Annoying Motherfuckers

Have you ever been playing a tabletop game with a group you only kinda know, and wind up getting stuck with some asshole you can't stand? Let's share stories and vent a little, I'll start.

>In a basic DnD group, four players and a DM
>This one guy, let's call him Rob, is the most unbearable guy I've ever played with.
>All of our characters are walking down the street of a large town at night, and the DM says that there's a group of shady guys following behind us.
>We all have to roll for perception to see if we notice
>He says he doesn't need to .roll, he's already noticed but chose to ignore it.
>Fast forward, the guys were assassins sent by the BBEG, fight starts
>While three of us are fighting, Rob decides to spend a turn climbing up a nearby building, because he said he doesn't want to actually fight right now.
>His character's not pacifistic or anything, he just 'doesn't want to'.
>After his second turn he's up on the building, and decides he wants to take shots with a crossbow.
>His Dex is like, 8.
>While we all fight and nearly get knocked out, he spends the whole fight trying and failing to shoot bolts at them. Does a total of four damage to one of the thugs,
>Complains that we aren't sharing the spoils of the fight once it's all done.

They're called "That Guy".

Yeah except "That Guy" threads are fun to vent.
>Get invited to a group by a friend who "Needs an experienced player"
>Agree and join the group.
>It's some homebrew furry system
>Everyone is a degenerate, including my friend who's the DM
>This one guy "sexually identifies" as a futa lesbian who hates SJW and gets into an argument with everyone about everything
>I try and do my role as the party tank because everyone else is being a weeblord, man-lesbian shoots me in the head because I disagreed with his flavor of overwatch porn
>Don't go back for session 2

I probably could have swallowed my pride and played because the others weren't very bad, and my friend was a pretty good DM. But fuck. Tumblr is a dark place that corrupts the hearts of men.

Damn, i thought that was just stuff of fairy tales. How does one even identify as a futa when thats a purely physical trait anyways?

I have no idea. It was an online game and for the first hour they refused to use a mic. For a while I thought he was actually a she but then I heard is sweaty neckbeard voice and he said "Oh I'm a futa lesbian"

I don't know what sort of... Logic he came to or what.

Is it wrong that the only thing that disturbs me about this story is how you apparrently died to a single shot to the head while playing a tank?

Fucker should need at least three. I've seen some take more, but they were augmented.

>Start a long-term story campaign. Each player given an individual starting intro.
>One guy doesn't want to play alone and says he wants to start with someone else.
>Picks the paladin on a diplomatic mission to team up with, rolls up a fighter with no charisma
>Doesn't talk ever, bored of dialogue, not interested in any of the plot, only cares about combat and gets mad that the Paladin does the same kind of things in combat as him and sometimes outshines him
>I warned them early on that I didn't want players changing characters mid story but since he has had zero development anyways I let him reroll when the party all meets up and starts working together.
>He makes another sword and board fighter with no personality.
>Calls out the Rogue for not role-playing well when he kills opportunistically
>Continues to sit out puzzles, dialogue, and investigations until combat comes up.
>As we near the final confrontation everyone has a dramatic plot arc to fulfill while he has none, not because he changed character but because he refused to engage with the world in any way
>Tries to roll a new character up in the last two sessions before the final confrontation (a samurai) and I tell him that no, it is too late and there is no way for anyone else to reach the heroes where they are now. They are past the point of no return and I warned him no one would be able to change characters.
>He quits the game.

While ago i started playing Deathwatch with some friends and dudes from flgs

> the DM is a SW waac powergamer with flat "over the top" immagination (both irl and ingame)
> the party is composed by me, Dante, Ash, Sara, Bob and Fry
> Dante is an iron hand techpriest who doesn't give a fuck about chain of command because "he prays the machine god"
> Ash is a DA assault marine who wants be an extreme important asset of the team
> Sara is the main reason i was trying deathwatch as i had a crush on her (so as a good betafag i would follow her interest in the campaign), she plays as a sister of battle with no clue on fluff, just there to try this new experience
> Bob is a whiny powergamer with an orky brain (if it shines i must buy/have it to be important) and he plays as an (orky) blood angels assault marine
> Fry is a deathwatch veteran and he plays as an ultrasmurf apothecary to patch us up
> I choose an imperial fist tactical marine because this is my first deathwatch/DnDish experience ever so i planned to be a "sidekick" in the story by staying there as a shooty support
> since i'm the only tactical marine DM makes me deathwatch sergeant....
> first mission ever
> we land on a planet, some investigation quest, i don't remember
> IG postion nearby under heavy cultist fire
> we rescue them, DM makes an entrance to a strange cultist with some marks
> my team charges mindlessy and then discovering it was a thought nurgle one
> some issue during the fight, we make out
> with the IG there is this imperial knight pilot who needs to get it back from a compound
> DM says with auspex comm that that is the main mission
> we get into the compound, huge room that stores the IK (btw that IK was the latest DM addon )
> we make some noise by approaching the IK, there is a little dark corner in the room
> 30 to 60 cultist spawn from that corner
> are you fucking serious DM
> we beat them withouth strategy, just old shooty choppy option, pilot with Dante get the IK running again

