Do you have a player in your group that does a full 180 with the roleplaying?

Do you have a player in your group that does a full 180 with the roleplaying?

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We got player that activates only after 3 (or more) beers and goes from your classic automaton, throwing dice when asked to epic-tier roleplayer and tactical mind behind current plot.
He just need to loosen up a bit

Totally me.

IRL
>Loud, super social, really talkative, have been called obnoxious, total "live in the moment" person

In RP Imagination Land
>Always play older sage-like characters, younger characters looking for some sort of enlightment or self-discipline, or geeky "book-smart" characters who spend all their time on theorycraft and study.

The only girl on the group.
Quiet bookworm pushover in the real world, outspoken nympho murderhobo in-game

Yep. And to DM for him is confusing as fuck.

But I get more annoyed by players who do or say something stupid in character, then I react to it unfavorably as an NPC or something, and they say "WAIT WAIT WAIT. I decided that I DON'T do/say that."

She sounds cute, you should ask her out

Foolish autist you don't play with women to begin with. And if you must you sure as hell don't mix relationships with your gaming group.

>you don't play with women to begin with
I was going to argue, but then this happend
>you sure as hell don't mix relationships with your gaming group

Either way, it's always true. Never, ever, no matter fucking what, mix relationship other than friendship with your gaming group. It usually backfire BIG time, not to mention it's just tasteless when bunch of kissless virgins first get some girl to their group and then proceed to "outdo" each other with laughably cheap moves toward her.

Call me a bitch, but you deserve all the scorn every time you didn't get clear and strong "Fuck off, creep" and instead start excusing your obnoxious behaviour with friendzone and other made-up shit to cover for being just socially inept

I'm usually the guy who goes 180.

IRL
- don't care/hate ideas of countries, politics, religion, patriotism. I find most of them products of age past and when people cling to some of those it really irks me. For example "football club" won. That means we won. Actually not one of you played in that football match and I don't see why you are all talking about it as if you were the ones playing in that game.

In RP
- I usually go full "legend of Galactic Heroes" Empire mode. Aristocracy, meritocracy. For empire and emperor. Empire as an ideal can never be wrong. Corrupt officials and weak emperor are at fault. Competent people at right places will usher as at the new prosperous age.

What if the relationship is with a man? Checkmate atheists.

Maybe its just because I'm a bit older but most of the groups I've played in over the last 10 or so years have included at least one guy's wife, and the GM for the current game I'm in is one of the other players' fiance who met through gaming.

In fact I see "never bring relationships into games" a lot here and its always seemed like weird advice, because this would be the second married/to-be married couple I've know who got together through gaming.

I could careless about being a spectator of pro sports but if you don't understand why people like and identify with pro sports you are autistic as fuck.

I make it a policy to never play myself when roleplaying. Don't know if I've ever done a full 180. Although, my current character speaks with a stutter and is shy, while I'm pretty outspoken.
Incidentally, where is that image from?

Forever DM of 25+ yrs I've never had a wife or gf in my group that was there so let for her own interest in playing an RPG. Most are clingy types in one way or another. Or they are the sickening sort of couple that does absolutely everything together.

For me gaming is boys night out and there aren't many things more annoying then a girl that wants to be one of the guys.

Same. Either it's friendship, or officially stay the fuck out of the table with that bullshit.

user, I'm myself 27 and my regular, old-ass group consist at this point from nobody else but married people. Thing is - it's not brought to the table.
And if I've learned anything for past 14 years of role-playing - relationships are off limits. They bring a really, really heavy baggage to the table and if not the couple itself, then someone in the party will start stirring shit up because of it. In fact, it's usually just like that - some sperg being butthurt and envy as fuck, so starts flipping shit, ruining it for everyone.

Not celebrating an achievement of selected few individuals as if they were my own achievement makes me autistic? Okay.

I think that there was an art assignment (youtube.com/channel/UCmQThz1OLYt8mb2PU540LOA) that talked about how we are different people in different places. can't find it right now, however.

Because you are misinterpreting it.
It means "don't bring relationship issues up DURING GAME TIME OR IN CONTEXT OF THE GAME", not "don't have an SO near the game group".
Hell, I stealthed in my SO into my game group for almost a year and a half, and no one knew because neither of us acted like a couple.
I had one of my boys stir up some trouble when he knowing joined my group after an absence with his SO that he knew he was gonna break up with, and when he did, drama bomb.

