Biggest redflags

>I'm a huge fan of Critical Role! I can't wait to roleplay with you guys!
>Where is your Critical Fumble table?
>Cheers at nat20's

What am I missing?

Shitposters who repeat themselves constantly.

Saged and closed.

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People who have red flags.
I don't do this "x card" bullshit, regardless of what you rename it to because you got laughed at by all communities simultaneously.

What you describe just sounds like someone who's very new to the hobby. Be polite, explain what game you're trying to run, see if they're still interested. If you handle it like an adult, it's not a problem.

>Plays a power class without any roleplaying what so ever
>Hey how good looking is the person I'm talking to?
>I based this character off of an OC I created before. Bonus points if it's based off of a MLP or Sonic OC
>I'm playing as a cannibal

>Have any of you been to Veeky Forums?
>That place is HILARIOUS
>I'm rolling a character based off a meme I read there once

Not those exact words obviously, but it's basically what happened, and the first time I just kicked someone out of the group before a game even started.

>"I know you only allow books A, B and C for character creation, but I want to play with my character made from book F"
>"I want to play a thing that doesn't exist in this setting"
>Rolls up one character but shows up with a different one unannounced
>Notes alignment in a system that doesn't use alignments
>Backstory is three sentences long
>Backstory is three pages long
>Backstory for level 1 character is an unbelievably lengthy story of achievements that would be too much for a level 20
>Burps, farts and general B.O. problems
>this guy

I wouldn't want to play with your hugbox ass anyway, user.

I thought after the barrage of threads talking about how Critical Role was ending, we would maybe not have constant daily threads about OP complaining about Critical Role.

As someone who only gets information about Critical Role from Veeky Forums, I am hoping that OP will stop talking about Critical Role at some point in the future.

Impossible. All Veeky Forums does is complain about things. They will continue complaining about this for all time. It will only seem like they stop complaining about it when a new thing to complain about shows up, and all that will do is slow complaining about the current thing.

>"Did you read the rulebook?"
>[Some sort of No]
Biggest possible, save for maybe pbta and similar games

>Power class
Not sure what this means. A class with (supernatural) powers like a caster, or a class which is considered more powerful than others? I don't see why a roleplaying deficit would be less problematic with non-caster or weaker characters.

>How good-looking is the person I'm talking to?
Can be a valid question depending on the setting. Nobles often appear more physically attractive. Also some characters think with their genitals; if the GM is down for some fade-to-black, it could be appropriate.
>Based on old OC
As long as they're willing to adapt the character to fit the world and story the GM is running, I don't see why this is a problem. Just the character based on their character.

>I'm playing as a cannibal
So they want to play a Bosmer in an Elder Scrolls homebrew.

Yeah, talking about Veeky Forums IRL is a pretty huge red flag.

I find it works, but it only works when literally everyone talking about it is tired and old and complaining about newfags.
If anyone who doesn't have wrinkles starts talking about it, you shame them.

The biggest correlation between being a shit player and a single attribute I've ever found is being fat.

Fat people are shit players 95% of the time.

Don't get me started on fat people, user.
I had a job where I wheelchaired people around an airport, and the fat people were objectively more rude, more stupid, lower tipping, and more generally demanding.

It doesn't help that they are literally too big to fit into the airplane's aisles, and complain to high heaven at how much it hurts to squeeze in there.

I say this as a chubby scumbag myself, the correlation of how fat you are to how bad a person you are is staggering.

Compare that to the actually disabled or the elderly, who are generally a lot more kind, even if they're legitimately cranky. Even then, if either of those groups got fat, they started becoming ruder.

>Have any of you been to Veeky Forums?
I don't know... me and my group sometimes reference threads that have been made or posts written on Veeky Forums as well as memes.

And we have a lot of fun actually.

>anime-style character art in a game that isn't explicitly anime-inspired

actually, my biggest suprise in a game was from a fa/tg/uy:
>overweight, anthro porn addict, neckbeard.
>COMMIE.
>surprisingly he had a gf some time ago.

then the actual game comes:
>roleplays a Veeky Forums mercenary like a viking
>acts decently compared to the two other edgelords in the team, even tries to calm things IC when they just fuck everything up.
>no weird fetish witnessed.

and this, is why you never judge someone before they start playing.

There is a difference between everyone in a group being on the level about Veeky Forums and it's a different box of nails going up to someone and going "hey guys, heard about them 4chins? lul!"