>All of our characters are walking down the street of a large town at night, and the DM says that there's a group of shady guys following behind us.
>We all have to roll for perception to see if we notice

That is shit fucking GM'ing right there

cont...

> after we recover the IK a HUGE ANGRY DAEMON PRINCE appears in this compund
> he drags the IK downstairs, Dante dissconnects from it before it's too late
> other cultist and some chaos SM on us
> same as before, team goes choppy (except for me and fry), we beat them
> repeat this other 2/3 times
> we reach the bottom of the compound, the IK is fighting the daemon prince
> with the help of the emprah and our shooty bolter tactics we force to banish the daemon prince into the warp (?) because of too much punishment i guess (?)
> we come back to the ship, yay, new shiny gear
> i played other 2/3 session because of sara when the plot became so messed up i couldn't stand there anymore and i left

I've never seen such a lackluster "that guy" thread.

I suspect I'm one. Sometimes I'll act like a moron and only realize it several days (or years) afterwards. I started keeping a list of people I owe apologies to.

Being male and female are also purely physical traits, but that doesn't stop them.

>GMing Dark Heresy
>Solid group, except one shithead
>Metagames constantly so he can kill things he can't see
>Tries to be funny with the worst shit ever
>Makes his character always hungry, making annoying off-hand remarks about food
>Then makes his character paranoid, which means he needs to say he looks behind his back every time he describes his actions
>Finally makes his character a pervert, robbing all scenes where a woman is present of any tension or atmosphere
>Everyone else seems to like him for reasons I can't understand
>mfw I will never use his shit pervert gimmick against him with Sororitas cutting him to ribbons after he gropes one of them

Seriously though, his mere existance in the game made running it an absolute chore.
Even worse, he seems to like me.

>Pervert
>In Dark Heresy

You're a shit GM if you can't fuck him over with that. There are a million goddamn ways to fuck over a pervert in Dark Heresy.

Hey, fuck you buddy, I've thrown everything at him. Being a coward and a psycher (and deciding on this bullshit gimmick 7 months into the game) made it quite the chore to not just have him butchered in public. I even managed to gore the fucker once, but then he burned fate and the others gave me some very dirty looks.

And then he ended up in a place with people around that are trained to kill psychers and witches. All I needed was to make him do his shit once more and rid myself from him. No excuses, no chances to "talk it out", just psycher guts.

And then Real Life canceled the game.

>Trips confirm

Well, fuck. Complicit groups to bullshit always irritate me

>He says he doesn't need to .roll, he's already noticed but chose to ignore it.

This is his only real fuckup, to be honest.
I'm getting the impression you're trying to make him seem worse than he actually is just because you dislike him.

>While three of us are fighting, Rob decides to spend a turn climbing up a nearby building, because he said he doesn't want to actually fight right now.

This one for example. Either he said it jokingly and you misunderstood him, or you are misrepresenting him on purpose. He obviously didn't climb up there because he 'didn't feel like fighting', but because he wanted to shoot the assassins from there. Which is pretty smart, shooting people from an elevation.

Also why shouldn't he use his crossbow, if he has one? Because he has 'like 8 Dex'? There are lots of people who overestimate their abilities and his character seems to be one of those people. Doesn't make the player 'bad' or 'annoying', though. Not everyone is a minmaxer, some people play the game for roleplaying purposes, you know?

