Oh goodness. Ripping off their heads sounds like a bunch of fun actually. Come to think of it, it's the players in my campaigns (I typically only run 3.5e currently) that draw a picture and colour it in, or even print one off the 'net that end up first in the to-kill list. Takes a few times before the players realize that they mysteriously keep loosing miscellaneous items out of their inventory, and that for some reason, no one else seems to get caught in the traps...
I digress, however.
There's only been two times I've ever come up against a power-hungry-munchkin-twink mike type of person. One I simply let the players deal with, since he was the newbie to the group. They ate him and devoured his character sheet, although, I still maintained they left too much DNA evidence of his existance. They did a far better job than I could have, and he, strangely enough, never did return.
The other one played the God GM mode. He'd set up an impossible campaign, get us to (reluctantly) agree to let him GM ("C'mon guys, it's not like last time! I swear!"), and then proceed to stick us up against impossible and impervious monsters of his own devising. Sick bastard, but what do you do? Oh yeah, ban him from the GM'ing rotation. Don't think he ever did catch on, since it was a very casual group. He stayed with the group for about two years before the group disbanded.
So I think it is possible to live with a mike character type in the party, but... If you bring in enough spare character sheets, a sense of humour, and a shovel in your trunk for those "just in case" moments, it's not too horrible. Most of the time the idio... um, person, doesn't quite realize they're being made fun of behind everyone else's back, and it's always good to have someone to be the first to enter any area... Even if he is playing the spellcaster. Can always find a good reason that he should go first. ^_^ And if he complains, he can always go last, and get gobbled by whatever's stalking the party.
/inane rambling that derailed itself before it even began...
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