'That Guy' thread

Oh she is. The other 2 girls at the table are made uncomfortable by her sexual jokes. Thankfully she's making less as i make her character gets shoved to the side.

At least she isn't carrying SJW into the game. That stuff demolishes friendships

Oh man one player in our shadow run game so obnoxious.
Made the standard one punch man adept build, yet complained when we were fighting enemies with guns.
Characters personality was completely inconsistent like a hamster with ADHD
Would threaten to kill other characters out of character if they interrupted there powerfantasy in any way.
Engaged in cannibalism because they read about blood magic and wanted to hood wink the GM to give them things only ENEMIES are supposed to have.
Would randomly murder civilians during investigations.
Was kicked out of game cause everyone got sick and tired of it.

Right on. Dealing with this is a little easier, but not when I talk to my roommates and one laughs/make crude jokes with her at the table. Fucking annoying. Haven't told her directly but i hope I can brush past her 'tism

Holy fuck I don't know where to begin. Glad you kicked him.

A guy who's in my buddy's group is a newbie, but argues with DM, pulls up the wiki and tells her she's wrong all the time cause he already knows how the story goes in their pre-written campaign thanks to his fuckin podcast

That level of metagaming means you might as well not even be playing

Please tell me someone told him to fuck off with that shit

>join first shadowrun game
>dm helps be build a sub-optimal but cool character
>join team
>everyone is super specialized and good at one thing
>mage is better at magic than me
>decker has more charisma than me
samurai could one shot anything throw at him
>Decker is that guy
>team leader
>everything had to go his way
>samurai is his irl friend, mage his gf
>they of course go along with every "super smart" plan he makes
>the problem
>plans are over complicated
>take i shit you not 2+ hourse to plan
>we ignore these plans 99% of the time when either samurai or Decker go full retard
other shit decker did
>try to screw new guy who joined us out of his cut of pay for no reason but "he showed up after we were hired"
>steals data from missions and refuses to share (even though i had to iviso escort him for whole mission)
>tries to roll to persuade my character to go along with a stupid plan that was STRONGLY against what i built my characters personality around (with his 12+ fucking dice and advantages)
>tried to deck into our riggers drones and pilot them because he thought he would be better at it
>always left 2 hours early with his gf and cut every game short
>great dm but he kinda ruined the game for me

What was the character? Some kind of mage?

shaman with emphasis on stealth and support spells like invisibility and levitate
i was a jack of all trade character who just ended up being shit at everything but turning myself and other invisible and floating

i just got into a roll20 game and holy shit i never realized i was in that guy hell in local games for the longest time

>had 4e games where the entire party ambushed one of their own and proceeded to piss and shit in the bag where they threw him in.
>had a barbarian who was so intent of drinking a potion of "mystery fluid" that we were almost positive was poison that we had to chain him down to the ground in order to stop him from drinking it
>had that one guy who literally played a dark elf ranger named "drizzt" and ended up sleeping half of the time
>the one DM who basically took over another DM's campaign and suddenly forced us to abandon all connection to our old setting just to teleport us to his own in a really forced way that involved an impossible, unavoidable encounter
>that one guy that always played a goblin rogue and made us constantly question his motives as he constant stole from us and hindered us in some encounters purposely
>that one guy who played a human barbarian named "big dick daddy with the candy cane nutsack" who killed his whole tribe except the women whom he raped

there's a lot more but that's all i can think of off the top of my head

Jacks are my favorite kind of character, though you probably should have checked with the rest of the group to see where they were going with their characters

>big dick daddy with the candy cane nutsack
What kind of subhuman do you have to be to even think of that as an option?

a guy who sells pot, steals from other people, and does hard drugs occasionally

yeah if i had known i would have tried to min max harder instead of roleplay
there really werent any holes in the group to fill since they had everything covered

Nice. Hopefully that guy won't be back.

>was so intent of drinking a potion of "mystery fluid" that we were almost positive was poison that we had to chain him down to the ground
>suddenly forced us to abandon all connection to our old setting just to teleport us to his own
>"big dick daddy with the candy cane nutsack"
Holy fuck.

Tim is the best friend of the DM, so hopefully he will have some sense talked into him, as I am also friends with the DM and don't want to cause him pain

>big dick daddy with the candy cane nutsack
in what way was his nutsack 'candy cane'-esque?

