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Our party is as follows: Ranger, Fighter/Warlord hybrid (me), Battlemind, Cleric, and Rogue.

The Ranger's stats are ridiculous. He never misses any attacks. About three weeks ago, I created a Deva Shaman.. and the "ranger" was the DM (we take turns) and he killed off my character because he hated it so much. His reasoning was "when would we realistically ever run into a Deva??" 

..Um... i thought this was a FANTASY world? Christ.

He gave me a big lecture saying that playing anything aside from a human or an elf is wrong because it makes the game either too easy, or too unrealistic.

My thoughts are, he loves being the brute. He loves having the most strength, and the biggest attacks. Last week while gaming, he came out and told all of us that the rest of the party could run into the bushes because he could just win the fight without us. 

I'm sick of being told what characters to create, and what's "realistic" for D&D .. I was about to roll a Bullywug.. just because it seemed interesting.. until he started complaining about it. But he wants to turn his Ranger into an Ox because he thinks it'll be cool.

Does anyone have any advice to offer on how to deal with someone like this?

But let's handle it anyway. 

I'd say first thing, try having a talk with the player.  it is the player that's the problem here.  Tell him he's seriously cramping your fun, and it's not cool.  Maybe remind him that it's a game, and the goal is for everyone to have fun.  If you wanna run a deva or a bullywug, and everyone else is cool with it, he needs to Man Up and stop being a bitch.   You might try being nicer than I am in this post(I am an ass).  If he's not receptive to this kind of thing, you have two basic options.  One is putting up with him.  This has hampered your fun considerably so far, and will probably continue to do so.  The other is to evaluate your group.  Which players share his basic ideas on these problematic matters?  Are most of them thinking, "Wow, this guy is kind of abrasive." or are they thinking, "F your deva."?  If they are thinking he is overboard in his opinions re: race/class choices, talk to them and maybe you could all sit him down and say, "Hey, everyone needs to have fun, let that happen."  if he can't get the idea, maybe you could get him ostracized and kicked out.  Harsh thing to do, but I've done it before, and sometimes if one player's expectations from the game and the group are that incompatible than everyone else's, it's the best thing for the group as a whole.  On the other hand, if most of them think you are silly for wanting to play a deva, and they back him in these matters, maybe you should begin quietly looking for a new group.  Some groups are ok with rampant asshattery, and that's not for everyone.

Aug 6, 2010 -- 8:04AM, Alitain wrote:

Then in terms of his ranger that seems to be too good to be true, they probably are.  If your the DM for that game then ask to see his character because you feel something isn't right.  Or tell the DM your suspicions and ask the DM to look into it.  I mean I don't know about other people, but if I suspected a player of cheating on their stats I would ask to see their character and work out everything for myself to double check it.  Even if I was wrong, I'd still do it to make sure and if a DM thought that of my character I wouldn't mind showing them either to clear suspicions.

We had a player who used to fudge his rolls A LOT. It got to the point where anytime he would roll a die, he would be snatching it back up almost as quickly as it hit the table. This isn't the same thing that we're discussing, but it has the same effect: The rest of the party feels out-shined. D&D is a team game, plain and simple. If this dick feels the need to break his character, and then go so far as to tell the rest of the party to "go sit on the bench, I got this," then he has no business playing D&D.

If you have a sypathetic DM you can restart or modify the campain so each class fits in well with the background. Maybe you could go to a area where angels are common because their is a great big portal to the upper planes their.