And did he complain about the loot in charater or as a player? On what grounds did your group even decide to deny him his part? I mean, it's not like he didn't try to help you. Honestly, I just can't imagine the talk in character:
>look, every one of us did 20 dmg on average
>but you did, like, 4
>so no loot 4 you

Was it like this?
So either the PC's in your group are huge assholes, or your group didn't make this decision in character. That's all I'm saying.

That's nice. You just keep the list and do nothing or you big enough to act on it?

Yeah, but if he doesn't fit into the group, he's still That Guy for sucking the fun out of the session. He needs to find a group more tolerant of roleplaying at the expense of the group.

Killing yourself immediately seems like it'd be a good way to set things right.

This is the most feeble contrarianism I've seen on Veeky Forums in a while. It's so bad I'm suspicious it's b8.

Had a GM,who tries to do a spacehulm exploration mission with unnatural geometry and just spent most of the time describing weird shit. Which would have been alright if any of it were actually relevant. But the real frustrating thing was rooms just connecting randomly to other rooms making any kind of exploration a complete chore. And his pet god monster the force chase scenes. Essentially it was just a guided tour with zero player agency to be had. His GMing has not improved. He runs premades but any time he has to improvise he just comes up with wacky and zany shit that makes no sense and just ruins careful plans and any kind of role-playing.

I only put up with him because he Is the only other person in this town that has ever expressed an interest in DMing...

You've probably got this a lot, but why not pick up DMing yourself?

My "that guy" is my own 13-year-old brother. He does the standard stuff, I.E., taking legitimate criticism as a personal insult, raging when things don't go his way, trying to do things his class isn't supposed to do, etc. He's been playing for a year, and he hasn't improved. Recently, he tried to DM a campaign. It's a short story, but if anyone wants to hear it, let me know.

You don't need to ask permission to post on Veeky Forums, give us your story.

In every single motherfucking group I've ever GMed there is ALWAYS this one guy that never read the game we are currently playing, only ever before played game X or Y or N or whatever else, and when things start rolling, he constantly tries to apply rules from the game he knows, often doing things that will be outright suicidal in currently played game or nigh impossible to pull.
And for whatever reason it's always a white male between 17 to 22. Fucking always.

>dick ass thief player brings his son to a session
>he is a dick ass thief as well
>laughs like a retarded mule
>curses in only the way a teenager trying to act cool does
>nuked the bathroom
>dandruff pile on the table near him

That's it Veeky Forums. 17 years in the hobby and I am out. About to send the group a message saying I am no longer running or hosting.

OP here, and it was kind of clear he was being for real. Also his character had never used a crossbow until that point (His character's main weapon is a rapier), and nothing prompted him to do so, nor did it seem like something his character would really prefer doing, so he was basically just fucking around at our expense. Maybe it's just me, but that's pretty shitty.

Also the IC talk was pretty believable, in my opinion. It basically went as such:

>Battle ends, Rob comes down from the building.
>Everyone looks at him with irritation, asking him what the fuck that was all about.
>The group minus Rob grabs the spoils and heads towards their original location.

He's actually a pretty good DM, though it was a weak moment admittedly. He's new to it, but learning and improving pretty quickly. He even likes to do occasional one-shots to kind of practice for the main campaign and improve himself.

Well, the players are me, my parents, and another one of my brothers. We had to create characters in about 5 minutes. luckily, I already had one, the first character I had ever created. So, we had the hapless Human cleric, a Goliath barbarian with a large fullblade (3d8+6 damage per hit, on a level 1 character), a dragonwrought Kobold sorcerer, and a Dwarf cleric. But I digress. His first words as a DM? "Ok, you're in an abandoned city, and you want to explore it. roll a search check." It was then that I noticed he had no campaign notes.

>play ongoing game
>GM lets in new players because "lol why not?"
>New player's character has "a miraculous amount of charisma" who I'll call 0 CHA IRL
>plan is to steal some magic items because "ooh shiny!"
>plan is for a small group to sneak in and grab the stuff
>one sneaky guy picks the lock on the door and the group walks in
>0 CHA IRL walks up to a door, knocks on the door and wakes up the owner at 8PM late at night and they're inside a locked area without permissions
>"So, I hear you have magic items?!"
>MFW 0 CHA fucks up the plan.

By all rights 0 CHA should have been burnt to a crisp by fireballs but the current GM is a suck who lets players get away with damn near anything.

Tell us the damn story.

