Why is >male human fighter a meme? Genuinely asking, because a thing I enjoy roleplaying out is a guy who looks very common but has to find his own distinction in the world, he can be another run-of-the-mill Human Fighter, but, to put it in meta-speak, not every Human Fighter gets to become epic, solve a campaign and have his happy ending. And every person has their own quirks and character.
Is it down to the relative mechanical boredom of most fighter archetypes or does it just strike you as a character chosen by people with no imagination?
Basically a bunch of ''tollerant'' people hating something that's common standard.
Nathan Clark
Basically people attempting to subvert the "everyone plays a special snowflake" meme became so common that they in turn became a meme
Ryan Rogers
The male human fighter (when regarded as a trend) is deliberate counter piece to super special snowflakes. A more normal grounded believable character is often seen as more mature and better roleplaying. Then of course, as is often the case some people overshoot and turn right to a philosophy of only playing the blandest characters and calling everything unique or remarkable a mary sue.
It is basically the anti-sue counterpiece to half demon angels or whatever.
Ethan Lee
Come on, at least try to get it right
>male human fighter with brown hair who uses a sword
I think there's also supposed to be something in there about all-brown clothing.
Joshua Walker
>Those numbers >All-brown clothing Sure. Like we don't know you're shitposting here, Adi.
Tyler Gutierrez
>Is it down to the relative mechanical boredom of most fighter archetypes or does it just strike you as a character chosen by people with no imagination? Pretty much this.
There are exceptions of course. I'm sure some people roleplay male human fighters with idiosyncracies but I honestly wonder why, given the plethora of options in today's RPGs, you would choose to play the most mundane character available.
I would play a human fighter in a low magic or pseudo realistic setting. If the system makes a distinction between the swashbuckler who fights with finesse and the dumb brute who smashes things with a club I might consider playing one, but if given the option I'd probably rather play a spellcaster or a shapeshifter or a vampire or whatever.
Different strokes.
Ryan Fisher
There is nothing wrong with a male human fighter in any setting/edition.
Adrian Collins
If you have to rely on "what" the character is, instead of "who" they are, then its a bad character.
Bad players will be these half-drow, half-dragon wizard-ranger-paladins with a derpy tragic backstory where his family was killed, and thus they are perpetually angry and/or melancholy.
Good players will have a setting-appropriate character with amazing depth.
