How to deal with difficult players who don’t participate? /u/kinky_Goblin22 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

Hey everyone, I just had my first DnD campaign as an DM with a group that I already played with two times.

One of the players build their entire character around the idea that they could long rest after every fight (which didn’t work with the story since it was a one shot) and the other players also wanted to continue the story. In the end, they refused to fight along with the team and I decided to not give them loot or exp.

When I tried talking about it after the session, they blamed me for not playing two stories at the same time and think it’s unfair that they don’t get any exp from the fight.

I really don’t know how to handle this properly and hope that some more experienced DM’s have had similar situations and came up with good solutions.

Hey everyone, I just had my first DnD campaign as an DM with a group that I already played with two times.

One of the players build their entire character around the idea that they could long rest after every fight (which didn’t work with the story since it was a one shot) and the other players also wanted to continue the story. In the end, they refused to fight along with the team and I decided to not give them loot or exp.

When I tried talking about it after the session, they blamed me for not playing two stories at the same time and think it’s unfair that they don’t get any exp from the fight.

I really don’t know how to handle this properly and hope that some more experienced DM’s have had similar situations and came up with good solutions.