Your GM is an idiot. You can trade off between Parry/Dodge and Toughness, and between Attack and Effect, but you can't trade off between Attack and Defense.

that will be a mystery until the end of time

>had a DM who threw a CR 13 enemy at a party of five level 3 characters
>one of which was an artificer who had no idea what his features did
>the other an edgy sorcerer "pyromancer" who just burned shit the whole time
>cr 13 creature happens to heal from fire damage
>pyro ignores this
>dm instakills like two of us and deus ex machina's us back into life
>campaign ended after that

Like I said, the Dm was pretty lax and didn't realize his mistake

Have a that guy currently, but I want to preface this by saying the dude is awesome. He's a great friend, helps new people out with rules, buys people drinks, brings snacks, etc. The dude is good guy Greg level whenever he isn't playing the game. Once he's in the zone, just fuck me sideways is he terrible.

>flipped over the table once because the dm said he couldn't roll to seduce a crocodile and keep it as a pet

>started a fight in game over the king not giving him more gold than everyone else and proceeded to try to slaughter the court

>actually punched a player for an in character joke that he had to pay a hooker for a night of fun in some village and it made him a loser

>constantly makes enemies with nearly any and every npc by trying to steal, cheat, or lie to them

>killed fellow players just to steal petty shit from them and did it once over a single gold coin because he didn't like that he lost a bet and had to pay up

It goes on and on. And I don't get it because outside of the game he's awesome and a cool and relaxed dude and has his shit together but once he's playing it's just all out.

you know that movie called 'the purge'? that's his way of doing it.

>has a hatred of monsters and of evil, no real motivations
This is also the sign of a Bad Player

Or maybe he doesn't like that stuff? Not every character needs to be a novel

>"big dick daddy with the candy cane nutsack"
Okay, every thing is dumb as shit, but the thought of someone trying to introduce themselves as that is fucking hilarious

Ooh! I LOVED when players did that! They'd talk about weaknesses of monsters they'd never met before, or where the story was going to end up with suspicious accuracy. So I'd fuck with it. Throw in a new plot twist that changes the ending, change up the monsters' weaknesses. I once completely redesigned how zombies worked, from standard rank and file undead to virus zombie (the virus is necromancy! It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit) because they were getting complacent.

I thought about later having him go after some kind of eldritch knowledge that he'd get a glimpse of, and going mad in the process, ultimately becoming a power-hungry warlock.

First three months I played a tabletop, I almost quit multiple times. I sat for 3 months, 3 hours each, and I swear to christ everyone was trying to make a funny epic "green text" story for Veeky Forums about how their epic joke payed off.

Shitting in holy water and wiping their ass on a knocked out PC and "asking to roll for size and consistency" of the turd.

Trying to convince the DM to let them roll an (40k) Ork who thinks he's a human with a high Charisma to fool everyone into thinking he's an Ork.

A paladin who dressed like a hobo and used lay on hands but instead he would punch people and say "you regain Xhp instead of lose it. Dont you wonder whats going on? You'll never guess!"

I cast detect evil on the lamp/I tell a joke, does the desk laugh?

Im a thief, can I roll to steal the baristas panties?

I want to roll a monk fighter who only uses suplexes and talks in macho man randy savage voice.

Like, I understand having fun. I get not every character is going to be "Edgy" or serious. But fuck I hate when people try to be funny 24/7

It takes god-tier skill to have a gimmick and actually have it be funny. Like this thread suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46244963/ where the guy only plays as a skeleton pc but actually makes it fun and would in any other situation be a That Guy

>Ork that thinks he's a human.
>Tries to use charisma to convince people he's really an ork.
this seems fairly accurate.

Aw fuuuuck I mistyped. You know what I mean. I think.

>actually hitting people and doing damage to stuff

I'd actually call the cops and never talk to the faggot again.

>Playing 3pf
>That guy rolls a catfolk rogue, like he always does every game
>Doesn't talk a lot, but likes to do sneaky shit and steal
>Rest of the party is pretty decent, being a bunch of local actors
>Whenever we try to roleplay or investigate after a fight, he attempts to loot everything
>Doesn't even do anything to help during said fights
>Doesn't share loot
>Always lies about the most mundane things
>Eventually ends up looting and donning a cursed mask
>It's a mask that reincarnates him
>DM forces him to play literally anything other than rogue
>Plays catfolk Ninja
>Does the same thing, and has no discernable change in personality
>Loses his character sheet
>Asks if he can just make a new character
>It's a Tengu Rogue
>Tries to pickpocket our king one night
>Gets caught and killed
>"wtf you never let me play my character right I just want to rp it's what my character would do"

>it's what my character would do

I hate this line. Anyone who says this is automatically that guy.

