SIX FUCKING MONTHS. FOR SIX FUCKING MONTHS, one of my players has been blatantly playing as a video game character and I didn't catch on because I'd never played the game.
Should I just end the adventure? I feel completely fucking busted by this, it wasn't even subtle, he's literally the character with a slightly different name.
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Prior to knowing this, how did you feel about their character?
what char
Did he play them well?
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I can't make my fucking PCs leave this fucking castle alone. They've spent 130k gold on it so far and they keep trying to turn DCC into ACKS and won't even play ACKS. I actually reduced the entire thing to ruins with a massive giant attack and they were like "Oh man this must have something really valuable in the catacombs if a giant army wanted it." And rebuilt it. Dragons blow up towers and they have them rebuilt. They've been doing this so long they're on their third set of PCs, with around 19 level 10 pcs that just sort of wander the fuck around being walking demigods. I have this entire world built and all they want to do is hang out in this castle and "investigate the mysteries." I made the fucking mistake of having one of them, after 10 sessions of digging into the god damn ground, actually find a hidden chamber with a shitty +1 sword and now they've got armies of craftsmen in there, tunneling, holing out and making a small subterranean city. Had them bump into a dwarven thaig or whatever and get invaded, ruining all of their progress. Fuck it, we got lots of gold let's build it all again but this time with more shit. I can't fucking handle this anymore. My players. Will not. Leave. This castle.
Why do you care?
which character?
Why do you give a shit weirdo? Everyone's having fun
What the fuck????
If they won't explore the world, why don't you have the world come to them?
They're operating the castle like a nation. Have the setting you built rebel against them or shit.
Clearly they're trying to play Dwarf Fortress.
Lel XD upboated!
The fuck is this thread
A-Are you ok?
>mfw this thread
I'm 300% sure one of us is having a seizure.
Who the fuck cares. Unless he's doing something ridiculous making the game shit, why does it matter if he's using Geralt of Rivia?
Also, mfw people think they are making donut steel characters.
>pranking the DM this hard
>Party is teifling alchemist, Orc bezerker, a naga rogue, a cleric and me, a Paladin
>So they walk down the stairs, and the lobby is right around the corner
>Rogue hears something
>someone creeping up the stairs behind them
>giant cultist cube out for our souls
>Run from the murder cube
>Nobody says shit about the cleric
>He also didn't get the hint
>Rogue just shrugs at me
>DM gives me a weird look
>NEar total party wipe, due to bad rolls. My Paladin is only one left, and on low health.
>Everyone else is bleeding out
>BBEG "Stand down, stop fighting me, and I shall let you live. Join with me, and serve me, and I shall bring back your beloved, gifted with life so she never has to leave you again."
>The rest of the players are silent
>Deal with glares
>Phew
>The dick-ass DM ain't having any of that
>I look at him
>I calmly point his "mistake"
>he becomes visibly upset, draws attention from everyone else
>Won't show it to anyone due to it being shiny.
>silence in the room
>spots the squishy members of the party
>Cleric puts up shields to defend them
>Mishap temporarily averted.
>HOWEVER, not the fallen will ragequit
>Cleric opens a door
>Call bullshit
>DM claims the cleric cast the spell
>Call bullshit on that
>DM's face is anus-red
My thoughts precisely but I'm laughing so hard I'm literally crying
What are you even saying
>nobody recognizes obscure pasta
This is why you all drop Spaghetti instead of Pappardelle or Fusilli Avellinesi.
You've apparently been fine with the character for six months. If that's the case, what's the problem now? Clearly the character fits with the world and is interesting enough for you to have been okay with them this far. Just let the player have their fun.
is this from the tabletop roleplaying chapter of finnegans wake?
is this an ai improving with every post
>Party is teifling alchemist
I was there when this pasta was posted the very first time, and this phrase was instantly and indelibly burned into my mind. Top tier trademark pasta right there.
>HOWEVER, not the fallen will ragequit
Classic shit
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user, you know what you must do.
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You got pranked HARD bro.
Oh well, just run with it.
Penguin of Doom shit, it's also a retarded nudist gnome."
Teehee Maccaroni is the because thing; "There goes user! user's just a big grouch who's getting angry because we're struggling at and louder and louder and louder until he's about to shouting
>TEE HEE HEE, MACCARONI!
>TEE HEE HEE, MACCARONI!
