That one guy in your group who

Considering user posted an example pic of clearly anime-styled art, it's not a huge logic leap to assume he was referring to people who present clearly-anime-styled art for their characters.

>That one guy who runs his character concept past the DM even when it's all PHB content, just to make sure it's alright.

>That one guy who runs books worth of his own homebrew content by the DM and the puts it on his character sheet even after being told no.

That's based entirely on implication and it still makes it a logical lapse. By logic of that bulletpoint, anyone who ever played as a busty female or underage little girl is automatically a weeaboo, just because.

Kinda-sorta pic related

>that one guy who tried to apply real world physics/mechanics in a setting full of dragons and magic

The point was there are bearable weeaboos and faggot weeabos, you fucking grognard.

>That one guy who parrots "have you tried not playing DnD" instead of actually contributing anything meaningful to a discussion. (Bonus points if the system being discussed isn't even DnD).

>That one guy who plays a caster and knows exactly what all his spells do without having to look them up every single turn.

found the weeaboo pedophile in denial

>That one guy who assumes if it's fantasy, then laws of physics and basic logic no longer apply

>That one guy who memorised entire book content, but doesn't try to rule-laywer anything and just works as a living calculator for complex rolls

the evil version of this
>that one guy who autistically memorized the rule book word for word and constantly tries to exploit loopholes and turns everything into a 20 minute rules debate

> That one guy who makes what looks like a one shot joke character but plays him to have surprising depth

> That one American who keeps bringing up American politics despite no-one caring

That's why I've posted the rare, good version of this shit. The evil counterpart is so common it's not even worth mentioning

You forget the worst version
>Schrodinger's Rulemaster, that one guy who's autistically memorized the book when the DM makes a mistake that might make him less OP, but will suddenly not have read a section when he thinks he can get away with cheating.

Some asshole in my group does this all the time. When it's time to fight something, he knows the complete stats and abilities of all the monsters he's facing, even if he's never seen them in-character, and will argue with the DM if he changes these stats in any way to balance the encounter. But if he thinks the DM isn't paying attention, he'll try and do shit like move twice his speed as a bonus without having the prerequisite abilities, and claim ignorance if he's called on it.

That's just standard rule-lawyering

>That one guy who never read the book, so everyone has to count for him and tell him what to roll in the first place
Never had this problem with female players, for whatever reason. I've got roughtly one guy like that in each new group.

This is much worse than this

I feel like a female player who really wants to play is used to/expecting judgement so much they feel like they have to know the rules by heart or else get called out.

I've once run games for Biology students and a nurse.
Still have a fuckload of notes based on all the points they've made, as it in turn made a lot of non-human races twice as interesting with their imput.

>That one guy in the group who keeps the peace just by being a nice guy

>That one guy in the group who uses playing a silent character to not pay attention at all

>That guy who picks persuasion-related skills, while being a silent type and always ending up forced by rest of the group to do the talking

Got this in a group two years ago. Thing is - he did this on purpose, as a practice to get over own shyness.

ITT: People who have never heard of This Guy.

>that one guy who never actually roleplays (beyond the level of "I ask the guy for more information" anyway) and whose every action in every combat is simply walking up to the nearest enemy and hitting them, and then blames the dice when things don't work out
>but he's also that one guy in the group who's always on time, always in a good mood, always brings snacks for everyone, and never misses a session

What's a GM to do?

>that one guy who always plays the most overpowered internet lauded no-fun-for-anyone-but-me shit and still gets wrecked, blaming everything from the dice to the ruleset

>that one guy who plays what is widely regarded as subpar and underpowered, or makes decisions based on fluff or aesthetics over rules but still ends up winning most of the time

>the one guy in a party who can actually make decisions and move the story forward

Maybe you didn't notice, but this thread is NOT made with This Guy in mind, nor That Guy. It's a joyful mix of both and a bit of off-wagon seasoning

>That one guy who is pretty normal but has a real life -5 to diplomacy which makes for some hilarious IC moment.
>Says shit like "You're the oldest adventurer I've ever seen. You must be so experienced" to the enjoyment of the table.
>Uses message to try and contact a dude in a cloak a distance away. When the dude starts backing away from the weird whispers he says in a soft tone "Please, don't leave us".
>Character is supposed to have +15 to diplomacy.

Communication, literally send him a screencap of this, hell take him to lunch and lay it out straight for him, sounds like a cool dude, just doesn't fully know how to RP

>That one guy who plays orks just for the fun of it, bases his army off of themes and lore and still wins games because he's an amazing player and knows his army

...

