The Dragon Slayers
So, story for you. TL;DR: GM has to deal with two players who are hyper-prepared, take pages and pages of notes, and actively uses everything at their character's disposal to get their goals accomplished in a way that crushes any thought of opposition by the sheer force of temporal power they can bring to bear to satisfy their schemes. I was at a table with a group of hard-core players, and a GM who didn't know what he was getting into. Two of the players kept extensive notes on everything that happened in the game: names of NPCs they met, deals and oaths made, people they saved, and damn near wrote a portfolio on these people. If we wound up going to the same town / city, they'd touch base with these people, cement ties, do favours, etc, etc. Me? I was like 14. I was not ready for this either. I was just along for the ride. Well. One day, the players tell the GM 'we're going to stage a coup'. The region we were in had a tyrant ruling it, and the PCs decided the...