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Terrible RPers
2011-06-02 09:15:41
edited 2011-06-02 09:15:50 in General
Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
Dammit, why is there always one in every single RP?
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So annoying to see him try to cram lolis into everything. Especially when he starts bugging the GM to put them in.
Well, I think some people just do not (yet) have the experience with RPs or the writing talent that would allow them do well in RPs. In those cases, I think that them not being so good at RPs at first helps them to figure out how to perform well in them later. I can see how joining an RP could be really intimidating, especially on a place like TV Tropes where people tend to be good writers, so I would cut people some slack on this front.
That being said, I understand that even with experience with RPs and writing ability, people can still do poorly in RPs if they have incredibly overpowered characters or if they do not respect each character's autonomy (i.e. making other people's characters do things, especially when those actions are out-of-character). In those situations, I think the people who behave poorly in a RP are to blame since such actions are clearly against the rules and they should know better than to perform them.
I'm more complaining about the second type, who are just terrible at it, to the point where it affects other people's enjoyment.
I'd always play a Sorcerer because I wanted Moar Fireballz... then since mine was the only character with a high Charisma I'd have to do the diplomacy stuff.... Some of the nicer DMs would tell me "If you have a Cha of 18, you wouldn't say that"... while the nastier ones would just let me offend absolutely every NPC in the game while trying to be diplomatic, and the campaign would be ruined.
The rest of the time I'd be coming up with perverse uses for Evard's Black Tentacles, reminding people that Magic Mouth only goes away when you make it talk, and having fun with my Sex Mephit familiar (I seem to recall I justified it as a specially trained hybrid of a Water Mephit and a Salt Mephit). One party I was with was unanimous in worshipping "the Filth Dragon" anyway.... so it all worked out.
Here's the story of Chris the Asshole.
Chris is what we in the tabletop gaming culture call "THAT GUY." He is, to put it bluntly, without redeeming qualities as an individual and as a player. Out of the game, we're fairly tolerant of him - his borderline racism against white people, his clumsy attempts to slam Fox News (not that I like the network, but DAMN are his slams idiotic), his abominable poetry and his irritating laugh - but at the table, we're there specifically to have fun, and every fucking time he involves himself, it devolves into a shitfest.
The first time we played with Chris the Asshole, it was in a generic high fantasy homebrew campaign. I was a half-elf sorcerer named after Jack Vance, my buddies were all playing clerics or monks or whatever, and Chris the Asshole, well, he plopped down and told us that he wanted to play a Githyanki pirate psion who worshiped Eilistraee. Who, coincidentally, didn't exist in this setting.
I won't bore you with the details, but his character derailed the plot by attacking the other characters, and half the party died in the cold. Chris the Asshole ragequit and stomped off.
The next time we played, we'd upgraded the setting; it was Pathfinder, and Ravnica was the setting. We were all playing interesting but coherent characters - I was doing my best Helena Bonham Carter impersonation for my CE Oracle who specialized in healing spells - and then Chris the Asshole showed up.
He decided that he would play a "chaotic shiny" (his words, not mine) ghost gnome rogue. In a setting in which there WERE no gnomes. Chris the Asshole delighted us in informing us how his gnome juggled his knives (and, disturbingly, had brought a kunai to illustrate) and acted in every. Single. Turn. Whether it was speaking ("as a free action!") juggling ("as a free action!") or trying to distract party members, Chris the Asshole wouldn't let a single round go by without acting in at least every person's turn. It might not have been so bad if Chris the Asshole hadn't been awkwardly singing Spanish rap music the entire time. Or if he hadn't been trying to hit on one of our female players. Who was playing a goblin.
Needless to say, Chris the Asshole's character didn't last long. Even though we spoke to him and tried to get him to stop being such an asshole, he refused to change. So, the first chance we got, the cavalier "failed" his will save against fear, I "forgot" my healing spells, the gnome got "critically hit" and we rubbed sewer water into the ghost gnome's open wounds as he lay unconscious.
I believe we've answered the age-old question of whether or not a ghost can die of a septic infection.
Nick the Swing is only but one of the many terrible RPers out there that I've seen.He's certainly an awful RPer. I remember him in Matrix's one RP; he spent the whole time trying to make the RP all about his character, and also being absurdly paranoid and assuming every NPC was evil.
And then not long after he got banned, Matrix decided he was tired of running the thing...