Keep him and be grateful he's enjoying your game. As long as the rest of the group does the in-game job in which he's lacking, everyone is fine.

It's not like he doesn't know. I've brought it up before and then he makes an extra effort for half a game, but next game he's just back to his normal mode.

Yeah it's not like he's disruptive or anything so that's fine, but to me it kinda comes across like he doesn't care about the game.

Does he have aspergers?

I don't believe so. He can read body language (as far as I can tell) and can get social cues. I'm just thinking he's socially awkward.

To be full-power autismal, recent research has suggested that Asperger's sufferers actually have such a hard time dealing with people because they're too receptive to body language and social cues.
They're quick to see rejection or acceptance when they aren't there, read too deeply into people's actions and have a hard time realizing that not everything has to have a hidden meaning, and coupled with social anxiety, that turns into the archetypal sperg.

People can be socially awkward without having psychological issues.

As much as I want to agree, psychological issues are defined solely by where society draws the line for "normal behavior".
If the consensus is that he doesn't interact well with other people, and he on top of that matches a few other traits connected with Asperger's, he has Asperger's because that's what the official diagnosis would say.
Mental illnesses are culturally dependent, with fuzzy and varied symptoms, and can rarely firmly be diagnosed with zero margin of error (nor can they be completely discounted) - all of those are perfect for people who want to malinger without having to fake a real illness.
What's caused the berserk mental-"illness" epidemic we have now is that people are taking advantage of the fuzzy definition of many personality disorders and x-spectrum disorders to diagnose themselves, matching their behavior to the symptoms in order to not have to try to be a normal human being.

I sense a weeaboo in denial.

>he doesn't interact well with other people
He does interact well with people. He just doesn't interact well with imaginary people.

Without biting too hard on the bait, how does playing mostly attractive female characters and little girls equate to being a weeaboo?
It's not like they're a uniquely Japanese invention, and practically every single mainstream Western movie ever released has an attractive woman in the cast.
There is a tendency among weeaboos towards playing those characters, but that's easily accounted for by the prevalence of anime where these types of characters are the main characters - and unsurprisingly, people who watch only Western-styled things are likely to play different characters because the men are the ones doing the cool shit.

>That guy who invariably makes dumb, mute or foreign characters in a barbarian or similar heavy hitter class and is just content being the party mascot.

>That gal who makes a good character, has backstory for both her charcater and number 4's and eventually gets bored so she retires it.

>That guy who says he's okay playing both genders but only ever plays his and you remember he did crossplay at that one convention and never went to a con after that even though he loves cons.

>That guy whose chargen is always "let's pick the setting's power class and tie my backstory to someone else's" yet always makes his character memorable

>that gal who still makes a specialist pilot/engineer despite the GM's homebrew system being rule light high mortality and his campaigns always being "normal people have a very bad day and become murderhobos as the franchise we're supposed to be playing in becomes mad max over the course of three sessions"

>that one guy that you get along well with OOC and have some fantastic moments in-game with, even if they aren't a heavy roleplayer

I miss them.

>that one guy that you get along with well enough OOC, but IC he's always bordering on the annoying at best and tends to play the same sort of frustratingly ignorant wizard

I wish I had an excuse not to be friends with him.

>I'm not a weeaboo guys i swear
>look buddy hebephilla is different than pedophila....
>theres nothing wrong with liking loli
>asian girls are just a lot cuter than white ones
>did you guys know that the age of consent in japan is 14 isn't that uhh interesting?
Veeky Forums is a white christian image board you fucking degenerates. Go back to /a/ or /jp/ with this shit. Better yet, go to a bridge and jump off.

I mean, age of consent is 15 in France. America is just being prude and ruining lives with statutory rape.

>heh there's nothing wrong with fucking 12 year olds if you're 30
>girls start puberty earlier than boys do
>but she consented
fuck off you pedo creep

>12 is 15
>15 yo can't give consent
>I am a pedo creep
no, there are plenty of laws to prevent abuse. The onlder companion can't have power over the younger (that includes teachers, next of kins, and pretty much everybody in position to ruin their lives) and the younger person can't leave for their companion's domicile without their parent's accord.
It's a system that works and is rarely abused. Whenever cases of actual pedophilia pop up they're not abiding by the rules at all.
Meanwhile in the US, people can go to jail for fucking someone with two years of difference and it's a common issue.