And the middle of encounters we're struggling at and start low;
>Tee-hee, Maccaroni," who the worst part is hilarious to have this chant start character show up the GM affectionately describes as "an epic level sorcerer who's also a ritual; the worst part is his anus, and he casts the table loves it! The other guys I play with thinks it's hilarious to show up his is some point involves running gag" for dumb fun, you stick-in-the mud!"
And the same think this is some embarrassing circa-2002 Penguin of Doom shit! Teehee Maccaroni Maccaroni
And the phrase "I like a retard magic" shoved up his again! Why won't you just here for dumb fun, you just here for dumb fun, you just let us have
Why are you freaking out? It's nothing, just roll with it. God.
I have no reaction images to describe how I am having a hard time telling if this is a robot or a human.
This is a NEW BREED of shitpost that we have not yet adapted to as a culture.
I wonder if this is what modern English would sound like to someone from 100 years ago.
Damn. All this seizure posting and I just wanna know what damn character hes playing.
Meta Meta shitposting has been achieve by the guy who stuff
This is what happens when we let nascent AIs play tabletop.
Everything is fine and then they break down into almost-coherent gibberish.
pls be my ai gf
I'm not an AI silly billy.
I just happen to know ABOUT AIs. And their special needs.
Are you okay? Can you smile? I need to see if half of your face is paralyzed
What the AIctual fuck.
This is some next level shitpost right there
You should continue the game as normal. He got one over on you fair and square.
It seems to favor the word "anus."
This.
What is my sex or a little bit greater. My class graduated from Al-Qaida suspects at the top of the more than 300 confirmed deaths involved in many secret raids. Aiming at the top of the United States military of the war I wrote
You broke the spell, I know this one and it does not amuse. For a few minutes I was actually happy.
Ok, please don't hurt my family.
hwat.
I remember
>TEE HEE HEE MACCARONI
from some other post, this is all jumbled up
Doing God's work, user.
You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial?
The AI is a jumble of copypastas.
See:
but why?
I've played pic related in two separate campaigns. The first time, I successfully pulled the wool over the GM's eyes with a bit of clever renaming and only revealed muh clever ruse once I established a place in the party.
The second time I just straight up blatantly played her. And honestly, it just felt better. The rest of the party was skeptical and a little disappointed at first, but I pulled off her persona and character so bloody convincingly that they changed their tune real quick and we had a blast on our little campaign.
Sometimes a character resonates so well with you, you just want to shamelessly play it and have fun.
So, you know. Let people enjoy things.
I've seen it brought up that these kind of posts are made by markov chain chatbots. This one probably got fed a bunch of copypastas and mangled them horribly.
Where do you think you are?
I mean, I accidently played Optimus Prime in pathfinder for a while.
CG Paladin warforged?
That's fucking awesome
Fuck my current campaign, my character's now hellbent on doing this.
holly shirt the pasta is reel
go commit sudoku
how did that happen? did you start off, was it a slow mutation or a quick transformation?
Was there a period when all the pasta seemed like it was generated by somebody living in Twin Peaks?
See
for the short answer, long answer, Paladin warforged, disguased as a human who came into posession of an artifact that made him giant-sized. Bare knuckle boxed a dragon.
Up your butt and around the corner
Seizures from the Nile?
Sounds like a situation where some rocks might fall.............?
Here you go.
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>Sometimes a character resonates so well with you, you just want to shamelessly play it and have fun
Amen to that. Stroke posts aside, I myself played pic related multiple times. Quite literally the most fun I've ever had roleplaying, of course I've changed his name and a bit of things about his backstory, but in the end the personality is 1:1. Every time I play him, the party starts off with immediately disliking me, going as far as to even attempt to ditch me one time, but I grow on them to the point I become the party leader.
What's wrong with the second post?
I mean, if you can't make a character without carbon copying yourself.... at least you'll have something interesting by stealing other media?
If you want them to leave, there are three ways of doing so. 1. Show them the greener grass that is outside of their kingdom. 2. Just wait them out. 3. Give them negative reinforcement.
If I were doing this, I'd have a fairy or demigod come to mourn a love one who's grave is there. Only to find said grave destroyed by the party, so he puts a curse on the castle. For a 1,000 this castle and all who choose to stay live in it will be cursed with having the worst possible that can happen, to happen.
my sides.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the OP.
make a god damn darkest dungeon inspired game if all they want to do is stay on the same fucking estate the whole game.