>Bob is a whiny powergamer with an orky brain (if it shines i must buy/have it to be important)
Sounds more like blood ravens.

So, he was basically making this up as we went along. Red flag. After we search this city and find some MacGuffin of ultimate power, he creates this nonsensical plotline involving rescuing a farmer's daughter, then exploring an undead-littered cave for no reason. My cleric and my brother's Barbarian become absolute fucking bros, we have to run away from several ridiculously over-leveled encounters (the Barbarian carried the cleric under his arm every time. We had quite a few laughs over that), and he gave us an obscene amount of loot. I think it was 10000 GP after the most terrible boss fight I've ever encountered.

We all fall into a hole, no save. At this point I'm seriously holding back the urge to make a "CHOO-CHOO!" noise. And then a skeleton popped out. A whole bunch of them. So, the dwarf undead, like clerics do. "Um, that doesn't work. They're uh...blessed by the dark god" so, we have no choice but to fight. So, I cast Lesser Vigor and Bull's Strength on the Barbarian, and he's dropping spooky scaries left and right. And then a zombie popped out. But this was no ordinary zombie, this was a turn-proof, super-scary high-level zombie! The barbarian drops him with one lucky critical. "You can't have that fullblade anymore!"... And then the session was over. Me and the barb made up bullshit excuses to get our characters out of that campaign before they died. And then my cleric became a kickass NPC in my other brother's campaign. His goal? To find his best friend, a goliath with whom he parted ways 20 years ago.

Fucking hell i would honestly go fully erect if a DM had a start like that!
Our DM has TWICE stared our games with "so you have all lived in this one small town your whole lives, you've never traveled more than a few miles from home"
I get that characters shouldn't have backstories with a few dragonslayings and a couple of princess rescues before level 2 but i basicly wanted him to have been a captured drow elf boy who ended up an adventuring party's camp bitch who mended equipment and watched the horses while the party did cool shit, with the party cleric teaching him that life without spider-demon-gods is both possible and pretty sweet and eventually the other party members, all different races, teaching him little things like aunts and uncles, with the halforc showing him how to make a battle cry and the halfling teaching him songs till now years and years later he's become a paladin and wants to help all races get along and promote good because he's seen evil. He's friendly and outgoing, not letting others provoke him and though his actions trying to show evil is not one's blood but one's choices and brothers...let us choose good!

Then we sit down and he says we're all from bumfuck village and i can play a drow but i don't remember the underdark because "i don't want evil characters"
Motherfucker you never said anything about we all have to be from one town and did you not just LISTEN to me explain he hates evil BECAUSE he's from elf nazi land and has come to see how fucked up it is? That's like saying you can be batman but you don't remember your parents dying.

There's one annoying guy in my group. Not bad enough to be That Guy, because he doesn't disrupt the game, but still just an annoying person.
>constant references and quoting
>gets most of his pop culture knowledge from the Nostalgia Critic, making the references even more annoying
>constantly "humorously" complaining and acting like the GM is screwing him/us over, despite the GM being very nice to us
>refuses to write any backstories for his characters
>constantly brings up politics in a way where it's obvious he gets his political information by unquestioningly browsing imgur

Why would you play with your 13 year old brother? I usually just played with my own age-group friends and my little brother did the same. It's not like we didn't like each other or anything but it's just how things worked.

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>nice quads user

>hey man, pass me the dices and cards

>The Barbarian drops him with one lucky critikal
>critikal
>zombie
>critting a zombie
Bullshit

Also spending 1 turn to do something that does no direct combat damage in a fight does not seem too bad honestly.

The "I don't need to roll" part is pretty dickish tough.

Just reminds me of OUR resident THAT GUY who is your typical White beta cuck.

Best part is, We also have a Black Weeb so we usually get back and forths like

>Tyrone-kun: 'sup mah niggas
>Rest of the group: Yo Nigga
>Cuck: You guys really need to stop calling him that
>Tyrone-kun: Why is that?
>Cuck: Because it's offensive
>Tyrone-kun: I ain't offended
>Cuck: But STILL!

It's really annoying because 9/10 it's Tyrone-Kun starting the "Racist" remarks when really he's just taking the piss out of Ghetto culture.

Hey I got a joke for you first.
What's got no fingers and cries on the floor?
You if you don't wash your hands you clatty bastard

That gm does sound shutty. You're better off without hin

Nothing is worse than a guy that can't handle the banter

I've never played with a Nignog before. But this one sounds cool.

the thing is he's one of two guys who run in our group and the other guy is fucking great. So it's every other week good game and shit.

