seem to be working with a very authoritarian concept of game. Those can work sometimes, but are very limiting. less friction Not always desirable.

You can do this, it just takes more work.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, might they simply be telling true stories out of order?

Unhand me, rizzless jive-turkey!

That rape had better involve gunhplay, young man, or I’m calling ICE!

Dm: The rat takes the “help” action Me: sheer horror

Or a character whose not wanting to be there will be fun for the whole table.

Why not both?

No idea. Not even the most meta-gaming-est members of that party had a workaround.

Our group has done this. Shot our paladin at a dragon to try to wrestle the wretched wyrm to the ground. The wrestling part was not very effective, but we did manage to fell the beast, so we had that going for us.

It might not seem more fun that way, but surprisingly it is. See: BLeeM and how all his BBEGs are actually Capitalism

Oh no, you weren’t supposed to take me seriously

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alignment was removed, now the closest thing we have is holy/unholy sanctifications

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tl;dr is it depends on the enemies

Or Volo told so many versions of this story, embelishing so much, everybody heard conflicting versions.

Chronomancy is the greatest magic there is. Also, yoink! That’s fuckin’ gold. 🤌

IIRC, he got kicked for lying about his rolls. ‍️

Oh. I’ve heard about that. Then again, I was going for the Tibearius angle. Guess I should work on make my humour more notable.