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How do you like to play your PCs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by stingpie@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world
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I'm asking because the question the other day about silliest characters had a lot of funny comments.

Personally, I like to play as characters who are perpetually on the brink of fucking things up. Other players adore this, their PCs don't.

As an example, a week ago, the party was being escorted by a noble to a fort, although the noble was lagging behind. My character (who was a kobold gremlin) announced her presence and demanded to be let in. The guard manning the gate asked how he could be sure that we hadn't killed or kidnapped the noble. My kobold said "Isn't the whole point of kidnapping to announce it and use it as leverage? Why would we be hiding it from you?" The party's 'dad' quickly interjected that we had not kidnapped the noble, and that they were just around the bend. My kobold insisted to be let in, arguing "Just let us in, and if you need to arrest us for killing the noble, you'll have us surrounded." The party dad stared daggers at my character, and asked if she was deliberately trying to fuck things up. (the answer was yes, she had been slighted by the dad who did not let her be a gremlin) The dad asked the games to ignore everything my character had said, and the DM asked us to both do persuasion rolls. The other player rolled a nat one, and I rolled a nat 20. We both said "fuck." At the same time, and he burst out laughing.

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[โ€“] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've played a devious, scheming, money-hungry rogue. I've played an aloof know-it-all wizard. I've played a hippie-dippy can't-we-all-just-get-along bard. I've played a killjoy by-the-book paladin. I've played a 60 IQ barbarian. I've played a problematically-curious artificer. I've played a brooding warlock.

To me, the whole point is to play different characters differently. I tend to swing pretty far from one campaign to the next.

[โ€“] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup, I've enjoyed my 'needs to protect everyone but is socially awkward' half-orc fighter, my 'I'm going to die soon anyway so screw it' tiefling sorcerer, my 'I need to prove myself by wracking up a kill count' orc monk, and my 'I was trapped in the astral plane for a century and attained enlightenment during my spirit journey' human druid, and of course my 'I couldn't be a wizard so they fused me with an ooze symbiote' half-elf oozemancer equally.

Though I do tend to be the initiator. Parties can really get lost in overplanning in my experience, so I'll often have to get the ball rolling. Like when we stand outside a room and discuss 5 plans on how to enter when the DM clearly has an encounter prepared, I'll jump in with plan A. Or the time we debated on how to save the prince as we were fleeing from a coup for an actual real-life 30 minutes so I decided to cast Disguise Self as him and step into the crowded street.