One is a bunch of friends having fun.
The other is a blunt tool.

Yeah he is part of that 5%. Also your fake nuance and cliche common wisdom makes your entire post reek of plebbit.

You know, I was about to deny that, but then I remembered that every problem player in my groups have been fat.

Huh.

What did he want to do, play Sir Berrington?

It works like charm

The real secret is that furries make the best roleplayers

I'm about 50/50 on this, about half my problem players were fat

>Why would the town people distrust me when I'm playing playing my undead ogre half-dragon?

>I'm a huge fan of Critical Role! I can't wait to roleplay with you guys!
Depends, if RPG veteran, then yes. Probably a Gamist player.

>Where is your Critical Fumble table?
Nothing wrong with that. Though it's less useful with d20 because the dice lacks the granularity of d100 and 5% might be too much.

>Cheers at nat20's
>cheering at a good roll is not allowed
Are you are retard, OP?

>I just kicked someone out of the group before a game even started.
That's rich when it's idiots like you who give Veeky Forums a deservedly bad rep.

Why would you allow them to play that?

Most of those just seem like a "no", not red flags. But that's just me. I only take issue with
>Backstory is 3 sentences long
I can write a backstory right now in 3 sentences:
While taking a shit, user wanted to check a thread on Veeky Forums. He found the thread to be pretty much what he expected on Veeky Forums. user decided to set forth and shitpost on /mu/.

Pretty much this It was pretty just me and him that went there, and he kept trying to make everyone else go there so they're "in the know" when he's repeating epic memes he read on here once.

Or so they get the references when he's rolling fucking Old Man Henderson basically word for word. Incidentally that was the character submission that just got him straight up booted.

honestly this

you must not play with americans often

It's because they generally have more experience. Practice makes perfect, and that's why Veeky Forums is filled with shit roleplayers.

I'm always wondering why none of my DMs have people call me out for playing weird things. Huge gnoll druid covered in wooden armor and skulls? No comment from the cityfolk. "Lepper" who smells like death and is totally not a ghoul? A few remarks from important NPCs, but the shopkeepers don't seem to notice. I play these things with the expectation that it will be fun to roleplay, but none of the NPCs are phased.

>Always wants to play a character with an evil alignment.
>Every character is the same race & class, and always plays every character the same way.
>Does "wacky zanny stuff" to "catch the DM off guard" but just ends up annoying the other players.
>Bases a character off their Mary Sue OC, bonus points if they're a furry.
>Doesn't understand that NPCs aren't video game NPCs, and that randomly attacking people or picking fights with the city guard have actual concequences.

>player goes into uncomfortable detail about public urination when the scene is currently indoors

I played an undead satyr cleric of the goddess of death of the setting. I was wearing an ornate brass mask, full body monk robes, leather boots for satyr and leather gloves. i was going around pretending to be a leper officially, but most people felt a sense on unease and dread around me, as if something was completely wrong. definitely the lingering effects of negative energies animating my character. My character was a Death Cleric from the goddess of death of the setting. the origins of my character was that I was as close to being a bard without actually being a bard in life, but after being stabbed in the eye by a necromancer, my body being raised as a skeleton, and adventurers coming to unmake the necromancer and me beging for freedom, the adventurers brought me to a church and left me there

H-how fat senpai?

Either be less fat or go put of your way to be part of that 5%.
Not playing MTG and being a good person help.
t. Fat person

>The DM told me that the race I'm playing pretty much only comes from this one island, which is an island in which everyone is a cannibal.
>I'm not the only character from this island
>Neither of us has eaten someone yet
>We both use cannibalism as a threat and joke about how we eat people to the other PCs
Nothing bad has yet come of this.

>They ask you what your opinion of killing other PCs is before the campaign starts.
>Asking for hombrews or special rulings after a no homebrew rule has been established
>Always talk about how powerful past characters they played were
>All they want to talk about is OP character builds
>Wants to change character mid campaign

>They ask you what your opinion of killing other PCs is before the campaign starts.
This is fine. They might just be checking out whoever's running the game to see if they should play.

Perhaps your right, they might be checking for a red flag themselves.

>Character's specialty is picking pockets, his backstory is picking pockets, his personality is picking pockets
>anything in the same vein as the above, just with stealth, assassination, pyromania, what have you
>blatantly obvious attempt to play an invulnerable self-sufficient highly optimized statblock instead of a character

For me it's always these types that just want to join and make trouble instead of actually playing the game.

