I get kind of iffy when someone wants to play the strong, silent type. That usually means they want to focus more on combat, which is the part about tabletop RPGs that I am least interested in. Same with any kind of powergaming really. I'm not pissed at any person for finding joy in looking for ways to maximize their character's combat potential. It can be fun to play around with numbers and try to find ridiculous combinations that do weird stuff, and I don't begrudge anyone that fun. But when it comes to actually playing, this pretty much means that these players are trying to maximize the part of the game I enjoy the least, so it goes in my list of pet peeves.
Oh, it's not impossible to do well, just a bit of a red flag that this player may be looking for a different kind of game than me. I guess it's when the player wants to be silent I don't like it. Sometimes you will get someone who wants to play a bodyguard kind of character that just stands by and pretty much does nothing until combat starts. I hate that. Someone doing a lot of body language is engaging with the group and participating in a way that I think would be fun.
This is something that I’ve sorely missed since moving to online gaming because of covid/people moving. Hamming it up with body language and overacting doesn’t translate to a tiny window in the corner of a screen
I get kind of iffy when someone wants to play the strong, silent type. That usually means they want to focus more on combat, which is the part about tabletop RPGs that I am least interested in. Same with any kind of powergaming really. I'm not pissed at any person for finding joy in looking for ways to maximize their character's combat potential. It can be fun to play around with numbers and try to find ridiculous combinations that do weird stuff, and I don't begrudge anyone that fun. But when it comes to actually playing, this pretty much means that these players are trying to maximize the part of the game I enjoy the least, so it goes in my list of pet peeves.
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Oh, it's not impossible to do well, just a bit of a red flag that this player may be looking for a different kind of game than me. I guess it's when the player wants to be silent I don't like it. Sometimes you will get someone who wants to play a bodyguard kind of character that just stands by and pretty much does nothing until combat starts. I hate that. Someone doing a lot of body language is engaging with the group and participating in a way that I think would be fun.
This is something that I’ve sorely missed since moving to online gaming because of covid/people moving. Hamming it up with body language and overacting doesn’t translate to a tiny window in the corner of a screen