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Newbiespud
1st Aug 2019, 6:00 AM
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I think I've grown into flexile characters a lot. I tend to have a character that fits very nicely into several of the basic party rolls, and can do them pretty well. I either tend to lead by example or aid others to doing what they do, but better. Favorite archetype is the older campaigner that's leading this group of newbies around so they don't die, then eventually garnering respect for them as they "prove themselves". I do my best to not make that as overbearing as that sounds. XD
It probably is. That's actually a really bad habit of mine, picking archetypes that are really super easy to fuck up, and would piss others off if I did. It's never a conscious effort, but when I really think back...I've done it a lot. Luckily, I'm always invited into the next game, so I HOPE I'm doing it right.
Just to change things up, you should try the Wide-Eyed newbie who lucks into the right decisions sometimes. It can be fun to just have your character be really enthusiastic about the whole adventuring thing.
The first time I tried out D&D 5e I played a half-ork barbarian with a pretty decent charisma score. She wasn't the party face, but she sure tried to fit into various upper societies to try and learn information (or to just not get the party into trouble). It was a lot of fun playing a brute that was attempting to not punch all her problems, and failing Charisma checks was often more fun and interesting than succeeding. XD
At some point I'd love to revisit that character.
At some point I'd love to revisit that character.
Our 5e kobold thief is an infinitely better mechanical diplomat than my 5e bird wizard. But at the same time, we have usually vastly vastly different dc's for our diplomacy.
He is playing true to kobolds, snarky, sometimes cruel, or cold, but he tells it like it is. He is the bad cop of diplomacy. He will insult you, belittle you, and 'he's not wrong or untruthful' through it all.
And everyone in our party has the moments we are very much opposites in social situations. The bird will be the foil to the dragonborn, our human to the bird even.
Everyone is together in how we play, but we each stand aligned apart, and respected for it.
The most difficult part of playing a guilefull character is when you have a DM who... isn't. You try and do the classic "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" and they have the NPC Mob Boss go "I've got scratching posts, honey. Cash. Now."
When the worst fear the GM put is... Something they liked to do with a previous character in the past. Any good story like that? As the GM let you take a look at the things someone liked in the past only to be shamed thinking "how could I liked this?"
Was this one scene the whole reason for having Rarity's player play Smolder?
Reminds me of a character I played in post-apocalyptic game. He was just called 'the Chairman' and he was an amoral snake that could talk his way out of anything. In a game where character death is commonplace he was the only one to survive to the end of the campaign. It helped that he wasn't particularly greedy or hateful. He just wanted to run his business and only caused trouble for people looking to interfere with it.