What do you do with a player who’s too dense to let other’s play? /u/PopeAxolotl DnD: Roll for Initiative!

I’ll try to keep this short, my group and I (except for our DM) are all fairly new to dnd. We play remotely on a pretty regular basis now after a period of inconsistency. We’re still early in the campaign so I’m not expecting total cohesion between our characters and goals but I wouldn’t say it’s off to a smooth start.

We have a player who, while very enthusiastic, seems to either not realize or not care that there are other people at the table. This individual is playing a barbarian who’s sole focus so far seems to be to watch everyone in the group set up a dialogue or a charisma based scenario, let it go well, and then proceed to completely fuck up whatever was going on and giggle like an idiot while everyone else in the group groans. To complicate matters they don’t seem to be acting in malice, just pure belligerent ignorance as they have seemingly no concept of how fucking annoying this is to all of us at the table. To make matters worse we have a player who frequently needs to miss sessions, which wouldn’t be an issue except that this other player has the dm’s permission to control both his character and the absent player’s character every time that happens. Which leads to them taking hour long turns where they role play back and forth TO THEM-FUCKING-SELVES, while completely ignoring the rest of the group and the groups goals.

Obviously we need to communicate our frustrations as players or this is gonna boil over, does anyone have any advice on how to approach that?

I’ll try to keep this short, my group and I (except for our DM) are all fairly new to dnd. We play remotely on a pretty regular basis now after a period of inconsistency. We’re still early in the campaign so I’m not expecting total cohesion between our characters and goals but I wouldn’t say it’s off to a smooth start.

We have a player who, while very enthusiastic, seems to either not realize or not care that there are other people at the table. This individual is playing a barbarian who’s sole focus so far seems to be to watch everyone in the group set up a dialogue or a charisma based scenario, let it go well, and then proceed to completely fuck up whatever was going on and giggle like an idiot while everyone else in the group groans. To complicate matters they don’t seem to be acting in malice, just pure belligerent ignorance as they have seemingly no concept of how fucking annoying this is to all of us at the table. To make matters worse we have a player who frequently needs to miss sessions, which wouldn’t be an issue except that this other player has the dm’s permission to control both his character and the absent player’s character every time that happens. Which leads to them taking hour long turns where they role play back and forth TO THEM-FUCKING-SELVES, while completely ignoring the rest of the group and the groups goals.

Obviously we need to communicate our frustrations as players or this is gonna boil over, does anyone have any advice on how to approach that?