Which annoys me more because in GoodGM game he's a fucking chosen ranger of the forest goddess with a bow made from a branch of a celestial dryad who he's also fucking and twin scimitars or divine power he drew from an anchent tree like the sword in the stone so he's pretty fucking awesome by this point.

On the other hand i wanted to start a game as... a guy who went to collage (he was a wizard-type with like 19 int) and "eeeh no no you can have read some books but you've never been out of town before"

>Get to join a game at local gameshop
>Roll up a badass Drow Assassin named "Nightshade"
>Pretty cute grill in the group, can't wait to show her my huge sneak attack crits
>Lock eyes with her and scan the table, showing them I have claimed her
>Party is in boring town talking to boring NPCs about party relations
>DM keeps talking
>The Bard player is making the cute grill laugh and smile at his rhymes
>pretty annoyed
>decide to kill the mayor to show I'm the REAL badass
>roll 1 on attack roll
>get arrested
>everyone's laughing at me
>tear my sheet and leave

Fucking bards and their beta players

Eeeh i can admit i sort of do this sometimes but thats only because i went from Pathfinder to 3.5 so i sometimes go "i'm going to use.. oh wait nevermind" or "where is that spell that would be perf- oh wait, i'm a dumbass"

>being reminded the slime of humanity can breed
>Having these literal goblins in your house along with their offshoot CWC offspring

I have deep sympathy for you. But I also have sympathy for the children raised by these oblivious unhygienic dinks that are eternally and internally 14 years old raising these kids with no proper guidance.

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Only kinda related but I'd rather vent here than make a new thread.

My entire group just went through a huge fucking autistic fight with one another that completely shattered probably six friendships over stupid fucking unnecessary bullshit.

My regularly group of six friends who have known eachother for around 8 years and played two different tabletop campaigns every single week are now completely shattered and there is nothing I can do about it.

You should have doused the bard in gasoline and then light the fire by scraping your metal boots against your dice. Otherwise we're revoking your katana.

wanna talk about it user?

>dick ass thief player brings his son to a session
>he is a dick ass thief as well

Had a solid chucklefest

user meant IRL. The player shot him in the head and now he is kill.

That's the worst part though, there really isn't much to talk about

Two of the six got in a huge pointless fight that involved no rational points aside from shit-talking and insults, then they called each other cunts and basically forced the rest to choose a side. Half went with one, half went with the other. Everything is retarded.

Now I have nobody to play games with.

Well? what the fuck were they fighting about?

It means he's straight, but hated watching straight porn because he felt to emasculated by seeing another guy put their dick into a woman. So he stuck with lesbian strapon porn and Futanari hentai, to the point that, in a twist of irony, he became obsessed with a lack of men in sex, and decided to no longer be a man.

>SJW hater.

Yeah, he hit on a lesbian who wasn't interested in having sex with a hairy, mentally disabled Weeb who "identified" as female. He's utterly convinced he can get a lesbian to sleep with him because he identifies as a "Futa lesbo"

To be fair, in the fetlife community, most of the hot women are usually lesbians. The rest tend to be married or land whales.

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>furries
>degenerates
>weren't very bad

this isn't adding up

>All D&D games are 3rd edition

Sounds like your understanding of what constitutes a "friend" or "friendships" is a little limited if this took you by surprise

OL friendships have nowhere near as much standing power and health as traditional ones.
I hear some people manage them well enough, but in my experience OL doesn't count till you take it IRL.

Story time?

Did you try calling him out on his shit?

Kekd. Nice digits by the by

>OL doesn't count till you take it IRL.
Wisdom.

I'm debating if i should at tomorrow's game session, but i don't want to start a shitshow and it is his house we play at.
I'm thinking i'll just point out that he really doesn't see to want me to run the character i'm running if he keeps making changes to it, would you rather i run something else. Sorta beta i know but bad group is better than no group i guess.
I'm fine playing Random McJackass the Uninspired, Druid of Idontgiveafuck grove, but i don't want a character i spent alot of time thinking about and really want to play well gutted

>About to send the group a message saying I am no longer running or hosting.
>dick ass thief player brings his son to a session
So wait you are the host and the gm and he brought someone else to the game? Did he ask first?