People who bring what seems like a joke character to the table always make me nervous. Sure, sometimes it's good to bring a simple, entertaining concept to the table and allow it to grow over the course of the campaign, and the comedic undertones can add some great contrast that keep a character from becoming too serious, or not having any flaws...but sometimes they remain a stupid joke forever, and even if they become an actual character never get any depth or growth, and there's no real reason to interact with them.

I am a no-fun faggot, and whatever "witty" idea someone makes I will almost never enjoy, or I have seen it before in a dozen of different ways that weren't funny either. Sometimes I wish people would stop trying to be funny from the get-go and would instead have it more in the background.

I thought the big thing for mental disorders and psychological issues is that they were interfering with living a healthy, normal life. Someone can be a sociopath and not even be fully aware of it, and never need to have it diagnosed because they're living life in a healthy manner.

Besides, I'm pretty sure a psychologist would do more than get a consensus on how he acts around others before making a diagnosis. 'Not interacting well with other people' could probably point to other problems - maybe he has OCD, and he's not interacting well with other people because they aren't aware of this and are aggravating his compulsions. And you need an official diagnosis before you're slapped with a label - three guys on the internet saying I'm probably depressed, or even my own self-judgement, does not mean I have depression.

Here's your (You). I'd ask why you're posting this on an anime image board, but everyone already knows the reason.

>reading too much in to everything
In that case I'm autistic af

>That one guy who´s always getting the games going, and when people lack interest and play mobile fucking Facebook games, he still has his moods up trying to keep the spirit up!

>That one guy, who is super exited to play, but one drawback, one bad roll or setback, and he´s flicking his phone, talking about sports or whatnot. Basically ruining it for everyone...

Ah, another fine comic from Ben "Pull out my nine in the welfare line" Garrison

>That one guy who is a master at derailing the campaign/plot but does it in such a brilliant and unexpected way that it's actually a joy to work with.

Campaigns go from good to great when you have to come up with some bullshit on the fly and run with it for the rest of the game.

>That one guy whose characters are all the same "wisecracking" or cynical loner type despite class, backstory or even input from the rest of the party.

>That one guy who always brings over snacks and drinks

>That one guy who invites a black person to a game that's being played at the DM's house without asking first.

>American daytime hour
>Thread turn into shitposting about weebs

>that 1 guy in your group that systematically changes his entire army over the course of 2-3 weeks to the latest tournament win

I am that one guy in the group who will
>Use slightly weaboo art
>Create a character under the slight influence of my fetishes (such as lustful, wrathful barbarians or twink wizards with average/below average strenght)
>Create a wholly unsuspicious background for said character
>Optimize the stats bordering on powergaming
>Try and nudge the GM's fetishes bit by bit while I get to know the group

So far, I haven't been asked to stop... nor was I confronted by upset people, which only makes me bolder each time.

>that GM who makes hard but rewarding challenges and cheers along when you make it

>that GM who never puts any challenge in his games and always robs any victory you have with complete asspulls

>that one guy who plays cleric and only casts inflict wounds

The best fun comes from unexpected things, and it's a game based on dice so there's plenty of times where the DM can make something funny happen from a critical failure or a natural 20. But trying to force humour is really annoying.

If someone says they're playing a bard or something, usually red flag.

>that one guy that never writes a back story, however does a good job of writing one that actually fits with the dms current campaign setting once he learns about it.

>That one guy who cooks for everyone.

It's great because because having a homecooked meal while you game is awesome, and he themes it based on what we're running.
>Pathfinder: Tavern beef stew with vegetables

>Shadowrun: Miso Ramen with boiled eggs, bean sprouts and "Krill patties" (narutomaki fish cakes).

However this sometimes distracts from the game. Seriously, this guy's cooking is so rich it will put you in a food coma, and just about all of us has food stains on our character sheets.

>That one guy who is a master at derailing the campaign/plot but does it in such a brilliant and unexpected way that it's actually a joy to work with.

Two of my players are like that, they drive me nuts easily but in the end i have lots of fun working with what they want to do.

Had a guy like that GMing. We were playing Deadlands with him. Hence every meal was the same - beans, coffee and brown bread. Then a shot of whiskey on the end of session. Repetitive, but put the right vibe on his games
No, they weren't repetitive, it was about the setting itself. He was master of mixing blandness and normal with all the crazy shit that goes in Deadlands

I know this isn't a thread about GMs necessarily, but

>That GM that forces us, in a game of Deathwatch, to fight through a group of cultists with laspistols.

