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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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[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It sounds like I'm the party "dad". I have enough needless friction and frustration in real life, so during game time I just want to feel like everyone around me is doing the things they do well, together, to solve the puzzles and defeat the bad guys with reasonable efficiency. Don't get me wrong, occasional mischief for comic relief is fine, just there's usually a way to do that without unilaterally dragging the whole party into unnecessary conflicts or making every social encounter about roleplaying oppositional defiant disorder.