It's true. Honestly, I've never understood how anyone sees it as a problem. I don't mean to sound unpleasant; I genuinely have never gotten it.
You're the GM. You literally control everything in the multiverse except for the players' PCs. If a character needs to die, it's always an option. Sometimes dragons just...show up.
Ok, semi-quick example:
I once had a player create a stereotypical "lone wolf" ninja-y PC who, instead of sitting around the fire with the rest of the party, sat up alone in trees and whatnot. Very early on in the adventure, the group is passing a shack in a swamp and this lone wolf investigates it by listening. He hears laughter and general good cheer. He goes to look in. He sees four half-orc men playing strip cooord-aath (it's like poker, but with dominoes). They are unarmed and no threat.
He says he wants to bar the door, set fire to the cabin and roast the four people alive because his character hates gay people and that's just what he'd do.
Ok.
So his PC bars the door and sets the fire.
I had the four half-orcs - admittedly bumped up a few levels as Monks, I won't lie - climb out of the unlocked window he hadn't noticed and killed the PC right then and there. The party just watched, dumbfounded.
Good times.
Don't let something silly like a crazy player ruin a perfectly good story.
You're the GM. You literally control everything in the multiverse except for the players' PCs. If a character needs to die, it's always an option. Sometimes dragons just...show up.
Ok, semi-quick example:
I once had a player create a stereotypical "lone wolf" ninja-y PC who, instead of sitting around the fire with the rest of the party, sat up alone in trees and whatnot. Very early on in the adventure, the group is passing a shack in a swamp and this lone wolf investigates it by listening. He hears laughter and general good cheer. He goes to look in. He sees four half-orc men playing strip cooord-aath (it's like poker, but with dominoes). They are unarmed and no threat.
He says he wants to bar the door, set fire to the cabin and roast the four people alive because his character hates gay people and that's just what he'd do.
Ok.
So his PC bars the door and sets the fire.
I had the four half-orcs - admittedly bumped up a few levels as Monks, I won't lie - climb out of the unlocked window he hadn't noticed and killed the PC right then and there. The party just watched, dumbfounded.
Good times.
Don't let something silly like a crazy player ruin a perfectly good story.