What did you mean user? I'm imagining
>"heh, dumb orks! dey tink i'm one 'a dem, but really i'm a bleedin' 'umie! heh heh heh!" -ork

i have a friend who is REALLY big and also always saying stuff about how she'd suck our dicks or flash her tits

we all have girlfriends too

>I want to roll a monk fighter who only uses suplexes and talks in macho man randy savage voice.
i see nothing wrong here

Just a copy of a tg story

Mine is a very mild case. This was a combat-focused 4e campaign with 6 people, where That Guy played a ranger. He was actually a pretty nice, chill guy, but it was clear that D&D just wasn't the game for him.

>Guy is fucking around on his phone all the fucking time
>Does not pay attention unless it's his turn in combat
>"Huh, what? My turn? Oh, uhh, I attack."
>Every session after an hour he says "hey, I'm gonna go smoke a bowl. Somebody play my ranger while I'm gone." He never comes back. When that encounter ends, most of the table joins him.
>Sessions pass
>Bard player has to stop playing because she gets moved to late shift.
>Barbarian player announces he's getting married and moving to a different city in a few months.
>Druid player has to work on her master's thesis and can't play any more.
>Wizard (whose house we played in) decides he doesn't want people using his house any more, so the rest of us don't have anywhere to play.
>Group disbanded and it was nobody's fault.
>We meet one day afterwards and That Guy says "(Bard player) really killed the whole group. She was bogging down on our guy-time."
>Everybody fucking loved Bard player. She's been part of the group forever. She's one of three people at the table who gave a shit about the story. What the fuck are you smoking dude?
>Turns out he was smoking alt-right memes.
>Last I checked he was working as a UPS delivery man to pay the bills while he tries to become a male model.

He's still a friend but the guy's a dumbass.

I joined a CoC group. I made a humble priest of the lord who was troubled about some of the confessionals he had received recently, intended as a loremonkey with connections.
There was also a cop, a PI, and an agent, so it's safe to assume that this was not a passive group.
And then there was That Guy. That Guy made what I can only imagine to be the closest approximation to a Fighter possible under CoC rules (I believe he was a war veteran who only had a cavalry saber and some kind of flak/bullet proof vest). He was the friend of the PI, and made it quite apparent that this game was not his idea. He was a DnD guy.
The first session he didn't do much. He was mostly a lump
The Agent, was mostly aware of goings on, so gave everyone else the talk and was the defacto leader, and asked each of us to do what we could to collect information.
The cop used some connections to spread the word to some local gangs to be on the lookout for anything unusual. I held a special sermon emphasizing cautionary vigilance in light of some fabricated crime spike and that anyone who sees anything unsafe in the next few days should tell me so I could warn the others.
The PI tailed a "suspicious" person the Agent fed him.
The faux-Fighter, I shit you not, asked three people in the street if they had heard about the Cthulhu cult (Nevermind that the Agent had let us know that the cult was dedicated to nyarlathotep), then asked where the brothel was, then since that wasn't a thing, spent the rest of the session in a bar.

Session 2, we got a bunch of new information. Some names, some dates, some things on the horizon, and a promise to help by one of the gangs the cop had contact with after they saw "some freaky shit".

Unfortunately, we also got a location. A refrigerated warehouse at the docks. The faux-Fighter was determined to go there and "kick some ass". He badgered his friend, the PI to go with him, and the cop disgruntedly volunteered to go with them. Me and the Agent stayed behind.
1/2

>>take i shit you not 2+ hourse to plan
>>we ignore these plans 99% of the time when either samurai or Decker go full retard

I'm pretty sure that's normal for shadowrun.

You know, an actual priest character in an eldritch setting sounds pretty fun. Don't know why I've never tried it.

It's a pretty compelling backstory. A priest would probably be one of the first to notice when his congregation mysteriously gets smaller and smaller as the members become cultists, or maybe some of his fellow priests are the cultists trying to subvert the Church from within, or maybe he comes across some hidden codes in an old Bible that turn out to be eldritch secrets or something. Limitless possibilities.