>Cheers at nat20's

By the sound of it, actual human interaction of any kind.

>>Wants to change character mid campaign
Kinda late for a red flag.
But honestly, that tilts me pretty fucking hard.

This. My fat player is my problem player. And my other player who was gaining weight was getting worse as he gained weight.

95% of fatties confirmed shit players.

>why is the Paladin upset when I rape dead bodies!
>Raping dead bodies

That just means your assumption pulled an XCOM moment and missed what should've been a sure thing. Sometimes a quick glance at a person is all you need to know if that person is gonna be trouble.

>will only play a chaotic neutral Character.
>Even if forced by DAM and whole party won't budge past chaotic E,N,orG.
We get it! You want to LOL randomtard.

I don't see a problem with any of these. Heck, the first and the last are just people having fun and getting excited, and the middle one is easily ended with a discussion and a firm no.

People who are super devoted to following Critical Role, and THEN coming into the game tend to have certain expectations that I've found are kind of a pain in the ass to get them out of.

The second isn't too bad and never a problem for me, if only because I hate critical fumbles and think most of them tend to be fucking stupid.

The third tends to come from the first, and are usually the sort of people who think "LAWL NAT 20!" makes them win everything forever and get pissy when it doesn't.

>Roll Nat 20 on a diplomacy check with the king, while trying to start out level one quest.
>Become king with a harum and rule the kindom for 20 years within my 6 seconds turn.

That's a failure on the GM's part, and you know it. Getting excited about a crit is part of the game, random outcomes in your favor are one of the foundation stones of the entire hobby. A GM letting that go too far is a different situation from a player having fun.

I'll never understand this. Do people regularly participate in activities without understanding how they work? Same applies for roleplaying games - you gotta know the basics.

Don't underestimate the ability of ignorant people, they'll surprise you every time with how low you can set a bar and still fail.

ADnD doesn't even have crits. Just a 5% chance to ensure your character dose hit.

This is always painful to watch.

Do players get fatter as they get worse or does getting fat cause them to become worse players?

One of the more extreme That Guy characters I've witnessed was part of a game my friend ran for some mutual friends of ours who'd never roleplayed before. The character was a man who went around fucking things and very, very little else. The player was a very polite asexual girl and an outspoken feminist.

Play your cards right and Polygon could ask you to play DOOM 2016 for them, I hear they hire anyone to be a game journalist these days!

I assume getting fat makes them worse?
Otherwise that would mean Fat is some kind of negative energy/bad skills storage containment.

Also there are plenty of skinny fags who suck and are terrible. So it would make more sense that becoming fat makes you worse. Meaning those skinny fucks are at their best.

How do you feel if the player wants to change character because their existing one ended up too powerful and makes things difficult for the GM to properly gauge challenges for the party in general (Too easy for the overpowered PC and too hard for the non-optimized PCs), and the player wants to make a character that's less optimized?

>What happens when you change the situation or add information that makes things different.
Well then the situation would be different and the things would change.

Well, obviously. But I was asking about how one feels about that specific situation.

I'm kinda in that situation as a player. But my problem is more Role play OP vs Min Max OP. But I'm gana make it work, or find a conclusion so I have good reason to make a new character.

I guess I'm saying don something reckless so you can accept the results and move on? If you do it right it'll be cool. But you have to do it in a non-suicide way while still commenting suicide.

It's not hard to find a good reason to make a new character...

>Alright, I've made enough gold now to support my family. Thank you all for your teamwork and assistance, my friends, but I'm going back to my village. I would love to continue to adventure with you, but it's too dangerous, and my sister needs me. Perhaps we can meet again!

You don't need a character to die in order to make a new one. You can have them retire, seperate from the party, turn evil and become an NPC... A few characters I had retire not because they died, or because I didn't want to play the character anymore, but because they lost their reason for adventuring or because they were needed back at their home. Then I'd usually give the GM a few hints about their motivations and let the character go.

If you like the character, you could always discuss it with the GM and have some sort of thing happens that limits their prowess. Unstoppable minmaxed barbarian berserker? He loses an arm in an ambush. Now he has to both a serious handicap and something to roleplay around.