This was frustrating because for reasons, my Space Marine was the only one fighting in the room at the time. And the group of cultists weren't large enough for combat to be resolved in a vague group fight. And only one of them had a weapon that might do damage to me - a flamer - while the others had laspistols.

It was an utterly boring fight after I took out the man with the flamer, since none of them could possibly do any damage to me unless they got an amazing roll, because of power armor and Space Marine stats. Then I just had to run around the room, killing cultists with a chainsword or bolter one at a time while they kept frustratingly refusing to die, dragging out each individual fight while I had absolutely no risk of being harmed.

>That one guy who's a fantastic roleplayer, adapts well to situations, has full on character arcs and fun dynamics

>That same guy who refuses to learn mechanics more complicated than roll to hit.

He's wonderful to have around but if he plays a spellcaster we almost have to assign someone else to handle his spells for him.

This is problem... how?

I had a Deathwatch game that lasted about five weeks.

The first two sessions were spent on character creation because the GM wouldn't give us the books beforehand.

The remaining three sessions were spent with us fighting Orkz, not Orkz as in a neverending tide of Orkz or anything, just the same fucking group of fucking Orkz who refused to die yet had no chance of killing us because of our stats.

So in roughly 20 hours, we'd only gone through character creation and two fights.

I wish I was joking.

>That guy who hosts every game night and makes sure his house is clean and neat and the table is wiped down.
It's a blessing to have him doing it every week before we get there.

>That guy who had a falling out with one of the people at the table and is always trying to outdo them at every turn in the game.
Literally the worst. I think he's also getting pissy at me because half the shit he wants to do is either not able to be done with his remaining turn and I have to point it out, or is outright impossible for his character and I have to point it out. I'm not even the GM and I know his character sheet better than both him and the GM. Fuck.

You'd think the game where you can finally powertrip and be able to take on the huge scary shit that would drive you away in the other 40k RPGs would be more fun.

He's both the positive and negative.
Positive (which outweighs) is he's fantastic.

Negative is he brings combat down to a hard stop whenever it's his turn.

power-tripping is only rewarding once you've suffered through the grind and reached the top on your own merits.

It might be fun if you've actually played some of the other RPGs, but as a first? Nah.

I had a friend who saw my interest in the game and wanted to join in, but he knew nothing about 40k. He hated that he had no option other than a vaguely militaristic male character for Deathwatch, and he didn't know enough lore to enjoy sticking around.

The thing is, we were in a Rogue Trader campaign that last about 2 sessions before the same GM pulled the plug and made it a deathwatch campaign.

The icing on the cake was how he claimed he did because he "wanted to make us feel stronger."

But I feel like the entire point is to not go up against Orkz and other normal shit - take on the huge stuff that before you would have had no chance against. It's not making you stronger, it's changing the level of the playing field while still keeping that challenge.

I understand that, even when I knew almost nothing about 40k, I could still see that orkz were meant to be the goombas that you stomp before moving onto the big shit like necrons, deamons, and chaos space marines.

It was honestly a disgrace the whole way through, I'd still probably give it another shot if the GM actually gave me the .pdfs and knew what he was doing but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

>...the rules lawyer who is helpful when we need a rules clarification, and never interrupts or makes a big deal out of it. He knows the rules inside and out and has all of the pages laminated and in a 3 ring binder with his character sheets.
(not even kidding)

>...the guy who always brings Oreos, and then plops them into the middle of hte goddamned battlemat on top of the map I was about to use, and which I use every session.

Can we get some details here?
My fetish is written smut

>>That guy who hosts every game night and makes sure his house is clean and neat and the table is wiped down.
Please tell me you are kidding by considering this special in any way

My main point is that he does this every week and ensures the place is spotless for our game. He doesn't have to host, we have other houses, but he volunteers his place every week and makes sure everything is in order for us to just sit down and play, without having to do anything beforehand.

I can guarantee you that some hosts just dump what's on the table somewhere else and gives the table a brush and that's it. Actually playing on a cleaned table in a nice, tidy room with no outside issues is really overlooked and something you should thank your host for if they go out of their way to wash the tabletop and tidy the room for you.

TL;DR it's polite and not often noticed

>That GM who let me play a guardsman in deathwatch and became an inquisitor of the Ordos Astartes.