>New guy joins our campaign, let's call him Jim
>Makes a 'mercenary with a heart of gold', looks like Guts from Berserk
>Party is looking for a nobleman whose life may be in danger
>They arrive in a tavern, I describe Jim's character as being seated within
>Party finds the nobleman, suddenly assassins pop out, party is getting overwhelmed
>Nobleman shouts that he'll give a full gold sovereign (a very large amount of money) to anyone who comes to his aid
>Jim's character gets up and starts attacking the assassins, missing with every attack. He accomplishes literally nothing, they don't even both attacking him back
>Party eventually scrapes through, assassins are dead or fleeing with smokebombs, nobleman approaches Jim's character and offers his hand in thanks
>Jim declares that he picks up the nobleman by the neck and starts shaking him until he gives him the money
>Nobleman sputters that he obviously doesn't have that much on hand but he'll good to his word and will in fact pay him double tomorrow if he helps the party escort him to his mansion for safety
>Jim reluctantly puts him down and says "Fine, then I'm leaving and I never want to see you ever again."
>The group heads to the manor, party members try to talk to Jim's character but he literally refuses to say anything
>They get attacked by assassins again, this time Jim refuses to help because "I didn't get paid yet."
>The party finally gets him back to the mansion, before they can get in Jim declares that he puts a sword to the nobleman's neck and demands the gold immediately
>Nobleman timidly explains that it's at the bank, hence why he said he'd pay the mercenary tomorrow
>Jim declares that he decapitates the noble. No attack roll, he says he kills him and starts rifling through his pockets
>I tell Jim that's not how it works and assure him he'll get paid
>Jim says "This game sucks, you never let me do what I want and I never get to kill anything" then leaves.
>Nothing of value was lost

looks like Guts from Berserk
Fucking hell I like anime and this throws up red flags for me. It's right up there with "I'll play a chaotic good drow ranger with two weapon fighting" for screaming "i want to be cool and dark and edgy but i want to put ZERO effort into it."

>Go back to town I haven't lived in in 2 years.
>1 friend I kept in touch with, asks me to DM.
>I oblige
>Things go well for a while.
>Eventually we get to a point where the campaign ends.
>Others want to try DM
>Instead of picking 1 person to DM a full campaign, they have each person cycle being DM, continuing where the last one left off.
>This is fucking retarted.
>Near Christmas The guy who was to DM that week decides to do a Christmas special mini campaign.
>No choices or anything just fight after fight, no actual role playing.
>I get bored and decide to screw around on my phone for a while.
>Apparently I am not aloud to have my phone, so they duct tape my phone to a table.
>am bored, start to fuck around instead of taking campaign serious.
>ass hat DM'ing tries to kick me out
>fucking quit instead

>they duct tape my phone to a table

Fucking purge them with fire

Jesus, I had something like that happen in RQ6

>Homebrew Rome campaign
>All players are randies
>On the last legs of the republic right before JC (The other JC, not the one that came at year 1) starts making waves
>Party are political opponents of the senators who by chance get all basically booted to northern Africa to help settling a new city there
>One is a senator who got kicked out, one is a tax dodging merchant and one is a retired praetorian
>And the one I am going to talk about is a former Goth slave who became civilized under the wing of his old owner, becoming his bodyguard
>Basic barbarian type, except he wore his toga as a diaper and his sandals were more akin to disco platform shoes than normal sandals, as he described it
>While settling in and getting to know the other settlers, the locals became restless and raid the defenseless fledgling town
>They whisk away the governor of the region who came there to check the place out because he liked to watch the plebs work away
>Being the only competent people they send the PCs as negotiators and, if push came to shove, violent rescue party as accompanied by some soldiers
>And surprisingly the push came to shove because the Goth kept spitting on people during conversations
>As the soldiers were doing a soft siege on the locals, the party took the sneaky approach and tried to infiltrate the chief's hut to look for the governor
>Managing to get in after minimal neck breaking and eye thumbing (as per performed by the Goth) they get into the tent where the chief and his sons prepare for battle
>The praetorian manages to subdue the son and the Goth managed to cut the head off the snake
>The remaining son gives up as he is now the chieftain by right of succession and surrenders to the soldiers outside
>The governor is thanking the profusely and promising them a luxurious life in the region