The Agent stayed behind "To gather more information", but I'm relatively certain it's actually because he knew what was coming. I stayed behind for similar reasons, but also because my character was totally unfit for combat.

So foux-Fighter (Hereafter known as Dingus), his friend, a police officer, and six criminal meatshields show up at a refrigerated warehouse ostensibly used by a cult to an Old God as a centralized base of operations at 4 in the afternoon. (The GM asked if they wanted to waif for nightfall, Dingus said no.). They break in, and find a bunch of cultists doing cultist things.Dingus charges, the PI, the Cop, and his backup squad open fire. Naturally, the Cultists cough up a Shoggoth, which proceeds to do what comes naturally to a Shoggoth, and before long, Dingus has been smashed, the cop died trying to tie up the Shoggoth long enough for everyone else to get away, the PI got shot by a panicking gangster, and the gangsters went down in a pile of SAN failures, except the one that got away to report back.

Dingus was furious, and bitched at the GM for bullshit. The GM and the Agent tried to explain that CoC is not a combat focused game, Dingus wasn't having it, so bitched a bit more, and left. The PI left with him, though he seemed pretty sad.
The game kind of fell apart at that point, we tried a third session but the magic was just gone.

I've done it once before, and it is actually both really fun to play, and actually surprisingly effective. You want a character that is both realistically likely to know some lore on That Which Must Not Be Named, yet also have people listen to them, then look no further.

>5e is a good beginner system, but now that we've got a few games in I hope the group will switch to 3.5.

This is a that dm story hopefully , need an opinion on it.

>5e dnd campaign
>setting has the party start out as privateers
>roll up a Mage thinking I'd be able to burn down opposing ships
>DM tells me that I can't, turns out in the setting that ships are protected by magic wards against magic
>doesn't have any effect unless I've boarded the ship
>okay fair enough, stops casters from being op in the setting
>Few sessions in we're tasked with destroying an inland base which holds a macguffin cannon
>the camp has hundreds inside
>king gives us no men or reinforcements, just expects us to somehow get in
>we sit there planning how we'll approach this
>me and bard come up with a plan, essentially we're gonna turn him into a predator drone
>MERICA, FUCK YEAH !
>so carve a glyph of warding onto a rock with the spell fireball on it
>then I cast fly onto the bard while he casts haste on himself , turning him into a freaking jet, fly overs the base throws the rock into their ammunition, job done
>flys over the base only for all of our magic being disabled
>turns out the base is enchanted with anti-magic fields with a sensory range of over a hundred fucking feet above
>bard dies from the fall
>do an arcana check and find out about the wards and the sensory field, also that anyone entering automatically disabled any magic item going in, all evocation or illusion spells are disabled for the duration spent in camp
>decide we have to sneak in disguised as guard and complete the mission
>do that and put on the uniforms
>dm tells us we need to do a performance check
>fair enough, everyone rolls we succeed
>go inside and immediately get knocked out
>wake up and we're all chained
>evil general approaches us and tells us that all soldiers have magic ID badges on them, if you don't have one instantly triggers an alarm.

And that was the last session, so what's tg's opinion? I'm genuinely pissed about the situation.

Jesus Christ I'd leave.

Sounds like the DM was trying to win D&D.

Bud, you just got railroaded. Do everything you can to derail, then post results at a later date

I'm thinking of that , honestly just needed a second opinion on it so I didn't seem like I was being an ass. Don't know if I should ask anyone else in the group about my concerns since I'm the new guy and the dm has been there for a few years

Definitely talk to the players and the dm about it. Or just be an asshole like I said

...

Sorry bout that , couldn't tell if it sent the first time

S'all right my man

Tell your GM that you also have a magic thingamajig that lets you Dispell Bullshit Fucking Railroad and leave.

Tell the GM you're not interested in playing a game where nothing you do matters, then leave. If no one wants to play his game then the options are either to whine like a fucking child about how people are assholes and hate fun, or realize that the things he wants to do aren't fun for anyone else. Most likely the first, but still.
>actually punched a player
You see that's the time when most people I know would have beat the living fuck out of him and thrown him out of the house, or just call the cops and ruin his fucking life. He's not a good guy, being okay outside of the times you're being a dick still means you're a dick. You don't need to justify hanging out with him.

Fuck that DM. That's ridiculous.

