[Siberys]

Alright, so I've got this problem with some players, and before I explain the problem, I'll present one piece of evidence that it's not me-

Player Group A- 4 Games I've run.
Player Group B- 2 games I've run.

Player group B I've never had problems with, we've always been focused, into gaming, and pretty serious about the adventures and stuff. I meet with them at college just about as often as I meet with Group A at my friends house. Group A however, I've always had problems with. Always.

Now, onto my problem with Group A.

The players are getting a bit out of control. One player insists on making each of his characters ungodly weird. He played a sorcerer with dementia, a pyromaniacal dragonmark rogue with a half demented personality, and now a hyperactive ADHD ridden Pixie Heavy Armor fighter also with a bit of a demented personality. This type of character is fine for a dungeon crawl, but I've never made a dungeon crawl game, I've always tried to have at least 65% of the game roleplaying, skill checks, investigation, etc etc. So in my current game, due to his nature, I started my game only a month ago and we're nearing the end because of his "A killing we will go" character. Another player has absolutely no motivation to play his character any way effectively, in fact 95% of the time the other three players are making decisions FOR him. A third person, I don't have much of a beef with but he makes these great detailed characters, and I'm not talking about stats. He makes these super detailed backgrounds that are just great, but when the game starts, and each session thereafter, his personality is just this apathetic monotone Ben Stein esque character. And finally, the last player, his characters are decent and stuff like that, but he's the most likely to get everybody off topic from gaming, and once we get off topic, we usually don't get back into gaming again for another half hour or so. Kinda ticks me off that we only get 3 hours of gaming done in a 10 hour session.

So, can anyone give me a suggestion of what to do? I mean, the best I have is to give them direct criticism, but even if I criticise myself at the same time, I already know they're gonna give me hell. So...I dunno what to do.