That one guy who insists on playing a Chaotic Evil character, no matter how (in)appropriate such a character would be for the campaign or not.
Y'all know at least one.
(I had a friend who kept playing Fish Malkavians, but thankfully he grew out of it and got better about integrating that kind of jokey character into the campaigns appropriately. Mostly by figuring out how to turn it down and not derail a campaign.)
Yeah, the only time I've seen Malks done well is when they kinda abandon the whole mental illness angle of the bloodline to focus on prophecy and being the Cassandra... things that fit in better with a supernatural horror setting.
I like that. Most Malk concepts I've seen end up being really cringe pop culture versions of dissassociative identity disorder, or just "I'm so random" fish malks.
I think it would have worked better if instead of saying they’re “mentally ill” they said they “embrace chaos” or something like that, they’re not really “insane” so much a s they’ve just embraced a different way of interacting with the world that makes them seem unhinged to everyone else.
That one guy who insists on playing a Chaotic Evil character, no matter how (in)appropriate such a character would be for the campaign or not.
Y'all know at least one.
(I had a friend who kept playing Fish Malkavians, but thankfully he grew out of it and got better about integrating that kind of jokey character into the campaigns appropriately. Mostly by figuring out how to turn it down and not derail a campaign.)
Ugh. Malkavians. Speaking as a mentally ill, it's not fun being mentally ill and most Malk players I've run in to don't really get that.
Yeah, the only time I've seen Malks done well is when they kinda abandon the whole mental illness angle of the bloodline to focus on prophecy and being the Cassandra... things that fit in better with a supernatural horror setting.
I like that. Most Malk concepts I've seen end up being really cringe pop culture versions of dissassociative identity disorder, or just "I'm so random" fish malks.
I think it would have worked better if instead of saying they’re “mentally ill” they said they “embrace chaos” or something like that, they’re not really “insane” so much a s they’ve just embraced a different way of interacting with the world that makes them seem unhinged to everyone else.