>Not every character needs to be a novel
That's a pretty lazy answer, fitting of a Bad Player. It is not very difficult to say "He hates monsters because they ate his best friend when he was 13" and it's also one sentence. Given that it's the motivation that compels the character to stay with the party to kill monsters, I would expect the player to tell me why he does it when I ask him about it.

Figures, lazy players are also bad players.

I had 2 that guys in one game i had

>Playing M&M
>GM is pretty new and inexperienced
>I made mix of Not!Doomrider and Not!Etrigan, spent most of my points in Immortality and teleport because i wanted my PC to be the punching bag while others got their shit done
>That Guy 1 plays some kind of Punisher faggot who kills the baddies for teh lulz
>That Guy 2 Plays some kind of animu girl batman who is invisible and never interacts with the party
>Start game
>Group starts "investigating" on a drug cartel
>Meaning i teleport everyone directly there and fuck shit up
>Except invisible animu girl, because i don't know she's there
>We bust the drug cartel, we all cheer yeah cool
>That guy 1 is pissed, with my charcater for some reason, probably because i don't amuse him and his brooding edginess
>Decides i need todie, shoots me
>he misses and i teleport to safety
>Return immediately after because im not a dick
>Game stops because that guy 1 is having a hissy fit
>Both That Guys then complained to the GM that i shouldn't be immortal because dying is the basic way of losing a game
>I know they just wanted to kill me and were pissed that they couldn't do it permanently
>Since the GM is inexperienced and easy to manipulate, they bully him into removing my immortality
>I admit it, i get mad
>"Ok, since i can't take Immortality, I put all my points in immunity and take immunity to death"
>I get kicked on the insistence of the two idiots
>There will never be a second session

I was not gonna stay anyway, but fuck those two faggots who wanted to be brooding and edgy in a very light-hearted game

Fuck, I hate people who think that roleplaying as a thief means stealing everything that's not attached to the floor. This shit is way too common

or barbarians who drink/fuck/kill everything in sight wherever they go

>There's a "That Guy" thread everyday

Why is there so many weirdos and douchebags playing Tabletop RPGs?

Because my dear quadmeister, there are a lot of "famous" people doing podcasts of them playing RPGs doing W@cKY® shit and there is an influx of idiots that think they are going to be able to intimidate an avalanche because their e-celeb did it.

Also, being a niche hobby, it gathers a lot of outcasts and for a good reason.

There's weirdos and douchebags in every hobby; tabletops are just a social activity that revolves around people making their own stories, which is the perfect mix to make tales like this

because tabletops are power fantasy games (usually) that appeal to the socially inept who think they can do anything they want.

also nice quads

Just leave user - its not worth it. That DM sounds like they wanted to build their game as if the DM was *fighting* the players.

This post legitimately makes me angry since it reminds me of my old shitty DMing a few years back.

If everyone is a retard and enjoying it, arent you THAT GUY then, OP?

There really aren't. The better question is why Veeky Forums seems to have interacted with all of them...oh right.

Sounds like something THAT GUY would say.

>be paladin
>see orphanage
>find out a child rapist runs it
>go in an confront and kill the rapist
>DM throws a hissy fit because it was going to be story arc that mimics a crime show
>ask why I did it
>it's what my character would do

>DnD
>Players hear of a dragon giving a settlement severe issues
>Players think they are probably too underleveled but say fuck it they will give it a shot anyway
>One player doesn't like the idea but says fuck it we will do it anyway
>They finally get there, the dragon is sleeping and they try to sneak up on it
>One of the players fucks up badly
>Little combat happens and the dragon knocks out two people in one turn due to their awful placement
>Gets to the one player who didn't want to come, the main healer
>He says he is just running away
>He has never acted like a coward before this fight
>Two players still alive and fighting, they distract the shit out of it and manage to roll really well, the two downed people are behind cover and easy to get to
>Healer is still running
>A guy that is still alive starts crafting and lobbing different kinds of potions doing a rather large amount of damage he tries to rush over to the other two players
>The other is just distracting the shit out of it in the open
>Dragon openly described as limping and having severe issues
>The healer is still running
>Dragon is supposedly at death's door but not quite dead yet
>A few more rounds pass and the two remaining people roll badly and get struck down
>Healer gets to the caved in entrance where they entered from and begins removing rocks
>The two survivors are grabbed and turned into stone over a turn or two, they fail their rolls badly
>Healer is just removing rocks
>Dragon takes the two stone people to the center of the room
>Healer just continues to remove rocks acting like its a dire situation for him and how he is scared he wont be able to get out
>Dragon picks up the other two and does the exact same thing
>Healer manages to make a hole and just leave, happy and excited he managed to get his character out with all of his stuff

"And then the dragon kills you. BANNED"

Damn I was scared that he was gonna get eaten. Phew! Good thing the hero survived.