More like 360, if you know what I mean.

pretty much this. Keep your relationship from the table. Few times I had friends bring girls, they were in relationship or trying to score with, to the gaming table. I would always separate them on opposite side of the table and put the girl next to the friend who was good with explaining the game in easy to understand, non-threatening way.

I'm not really a religious person, but some of the most fun I've had is when playing devoted Clerics or Paladins. Just shouting about their god and smiting heathens is great.

I've noticed a few atheists in my various groups usually jump at playing divine or religious characters.

I don't really have any theory why, but they're having fun so it's all good.

Reverse for me. Apparently for all that matters, I'm a religious guy, just because being practicing believer. And I am absolutely unable to bring myself to play as religious characters, not to mention priesthood of any kind. And it's not some "it's against my religion" bullshit

Come to think about it, I guess it's about extremism. After all, what else a paladin is if not an extremist and how your average cleric is played up.

Because you're conflating 'religious' with Abrahamic trash and you can't stand your precious yahweh being made a mockery of.

I am an atheist irl, but if I could confirm the existence of a god AND use its powers to smite the shit out of some assholes? Church every Sunday or whatever day.

To add my own two cents, I feel like romantic dynamics between PCs are much less weird when the players are actually in a relationship instead of two straight dudes shipping their D&D characters.

More importantly, one of our players proposed to our GM around this time last year and it was probably the greatest moment of 15 years of playing games to watch. We had a little ceremony in game between their player and one of the NPCs his in-character PC had been courting the next week and everything. I feel like you're really depriving yourself of some great potential moments when you treat the game as a place where real life relationships should never play into things.

The big buy plays I hit it with my sword bro. The guy who might as well be a little girl plays mage girls. The Aussie min-maxed his elf bard that was as elfy as Veeky Forums gets, as in the cat could beat his ass and make him cry and the paladin thought he was a woman, so I guess he actually made a shitpost character. /k/ bro tends to make a gun adept or something similar at every opportunity.

So nope, people I game with are so predictable I could probably make them a character for each session.

>one of our players proposed to our GM around this time last year and it was probably the greatest moment of 15 years of playing games to watch. We had a little ceremony in game between their player and one of the NPCs his in-character PC had been courting the next week and everything.

Am I bitter or cynical for thinking both parts of this sound really obnoxious? Both proposing at game night and having an aside the next week to "celebrate" your engagement sound like really self indulgent things to do that only succeed at cutting into everyone else's time.

>no fun allowed
If everyone is ok wit it, then why not

whatever happened to that book?

it had 1 issue and it just dissappeared

>if everyone is ok wit it

That's the sort of situation where you can't be the dissenting voice, though. user and the happily engaged couple attest to having enjoyed the experience, but there's no honest way of knowing if everyone else at the table enjoyed it. When you're at a table with friends and two of then decide they're getting married and ask you to get excited, there's no way to voice that you would rather not interrupt game week to indulge their desire to play house or have a make-believe fantasy wedding or whatever without coming off as a jackass. Social rules essentially force you to smile and go along with the show or else you're the bad guy.

If anything, it's a very strong argument for NOT bringing spouses or SOs to the table. If it's not the case that one party's been dragged along by the other, then it's almost certainly the case that they're the type that care more about treating it as THEIR night out than the group's night out.

What book?

So do you not know what it's like to actually care about friends? Gaming doesn't have to be some escapist separation from life, generally when people that actually enjoy being with each other a special moment like that isn't a bad thing.

So yeah, you kinda sound like the guy everyone would look at weird and wonder why they let him come over.

The quiet reserved girl is the rape and pillage barbarian.

See
>Gaming doesn't have to be some escapist separation from life
But it should. Making it revolve around things that happen in real life lead to obnoxious self inserts at best, and GMs giving certain players girlfriend/boyfriend privileges and basically ERPing at the table at worst.

>there's no honest way of knowing if everyone else at the table enjoyed it
Look at the player's face and see if it's "I just ate a rotten lemon" face or a honest smile?

>Implying I'm Abrahamic
Um... ok...

One word for you - cancelled

The other link just makes it look worse. If you are that guy you're it sounds like the guy who isn't anyone's friend, but just uses them as a resource to get his gaming done.