>Merchant and senator are ok with this, praetorian just wants to retire and then the Goth
>The Goth being a freed slave can't get into a place of political power wants instead a large chest of gold
>That is the chest being full of money and the chest itself also being made out of gold
>As he put it
>Governor of course says that he is thankful, but that much money isn't something he can just throw around on a whim
>Goth then decides to threaten the governor with a spear from the dead chief
>Merchant and senator are not fighters, so they leg it to the soldiers to inform them about the raging barbarian
>Praetorian tries to fight the Goth, but the latter is way better in HtH combat and wins
>Governor starts to yell for help
>This being RQ6 the Goth gets his spear in easily since the governor is tied up and gets the kill
>Praetorian now goes for the kill when the merchant and the senator come in with the guards
>"The chief killed the governor and he is with them"
>No mercy for a dirty barbarian
>Session ends with the three having to now deal with legal troubles as they are considered the Goth's accomplices
>"Oh man, that was a good session, time to roll a new character. I was thinking an assassin from Carthage who is sent here by the city in order to-"
>I was moving out of my apartment that week so I tell the others and not the last guy
>Tries to contact us, block the number and live life as normal
>See the guy in passing, never recognizes me with my hair cut and neckbeard shaven off

It was a good week to decide to change my life around

Yeah, it would have triggered a red flag for me as well but my group was 75% weebs at the time so I was used to those kinds of characters. Nowadays it's more like 25%.

People like this are the reason for my Han Solo policy. They can play a dirty scoundrel with questionable morals who claims they're only in it for the money, but when the chips are down they'll do the right thing and fight with the 'good guys'. If a player wants to do something exceptionally evil, immoral, or just plain wrong, I ask them whether Han Solo would be comfortable doing this. They usually think better of it.

what is wrong with that d20 in the OP?

Timeworn

No, you have that the wrong way around. No group is better than bad group.

Uh... reading comprehension when? He never said he got killed, just that he got shot in the head and decided not to go back for the next session.

1) There will always be That Guy.
2) You are, have been, or will be That Guy at some point. The nut is knowing which of your preferences are just preferences and not requirements.
I like narrative and immersion. I can be a complete fuckbin about this, and I know it. The closest thing I have to a That Guy in my group is a perfectly nice guy who doesn't read rules and can't get into a character's head worth a damn, but he has fun, and he's polite, and he's not a shithead. And he's getting better with time. AND, with the exception of the rules bit, none of the problems I have with his playstyle bother anybody else.

I played DnD for the first time recently and it went well but there was this one guy who kept bothering me. I played a human beast master. Didn't see anything wrong with this, then I start rolling back ground and get raised by wolves. Still didn't see how this could be bad. Figured I could play it up as an old woodsman. Spend the rest of the campaign getting called a dog fucker but the female dragon born who is just a weeb wanting to role play if Natsu was a girl.

A friend of mine completely mulliganed his character for a Guts knock-off after watching Berserk. At one point they needed to find a friend who left the group. Before leaving the guy pissed off quite a few townsfolk, and among them a tracker agreed to help find him if in exchange he got to rough him up a bit.
Well theu finally find the guy and the tracker talks about how he's gonna beat the asshat friend down. Guts decides now's the time to kill the tracker and loot his corpse.
Guts was neutral good. the friend was evil and had nearly killed several people before fleeing.
Never go shopping hungry, never post on Veeky Forums horny, and absolutely NEVER play tabletops after marathoning anime.

>Only game I've ever played was with a group that were friends of a friend. 6 of us in total including DM.
>I'd heard utility characters are helpful so I make what's basically a charismatic bard that's specced into speech but could hit shit in a fight
>DM's brother played and would disrupt everything I tried to do
>Whenever I'd try to talk down bandit's he'd just attack them mid sentence
>We did a quest that would have given 250 gold but I secretly was able to fool them into thinking it was a bigger threat then it actually was, giving us like 400 gold
>Gave everyone 75 but kept 100 for myself, which me and the rest thought was fair, and he made a big deal about it out of character
>Our characters in game would be at an impasse, I tried to roll to persuade him and he just screamed out of character that he wouldn't let me.
>He used meta game knowledge IC and threatened to report my character to the guard for misguiding the people
>Lots of other similar shit
>DM would side with him on everything
>He and the DM eventually had forced me into converting my character into an archer

How are online tabletop groups?

