MrMerchant
June 14th, 2008, 22:52
I'm new here, so I wanted to spread some love around.
So I'm starting a new 4th ed. campaign and I'm a tad nervous DMing because some previous attempts were nuts because of crazy players. My personal favorites include...
The sex-starved maniac. He ALWAYS plays a female character and she's a giant whore. In fact, it's not uncommon for his character to rabidly flirt with the male PC's, and while I encourage people to RP, he makes the whole scene very uncomfortable. The last game he wanted to play a Female Drow Cleric of some goddess of sex. I often find myself striking his characters down with lightning, fire, or owlbears.
Mr. Exotic. Always plays a non-standard PC race, even if it doesn't make sense in the campaign. Drow, Centaur, Satyr, Pixie, Thri-kreen, Yak-man, etc, etc. Now he played a goblin once, that was fun, but he always insist on playing something that can't walk into town without being gawked at or killed on sight. I can't make a campaign that starts at lvl 1, because he always had a ECL.
The Rules Lawyer. He's the most veteran player of the group, and he used to DM a lot back in the day, but he still thinks that D&D is meant to be a contest between the PC's and the DM. As a DM he tries to kill as many PC's as possible and the only thing that stands in his way is the dice and your understanding of the rules. As a player, he does his best to become untouchable. His last character was a warlock who would take flight as soon as possible and snipe from max range. It got to a point where I'd have to tailor fights in order to challenge him.
The Girlfriend. Either mine or someone else's. They're just there because they want to get involved with their guy, but they end up becoming a strange amalgam of everyone else's bad habits. She instantly run to her bf's aid on anything, the sex-starved maniac runs to her aid and agrees with anything she says, Mr. Exotic gets her to play something overly complicated, despite her not knowing what she's getting into, and the Rules Lawyer hates her guts because she's new.
The Momorpager. This is a guy someone knows from WoW or some other MMORPG. He's never played D&D before, so math scares him. RP makes him uncomfortable. He also doesn't understand the mechanics very well, and treats stealth as invisibility.
There's my crazies, what kind of wierdos do you guys play with?
So I'm starting a new 4th ed. campaign and I'm a tad nervous DMing because some previous attempts were nuts because of crazy players. My personal favorites include...
The sex-starved maniac. He ALWAYS plays a female character and she's a giant whore. In fact, it's not uncommon for his character to rabidly flirt with the male PC's, and while I encourage people to RP, he makes the whole scene very uncomfortable. The last game he wanted to play a Female Drow Cleric of some goddess of sex. I often find myself striking his characters down with lightning, fire, or owlbears.
Mr. Exotic. Always plays a non-standard PC race, even if it doesn't make sense in the campaign. Drow, Centaur, Satyr, Pixie, Thri-kreen, Yak-man, etc, etc. Now he played a goblin once, that was fun, but he always insist on playing something that can't walk into town without being gawked at or killed on sight. I can't make a campaign that starts at lvl 1, because he always had a ECL.
The Rules Lawyer. He's the most veteran player of the group, and he used to DM a lot back in the day, but he still thinks that D&D is meant to be a contest between the PC's and the DM. As a DM he tries to kill as many PC's as possible and the only thing that stands in his way is the dice and your understanding of the rules. As a player, he does his best to become untouchable. His last character was a warlock who would take flight as soon as possible and snipe from max range. It got to a point where I'd have to tailor fights in order to challenge him.
The Girlfriend. Either mine or someone else's. They're just there because they want to get involved with their guy, but they end up becoming a strange amalgam of everyone else's bad habits. She instantly run to her bf's aid on anything, the sex-starved maniac runs to her aid and agrees with anything she says, Mr. Exotic gets her to play something overly complicated, despite her not knowing what she's getting into, and the Rules Lawyer hates her guts because she's new.
The Momorpager. This is a guy someone knows from WoW or some other MMORPG. He's never played D&D before, so math scares him. RP makes him uncomfortable. He also doesn't understand the mechanics very well, and treats stealth as invisibility.
There's my crazies, what kind of wierdos do you guys play with?