>That player who some how got a +60 on a repairing a sniper by describing almost entire manual for a hunting rifle. (I can't which one)

Fuck me the last one was hilarious. He legit memorized the entire manual.

>That one guy in your group who sneaks cones in the car park and thinks you don't notice

>That one guy in your group who plays a female character just to describe how sexy she is and thinks you don't notice

>That one guy who gets loud every time there's talk of torture and thinks you don't notice

All the same guy somehow.

Reward the group with inspiration dice and loot for solving things using roleplaying.

>be me
>play wood elf rogue assassin
>didnt know it was powergaming
>roll a 17, ask dm if its okay to use as my dex score
>he agrees
>lvl 4 i have 20 dex, sweet
>most of my bow shots fail
>my rapier barely hits
>Throw holy water at a vampire
>crit and dm counts it as a sneak attack
>kill the fucker because he was low on hp
>level up to 6
>13 cha? I need some social skills
>select deception and investigation as my mastery skill for 6th level
>get back to town and tell the lord that i've learned a lot about trade and am a mathematical prodigy, my reward should be being made town treasurer
>nat 20 the deception roll
>he gives me the position without flinching for my undying support and clear expertise in all things money

The only thing my accidentally combat optimised rogue has done is to throw holy water and bluff the shit out of people.

... so you are claiming not living in a pigsty is an achievement.
Congratulations for hitting new low of low standards

>That guy who uses fun, creative ideas that engage me as a GM to make up for his character's lackluster areas stat-wise
>That guy who's not super original or creative, but puts his heart into the characters he makes, so they don't actually feel dull or cliche
>That guy who learned everything he knows about GMing from greentext on Veeky Forums, and tries so hard to be anti-cliche that it gets predictable and obnoxious
>That guy who physically cannot stop paladining
>That guy who refuses to GM, but backseat GM's constantly when he plays
>That guy who complains that the games go too slow, but plays only brooding edgelords with zero drive to interact with the world.
>That guy who actually read the whole setting section of the book, front to back, and is willing to answer any questions that come up without being a dick
>That guy who actually read the whole setting section of the book, front to back, and is willing to answer any questions that come up without being a dick
Why are these two never the same person?
>The guy who tries not to be a muchnkin but ends up with a horribly optimized monstrosity of a character.
>The guy who feels the need to point out that he has different political beliefs than the rest of the players every possible opportunity.
>The new guy who you want to like but something about him irritates you.
>The old player everyone but you disliked.
>The GM that has to stop every 20 min to get more coffee for some reason
>That guy who slips references to his favorite series into every character he makes, but just little ones, like names of spells and shit
>The guy whose sole redeeming trait as a GM is that he makes top-tier waifu characters.
>The drunk Russian
>The one who submits all his character sheets in the form of Excel documents with the margins full of calculations.

>That guy who actually read the whole setting section of the book, front to back, and is willing to answer any questions that come up without being a dick
*combat, fuck me, its late and I can't type.

Not him, but mate, if the guy is getting you all to his place, then it's not only normal, but fucking expected it will be clean.
You know, host and guests, right?

If you two are the air of civility don't rag on him for complimenting hospitality.

I never gamed so I can't contribute. How to seek and insert oneself into a group?

It kinda is a thing to rag, simply because what kind of "standard" he is living under to consider such obvious thing like keeping own home clean, especially when having guests, as something special.

And answering your question, fill the following:
1) What kind of game would you like playing the most (fantasy, sci-fi, stuff like that)?
2) Are you familiar with any tabletop game at all, or are you completely green?
3) Is there a game shop nearby your area, or a youth center?
4) Do you live in a rural or urban area (makes a fuck-huge difference)
5) Is your country in any way "English"? (I know how stupid this one sounds, but term "Anglo-Saxon" doesn't solve shit outside England proper and USA)

>that one guy that actually plays LN well

>that one guy's wife who plays TN well

>that other one guy who plays CN well

>this guy who loves them

I don't know if I just got lucky af, or if my group is just seriously dedicated to subverting tropes. Either way, I'm happy with it.

Man, that sounds like a fucking blast. I can just imagine the interesting conversations after defeating a group of creatures they've never seen, then debating over the bodies on how they would classify them and theorizing their natural habitats, evolutionary paths, organ structures, and biological makeup while only half paying attention to the loot they are picking up.

Pretty sure Japan's AOC was 13, actually. I mean, wut? yeah. totally interesting.

... what loot?