You should call him out on his shit without being offensive about it. You could say something to the effect of
>Hey man, I feel I can't really get involved in the game. I think that my character is a little too bland, you know? Just for the record, I don't want to play too crazy, over-the-top characters either, I would like for my character to have a good amount of spice to them and I feel like the rules you're asking me to follow are stifling my immersion and enjoyment of the game. I feel like we can find a good middle ground, so I would like to ask you to give me one chance to prove that my character would be a good addition to the group and enjoyable for everyone.

You should've told her to stop projecting her disgusting fantasies onto you.

>online tabletop groups
Flaky as hell. For D&D at least. You're better off trying to find a game that is not D&D.

It was a he

My point still stands.

>between 17 to 22
That's your problem right there, man. Even most people who end up decent are intolerable shitheads until their mid to late twenties. Play with grown ups.

>Whenever I'd try to talk down bandit's he'd just attack them mid sentence
I really hate that shit.

I remember a game once where we got waylaid by a dragon who demanded we pay a toll, and I negotiated with this dragon to trick him into letting us pass in exchange for little worthless trinkets. In a campaign that lasted nearly two years, with a GM who HATED players using social skills, it was one of the only times I ever got to do anything of value to the party. And the fucking barbarian just decided halfway through to attack the dragon out of nowhere.

It is seriously such a dickbag thing to do. Even in a roleplay heavy game, usually 50% or more of the time is spent in combat. Most games it's a lot more than that. In a lot of systems, if you build a character for social interactions, you inevitably are inferior, even useless, in combat, and so end up spending most of the game doing nothing you are interested in or good at. When you actually get the chance to roleplay and some selfish asshole is so unable to let you have your chance to do something that they cut your legs out from under you, it is just the most frustrating shit imaginable. It shows a complete lack of awareness of other people's perspective, and a total disrespect for the people you play with.

I myself was an asshat recently.
>friend is DMing a high fantasy game
>I played as a fire genasi inquisitor
>a character I've played before in a few games and have as a major NPC in my own
>she's pretty much a mix between a 40k retributor and Chandra
>party enters a town
>seems to be abandoned
>hear spooky cackling and claws on stone
>sounds coming from everywhere
>I start throwing fire everywhere
>building after building set ablaze
>I go into a crazed zealous state having detected evil all over the place
>weave a great inferno in about have the town
>still nothing seems to be dying, still taunting the party
>at this point, we can come to the conclusion either the baddies are immune to fire
>or there was magic involved as I thought there was
>keep torching things, rest of party starts choking on smoke
>end up having to flee the town
>reluctantly follow everyone keeping them safe
>DM says I ruined an entire encounter
>he was putting us up against demons at level 2
>we missed out on loot

I made mistakes, but at least the DM agreed I was playing my character properly. He understands she's a bit crazy and has a temper problem.

And she also really loves fire and purging evil with it.

>Daemon prince dragging down an imperial fucking knight.

How the hell did he even get there? It's so ridiculously expensive to summon a daemon prince. Much less get it to do anything as important as that.

>An inqusitor flipping out at the first sight of daemons.
>Ever a problem.
user you're fine.

gonna try this, I mean i'm not asking for anything mechanical, he's starting with basic package plus..... a ring. Not a magic ring or a special one, just a band of polished steel that was once his first "cut" of the loot from the party that raised him that he drums on his sword sheath to help him think

Rouge: Man what a haul lets split this up four ways
Cleric: Five
Rouge: Huh? there's four of- *cleric points to drow boy* what? You're kidding he stood outside the whole time
Cleric: guarding the camp and watching the horses, also he's been doing quite a bit of the less glorious but nessicary work, he deserves something.
Rouge: Tch... fine um here *tosses some plain ring that no one wanted anyway* he can have that.

I mean i just think that even level one heroes should be interesting people, you don't become a paladin because "eh why not" nor do you become a rouge just for shiggles.
Something i think alot of DMs and even players make the mistake is they forget that normal people exist. That guy might only be a level 1 ranger but to most people in-world he's fucking rambo, Father Mulcahy the small town priest isn't a level 1 cleric with two spells per day, and every orphan pickpocket doesn't rouge levels.
Sure level 5 isn't a big deal but to random people you're like the fucking Avengers just walked in the bar

Normalfag who think he is some kind of pro gamer and good at everything