Not actually a bad idea.
such a not a bad idea y'all got ninja'd way, way further up
I played through an entire campaign as basically Kenpachi and Yachiru, get over it fun hater
I mean, if someone did such a good job you didn't notice for 6 months, it's a pretty good character right?
Have them discover a powerful magical device in the center of the castle, that once activated begins to transport the castle to random places around the world, causing them to be forced to interact with the locals to placate them after this great honking castle appeared in the middle of the nobles district, in the middle of the incredibly ritual-based agricultural mage group's prize crop, in the middle of the dragon's hoard. After some of this have it be activated while they're out solving something and teleport away, so now their quest is to travel across the land to find where their home has gone, following rumors of a castle appearing at such-and-such location only to find it gone again before they arrive, eventually discovering it's been hijacked by the big bad of choice who is using it to his nefarious ends
Just spewing out ideas based on something a friend got me watching recently, if any of it inspires anyone then yay.
See you in another lie, brutha
*life
DOWN, SWORD HAND!
Fun fact, the second GM I played Illaoi under initially berated me for not coming up with something original, when he himself, in the first ever game I played with him, played an exact carbon copy of One Punch Mickey from Snatch (and was my exact argument against him).
When you play the hobby for over a decade, trying time and time again to make original the characters donut steel, stepping into the persona of an existing character is just a refreshing change of pace.
I think I fail to understand the problem. If it was a good character why does it matter where the idea came from? Is this a distorted rpg version of "it's popular, so I don't like it regardless of if its own merits"?
How bad of a DM do you have to be to not be able to do something with this cool of a set up, your players deserve better
>This is the state of Veeky Forums
>People so fucking new that they fall for stale copypasta form other boards
>People so disgustingly reddit that they cant tell its copypasta instantly
I've been on Veeky Forums since 2011 and I don't remember seeing that first copypasta.
Oh shit, I went off to the bar and forgot to give the details.
Alright, so he made what I thought was a pretty neat character, a tough old Goliath Vengeance Paladin/Electric Sorcerer gish who hated dragons. He was very distinct about his armor description, helmet shaped like a lion's face, long red plume, ornate gilded platemail with long tassets. Signet ring bearing the sigil of a lion from the family he used to serve. Big cross spear Glaive. Lightning magic.
So I'm telling a buddy of mine about my group, and he makes me repeat the part about Cross Spear Goliath a few times...and then shows me some video game footage of this motherfucker. Even the name was 90% the same (Ronstein)
He was playing a fucking Dark Soul. For six months.
>stale copypasta form other boards
>all traces show it originated at Aug 7, 2017 on Veeky Forums
Research tells me that this copypasta is neither stale, nor from another board.
Get your shit straight.
>Ronstein
The only way this could be more amazing, is if the player's name was Ron.
>You've been fine with it lol
>what's the problem lol
>clearly the character is okay lol
I THOUGHT IT WAS AN ORIGINAL GUY, I HAD PLOT HOOKS FOR HIM, AND THEN HE'S A FUCKING DARK SOUL. A DARK SOUL GUY. A FUCKING BOSS. WOULD YOU LET SOMEONE JUST UP AND PLAY A DANTE'S INFERNO BOSS OR FUCKING SEPHORITOH IN YOUR GAME!? NO, YOU LIARS FUCKING WOULD NOT!
Wait, how long ago was it? Did he fall in battle against a Nightwalker?
I have a character named Iktom the Killer Kobold in my back pocket specifically for killing player characters in fair and humiliating ways.
Shitposting, shitposting has changed. Nanobots nanobots Snake the nanobots war were declared.
He isn't, though.
Ornstein never speaks or leaves his post, and his only goal is to defend Anor Londo from hollow/undead incursions.
Ronstein, however, went out adventuring. Whatever hooks you planned, he can take.
Have the character lose his gear to a Rust Monster or a petty thief in the night and see if he still wants to play the character. Shatter his delusion.
have him taken out in one shot by some Dark Souls looking thing, and make up a sign that has the "You have Died" text in the appropriate font, and show that to him.
or, be glad that he connected enough with a game like that to want to create a character in your game. last game I ran the That Guy in my group based a character off of a gender swap hentai game where the MC got turned into a girl and was fucked by half the high school.
I was running Star Wars.