I player character who is being an asshole can be a lot of fun to weave a great story. I played a huge asshole of a character, who was not afraid of being an asshole. I’ve also played characters who did not trust the group at all and was already to kill/back stab everyone.

My last character was wearing warpstone armor and was slowly going paranoid. I made it clear to the table that at somepoint, I was going to have to fight everyone. My poor character died in a 1 v 1 fight against a wizard.

It is a fine line to play these types of characters cause it’s easy to affect everyone’s else enjoyment of the game.

Now, an asshole player has no spot at the tbale.

And in the right game! A big part of these things, more in some systems than others, is writing a story together.

And you all need to be able to adapt and move with that friction, either at creation or afterwards.

Some groups are really adaptive at one place and really rigid in the other.

If you’re gonna be causing friction with the party, I’m okay with you being a chaotic little chaos gremlin during RP, but a team player when the cards are down.

Alternatively, don’t be an asshole if there’s anyone who won’t have fun with it

The players should never have long-term friction; the characters can have all the friction they want so long as the players are all getting along out of the game.

Playing in a game where the mandate is to not be that right now. It’s a much taller order, but I am enjoying it.

These are good rules of thumb, but not absolute.

If you’re at a ‘having fun with a group’ thing, yes.

Very important clarification!

Do you normally go to “be an asshole with a group” things?

Depending on your definition; maybe, but they exist regardless of your definition.