>>Power class
>Not sure what this means.
I think he means a min-maxer who's only interested in stats and dice rolls and not playing a 'character', as such

That's kind of the problem- that nobody wants to actively weaken their character. I mean, when I ended up with an overpowered caster, I had my character actively decide not to cast certain necromancy or conjuration spells specifically because they were overly cruel or punishing... and then whenever I got into trouble I ended up using those spells because it was better than dying. But the thing is, an RPG is built off of challenges, and your 'reward' for succeeding in these challenges is to grow in power and level. It feels like going against the grain to make your character weaker for little to no benefit. It would be completely different if you lost an arm by not being prepared for an ambush, but there's a difference between offering to have character weaknesses or flaws (which are in the rules, in many cases, and grant extra bonuses) versus just deciding 'oh yeah, and he's shit at X for reasons'.

It's like making a wizard and then making sure they put on a cursed ring of permenant antimagic field. There's no point in even having a player character, or levels at all, when you could just make a level 1 commoner that curls up and covers his ears in a fight.

Remember that you are not your character. You are someone who is playing the role of a character, sometimes. You don't have to do what's good for your character when you are not in character, and since all this is imaginary anyway (and the DM can technically just go "rocks fall" at any stage), it's senseless to focus on how stronk your uber barbarian/caster/whathaveyou is. Much better instead to have a character that is actually fun to play, even if that means giving the DM the go-ahead to weaken your current character. Because from the sound of it you are not enjoying the fact that your character is OP.

Yeah but then you'd have to play DOOM 2016.

Or you could not play at all and just bullshit about it online like a proper gaming journo

>Unable to roleplay
For me this is a huge red flag as it demonstrates a larger lack of creativity, lateral thinking and initiative. Now I don't expect people to come to my games putting on voices and wearing wizard hats, nor do I expect pages of backstory, but if they cannot make a character with an actual personality and goals as well as play them in such a manner then they're out. The rollplayers I've hosted games for have always tended to be terrible at solving puzzles and have needed to be pulled by the nose to do anything despite numerous plothooks which other more creative players have eagerly snapped up. Now I always host a test session to see if someone can actually roleplay. If not I don't allow them to play.

>regular meet for DND in store
> wasn't available one day so went to pub next door
>The placed seem more chill, wondered why we didn't come here before
>20s something girl comes up to our table
>are you guys playing DND?
>yes
>oh so just like in stranger things!
>Suddenly remember why we only played in the store or in someone's basement.

>thing I like gets mainstream exposure
>that's bad
Well at least we know why you only played in the store or your natural environment.

Getting fat fucks up your hormones (as dose suddenly losing a lot of weight), which can easily affect your mental state.

>Demolition Expert
>actually anything regarding explosives
>half/quarter/three-quarter/hexadecimal-dragon something
>any melee class kobold character
>i want my bard to have X wacky instrument

>>Demolition Expert
>>actually anything regarding explosives
Storytime?

>this house is creepy let's blow it up
>that boss looks scary, let's blow up the building
>I blow open the door even though we were sneaking this whole time
>I put explosives into the rubble to blow it up even though people are in there, I'm sure they'll survive

>why are we getting punished for blowing up goverment buildings as goverment workers?
>what do you mean the boss had information and we lost it because we just blew up the building?
>what do you mean they raised an alarm? We were sneaking the whole way through!
>what do you mean the NPCs died?
>you're a shit GM

If you're reading this Gregg, fuck you. This is why nobody on campus wants to play anything outside of tic-tac-toe with you.

>Bard with X wacky instrument
How else do you bard? Other than singing using some wacky instrument is literally the class.

Wacky Instruments
>trombone
>piano
>harmonica
>eletric guitar in a medieval fantasy setting
>triangle
>gong

>girl approaches
>i have some interest in the thing you are doing due to my interest in something else
>"Back to the dungeon reeeee"

Veeky Forums never changes

>The character was a man who went around fucking things and very, very little else.
>The player was [...] an outspoken feminist.
Color me surprised.

So you are some sort of retarded hipster? Not only this has nothing to do with redflags at all (hence the retarded part), but it also can be summed up in "I can't enjoy my hobby, because people know about its existence" (the hipster part)

>>i want my bard to have X wacky instrument
What's wrong with that? I remember a guy hauling a fucking guqin around and he was VERY creative about using it for different things.

Only the piano is a problem. Unless it's a small hand held one or something. And if they can't play an "electric guitar" then just tell him to pick another wacky instrument.

>Harmonica
>Wacky