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Thread: Minimizing and Maximizing
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2007-10-11, 07:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimizing and Maximizing
And there are plot hogs too.
You don't have to gimp yourself to be a plot hog but ts a good starting point. Basically you derail your DM's campaign and push your own personal plot. f that cleric decided he was on a quest to find his faith again, okay? that will be something in the backburners. I hope you survive the way. But if the DM will have to rewrite his campaign to accommodate you, it's better off to kill you.
Honestly, plot hogs derail the campaign. Weak FLUFFY characters are the worst plot hogs.My mother says: those on fire should roll.
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2007-10-11, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimizing and Maximizing
Players in my group do this every so often, but in a non-disruptive way.
We generally play characters with reasonable levels of power/competence but sometimes a player will take a break by playing a weak character. This character is usually only played for a week or two; to add something extra to the story, as a comedy break, or to simply give the player a chance to have fun being useless for a while.
For example, if a player had a 8th level character die and would normally start a new 7th level character, they may ask the GM if they can play a low level Expert (say a guide) for a while before starting to play their new 7th level character.
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2007-10-11, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimizing and Maximizing
Well, that's not really a player gimping his character; that's a (presumably) decent character who suffered misfortune during the game and was weakened temporarily. It's no different really to a character getting cursed and the party sticking with him to help get it lifted. It's quite different to a player coming to the table at the start of a game with a character that just plain can't pull its weight in any regard (and being a nigh-useless combatant who has extremely useful out-of-combat abilities that will actually see the light of day during the campaign is pulling your weight, just to clarify), or having his wizard with 8 strength take Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Bastard Sword and Monkey Grip halfway through the campaign.
What always gets to me is the idea of playing one of those ridiculously focused charge-on-gryphon-back-for-MASSIVE-DAMAGE types, the (presumably) theoretical exercises who don't actually have near-infinite power, just an extraordinarily limited build that does precisely one thing well. Roleplaying a Batman wizard isn't that hard because it jibes with how you'd see a highly-intelligent, learned magic-user operating, but what realistic fighter would rely so much on one single tactic? I do wonder whether anyone actually tries to use those builds, misled by the fact that none of their stats read "high as you like".
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2007-10-11, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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Re: Minimizing and Maximizing
kamikasei, you are probably going to laugh a lot, but I have played a sorcerer with a monkey gripped sword (fullblade!) halfway through a campaign because the goliath fighter used one and slew a dragon (a weak one, but still, it was awesome) in a single hit. My character was impressed and decided to focus on his "elegant swordsmanship". He stayed a sorcerer, (I though about Eldritch Knight) for the remainder of the campaign, and refused to use his magic unless it was to boost his stats and swing his sword. I even had Tenser's Transformation cast on the sword so He could use his Cha modifier instead of Str for damage, but he was never able to hit anything exept a dire wolf and a bandit's horse. He was a great character, but nigh worthles in terms of power.
Also, the character in my sig (he's a homebrew warlock class I use) is a great RP character, but he can't do much unless it i for himself, and he is very weak even at low levels because of his vows.
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2007-10-12, 01:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Seoul
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2007-10-12, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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