>but it should
That's what you want it to be, that doesn't mean it should be. When a big event happens and friends do things together sometimes celebrations happen. Also it doesn't necessarily lead to that, you may have experienced it but it depends on the person. Believe it or not a lot of people are capable of having self-control and a rare, life-changing event like that is the kind of exception that people tend to make when again, they actually give a shit about the people around them. The guy mentioned fifteen years of gaming and a fucking proposal there, do you think it might be kind of a special setting to the people involved in the story you were responding to?

So yeah, you are being cynical. It's like you're looking for a reason to dislike something, which rarely leads anywhere good.

Different user, but holy shit, user, you apparently played with some really, really awful people.

Yes, you're weird.

No, that's wrong.

For some groups, gaming is more than escapist fantasy. I know a group who hangs out at our LGS that used a Changeling: the Lost game to help one of their players get over a rape. I myself have used Shadowrun to explore the idea of how far some of my players are willing to go with morality points they've made in the past. My group's GM has used a one-on-one game to help someone with their acting and improvisation skills so they could do better in a stage production they were taking part in. One of my players used the villain of a game--who killed his in-game father--to deal with the fact that the player himself lost his father to cancer. Hell, my Star Wars group has in-character interaction that spur-of-the-moment happens and takes up a couple of hours of play each night; it's actually quite effective for seeing how our characters grow and feel about things that happen.

And each and every time, the groups agreed to this before-hand. For the acting one, a couple of us who usually played in that group watched, and the guy playing gave his okay because it felt like an audience on stage. The player who used the game to approach his father's cancer didn't purge all of his feelings, but it helped him on the process of moving on. Unfortunately, the Changeling game didn't really help the LGS rape victim, but the fact remains that she thought it might be a good idea.

If you're only using tabletop games for escapist fantasy and the idea of using it for honest-to-god human interaction--or real emotional interaction being something that happens during it--is unappealing to you because it "gets in the way of play," then you're not only missing out, but you're also probably the kind of person who needs to work through a few things.

My fiancee does this. Usually pretty reserved, but she loves playing out-there characters who fight and conquer.

Once we had a new chick in our standard group. Petite and tempered preppy girl that was average to the point of absurdity, but shit, she was fucking SCARY when role-playing a pyromaniac. Shame she just stopped showing up after three months.

>TTRPG is for escapism
>Everything that is not escapism is instantly porn material

> People are enjoying things I don't enjoy
> Don't they know it's the table's game, not theirs...
> And by table I mean not them, just me.

Girl on the right is cuter

>I know that fetish

Wives and SOs before the group gets together are a different story. To put it crassly, they're already confirmed "taken" so no one but the scummiest of players is going to try and bunk that.

It's when a single girl joins a group and the four guys who've been sitting at the table all try and make a move that things get tense.

This however, if I had the choice, I'd rather not deal with mixed parties at the table. Regardless of what people think, a full group of dudes vs mostly dudes and a girl or two is going to have a lot of differences in how everyone acts. Same for a group full of girls that tries to add a dude, things get kind of strange.

I don't think the left was going for "cute".

Me and a buddy of mine usually do. We're both big churchgoer familymen IRL, soon as the tabletop gets going, we turn into the spawn of satan. Our last game I had started a cult, he had acted as its enforcer. Together, we summoned a pitlord, and eventually wound up binding it when it got uppity.

I've heard this said a few times. It doesn't appear to ring true for me (I'm an atheist and I don't typically play religious characters) but I have a few theories as to why it might be the case.

>1
Many atheists come from highly religious backgrounds. As such, they have experience that allows them to know how the highly religious think. Additionally, they may be able to comfortably display the darker side of religious fervor without caring if they offend anyone.

>2
Atheists like to view the world in the way that makes sense to them based on the evidence they see. As such, in a setting where the existence of gods can be objectively proven, where you can speak to gods, where you can sometimes even go to the physical home of the gods, would it not make sense to throw your lot behind that?

>3
I think that people who get into RPGs as a hobby like the opportunity to be something that they are not. Whether it's a full 180 or just a bit different, you can do anything and be anything in an RPG. For an atheist, this would mean being religious in the game.

>4
[snide comment about fedoras and mediocre comparisons between hardcore atheists and hardcore theists]

Bullshit, all girls want to be cute

I wouldn't describe myself as a full-180. I'm more of a chameleon. None of my characters are anything like me, nor are they especially similar to eachother. People often tell me that I have a weirdly huge RP range.