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Originally Posted by whswhs
I ran into that in a campaign decades ago using one of my sets of homebrew rules. The PCs were a group of superheroes; but one of them was a thief in her civilian life. So during combat with a group of villains, she used her powers to pick up some of the current villains' loot. Another PC spotted her doing it, and used HER powers to shut down the first PC's powers, which was embarrassing and hazardous, though it didn't actually harm her.
The first player complained about this not being appropriate, because he was just playing his character as he had defined her. The second player said that he was playing HIS character as he had defined her: as someone who was morally opposed to theft and who didn't want a teammate stealing during missions. The argument lasted for months, because the first player simply couldn't get the idea that his character didn't have "PC immunity."
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The somewhat common (explicit or implicit) prohibition on PVP activity can amount to a blank check for a certain sort of antisocial behavior, if the group doesn't provide other controls.