It's the pickpockets that are the worst. They don't wanna do a heist or anything involved, it's all just spur of the moment.

>call the cops
Fucking Americans

I bet the DM did a bunch of hand waving or some shit.

Healer probably did nothing wrong.

Fuck That Guy threads, one sided garbage.

>Everyone else is on board for something retarded, healer is dragged along to be a good sport
>Shit blows up in your face as expected, guy didn't want to be here anyways.
>Does EXACTLY what his character would do in a way that could be easily predicted and is completely understandable
>Butthurt faggot runs to tell Veeky Forums on him

Holy shit I fucking hate you. You're playing dnd not fucking WoW. You're definitely posting in the right thread though.

Why are you visiting these threads if they're just gonna remind you of that time you sperged out over a game? If you're not enjoying it you don't have to be here. Don't make your problems our nuisance. I've seen you around in other That Guy threads. You always intentionally misinterpret peoples stories so you can put your own spin on them. Obviously we can all see trough it. It's about time you learn that.

While I wouldn't call the healer from your story That Guy it certainly wasn't very nice to be part of the planning and then just ditch your party the first thing you do. Everyone went into the fight counting on that healer and he just chickened out without saying a word.

>go into dumb situation and get btfo
>one guy is smart enough to not want to reroll a character and flees once it is evident you won't win while you retards keep trying

>wtf that guy! why didnt you act like a retard and die with us?!

No wonder the DM basically let the dragon let him live. He was the only guy who acted rationally when facing a dragon way above your level.

Arguably the dragon was at their level if it was at death's door when the party was missing a member

Notice how far you had to reach to try and come up with a contradiction?

>party almost kills dragon
>faggot ditching them was the sole reason tehy lost
>"LOL RETARD SERVES YOU RIGHT"

And it still beat them. Clearly they weren't quite ready for it. Let's not forget the healer stayed until two dudes were down and shit wasn't looking good to get out. Granted, you are supposed to be heroic in DnD, but is killing a random dragon worth a tpk? No. Sometimes ya gotta cut your losses and just live to try again. That is probably why the DM let him live, he knew that while the others acted like robots repeatedly hitting shit with no regard for their own safety. Even a hero has some sense of self preservation.

It would be like blaming a guy for running when a buff maniac runs into a room of 5 people, downs 2, and is working on the rest. Would these people mindlessly keep hitting the maniac? No. You fucking run. You're down half your party, learn when to cut your losses.

Or he could do his job and heal them? The reason they were downed is they stood right next to each other. They were ready for the Dragon as had they had the healer, the dragon would have died.

The GM needs to address the group.

1. Participation counts.
a. While it may take several sessions for the new guy to feel comfortable to speak up, everyone is expected to take an active role.

2. Everyone needs to have characters that will get along with everyone, and be able to participate in the campaign.
a. That doesn't mean you can't have interesting back stories, but it means that everyone is part of a party for some reason, and that this party is going adventuring.
b. It also means that everyone has to act somewhat sanely, and not derail the story.

It looks like the dragon beat them because their healer bailed on them immediately instead of making any attempt to heal

I know your pain better than most. Especially considering I play mostly 40k games. Try playing Dark Heresy where your team is a Eldar with every power and skill, a Dark Eldar who runs faster than vehicles, a SoB in love with one or both of them, and then just a couple normal characters. And the 3 of them are all "Lel we're so quirky and funny and we can makes 40k light-hearted and joyful every game xDddddD." It's actual hell.

So, what, the healer kept skipping turns and did nothing? Doubt it. Clearly he tried and when shit wasn't looking good. The two retards mindlessly kept bashing it, even after the healer left. They were idiots. At that point you roleplay and realize you aren't sacrificing yourself for a noble cause, but for a random dragon and flee. Live to fight another day and avenge your fallen friends.

What you shouldn't do is act like you're in a video game and keep fighting a pointless battle like a murderhobo who wants to grind more xp and loot. You play like a real character who has one life and run.