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 Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:31 am
I'm curious as to what really aggravates you in DnD. Something probably small, something that doesn't seem to aggravate anyone else, but somehow really just ticks you off. I'll start.
One of my major DnD pet peeves is the way people look at the Vow of Poverty feat. The first thing that comes to anyone's mind always seems to be "Vow of Poverty + Monk = l33tness! AWESOME!", and noone seems to even NOTICE the roleplaying aspects of the feat. They also ignore the fact that all these wonderful special abilities are granted because they can't use magic items that they normally would've gotten, and they have to expend two feats on this. They also don't seem to notice that they're supposed to be placed into poverty because of their own acts of charity, not just simply refusing to take money. In short, when a DM says that you'll be starting with less money than normal, or that you'll be taking the role of Monk, I think your first response should NOT be "Vow of Poverty".
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:32 pm
My pet peeve is PCs who always want to play evil characters when it's nowhere near appropriate for the campaign in question. Dude, no you may not play a CE character when the rest of the part ys 2 NGs and one LG...
And then they always do it by going with the "I'm a spy for the other side inside the party" BS. I mean, if you'ge going to disrupt the campaign, at least be original about it...
AND THEN, they get ticked off when they backstab the party and the party wins their retaliation, either killing the character or taking him to the proper authorities and definitely never trusting the PC in question to continue adventuring with them, so they have to maek a new character... <_<
PEOPLE, GET OVER IT!!! EVIL CHARACTERS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR EVERY CAMPAIGN!!!
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Chikayoseru Gekitsuu-Taco
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 3:06 pm
See, that isn't CE, that's Stupid Evil. Big difference. Even a Chaotic Evil character understands the benefits of having backup.
Vow of poverty pisses me off. Vow of Peace pisses everyone else off. 3nodding
One of my pet peeves are the "Poof, new character, introduce self" entrance, or the "I don't like this character, new character" thing every session. Smack people upside the head. It's a bad thing when your party has been on the same campaign, and you are one of two characters out of 6-8 characters that were around near the beginning.
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:33 pm
Yes, but what I mean is the VAST majority of people who play Evil characters want to play them like that, and when you say some people can't do it, it's really only fair to say the people who do it rationally can, either.
And UGH! I know what you mean about people that change characters all the time. I swear every time my firends and I start a new campaign one of the peope we know switches character ideas LITERALLY like 3 times per day... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:46 pm
Asylum_Rhapsody And UGH! I know what you mean about people that change characters all the time. I swear every time my firends and I start a new campaign one of the peope we know switches character ideas LITERALLY like 3 times per day... sweatdrop Yeah! I agree with y...ah crap, I changed a character recently. In my defense, it was the only time I've ever done so, and the character really wasn't appropiate for the campaign. I mean, what's the point of being an undead hunter when there's NO undead to hunt?
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:06 pm
PaperGolem Asylum_Rhapsody And UGH! I know what you mean about people that change characters all the time. I swear every time my firends and I start a new campaign one of the peope we know switches character ideas LITERALLY like 3 times per day... sweatdrop Yeah! I agree with y...ah crap, I changed a character recently. In my defense, it was the only time I've ever done so, and the character really wasn't appropiate for the campaign. I mean, what's the point of being an undead hunter when there's NO undead to hunt? I'm probably going to change my character too. There's no need for my character, now that John has his uber overly powerful cretin of destruction that heals too.
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Chikayoseru Gekitsuu-Taco
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:51 pm
Chikayoseru Gekitsuu-Taco PaperGolem Asylum_Rhapsody And UGH! I know what you mean about people that change characters all the time. I swear every time my firends and I start a new campaign one of the peope we know switches character ideas LITERALLY like 3 times per day... sweatdrop Yeah! I agree with y...ah crap, I changed a character recently. In my defense, it was the only time I've ever done so, and the character really wasn't appropiate for the campaign. I mean, what's the point of being an undead hunter when there's NO undead to hunt? I'm probably going to change my character too. There's no need for my character, now that John has his uber overly powerful cretin of destruction that heals too. I half expected you to quit. You seemed particularly un-enthused last session, and with good reason.
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:17 pm
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Chikayoseru Gekitsuu-Taco
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:25 pm
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:09 pm
Depends whether or not the entire party is munchkining evenly. If they are, simpl increasing CR should be good enough, but yeah when it's just one person out of the entire party, it is very disruptive, as when you challenge the other players, that player find it easy, and when you challenge that play, the others find it impossible...
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:45 pm
Heh, I'd have to really agree about players wanting to play evil characters or races when its really inappropriate for the campaign. I've been having a problem with that lately. . . this one guy keeps wanting to play a CE or LE character, when most of the party is NG or CG. And he always wants to pick fights with the other characters at the stupidest times.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:17 pm
as far as im conserned, they're a breed of munchkin too...
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:15 pm
Hmm...munchkins...normally I wouldn't mind a player attempting to increase his character's power, except I like to play Bards, and whenever we're in combat munchkins make me feel kind of sad, and insignificant...so screw them!
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:30 pm
Chikayoseru Gekitsuu-Taco See, that isn't CE, that's Stupid Evil. Big difference. Even a Chaotic Evil character understands the benefits of having backup.
Vow of poverty pisses me off. Vow of Peace pisses everyone else off. 3nodding
One of my pet peeves are the "Poof, new character, introduce self" entrance, or the "I don't like this character, new character" thing every session. Smack people upside the head. It's a bad thing when your party has been on the same campaign, and you are one of two characters out of 6-8 characters that were around near the beginning. mine is starting at level one....I hate all levels lower than 4 or 5...it's just SO easy to die as a spellcaster.... however, if I was going to be CE and betray them, I would do it as a necromancer with a skeletal minion instead of farmiliar, with enhanced undead instead of bonus spells, and with any feat I could get that would boost my undead. then I would raise a small army and swarm them when it's my watch.... I Really should consider playing bad guys more often....I'm good at it when I want to be....
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:34 pm
I recently started playing a campaign where I started out playing a CN bard with self-destructive tendancies. He got turn CE but a Deck of Many Things. Now he not only inflicts unneccissary misery on not only himself, but everyone around him.
And yet, he still contributes enough to the party that they really really don't want to get rid of him. They don't even realize he's evil, yet, just miserable and maybe a little sadistic.
What I hate are parody characters. Everyone wants to be Drizzt or that one halfling who doesn't notice when he steals stuff. stare Seriously, make up your own characters.
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