Sounds about right
My characters often end up exasperated by how idiotic and chaotic the other characters players are. That checks out.
“So the walls started bleeding, a thousand voices cried out in pain, and a sinkhole into the unseen depths opened in the kitchen.”
“Right.”
“And you, a normal human with no magical powers or special equipment, you jumped into the sinkhole.”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“It was there!”
“And then your character died, as one would expect from a hundred foot drop onto stone. And now?”
“I don’t understand. What else was I supposed to do??”
Ok, so, the trick is to make sure the NPC’s are the same way. That’ll really confuse the players.
Person jumps off a roof and splats in front of the party
player: “why did that happen?”
dm: “They had just purchased boots of flying from an untrustworthy source and figured this was the best way of testing them.”
Having the party run into a group of edgy adventurers is always a fun time.
Cue the scene in critical role campaign 1 where talesin PC (Percy)'s demon jumps our of his body and his party rolls initiative.
“We’re actually fighting my demons. My therapist would be so proud right now.”
“I am normally the DM”
“You either have trust issues or ADHD”
I only trust myself to show up to scheduled meetings.
Well, I don’t have trust issues…
Damnit, did you just diagnose me over the internet?
What if it’s both?
Goddamnit
Not mirrors but characters are the mirror to our soul :D
Soon, uhhhh, all of my characters are Idiots who’s names are puns for being stupid (lackman for instance).
Am the I dumb?
No, you are not. You just have bugles on your fingers.
I shall not provide a number for the times having bugles on my fingers has lead to munching my fingers as well. However, there may be a distinct possibility this has happened.
My main has an invisible ring of mind shielding, and is (still unbeknownst to the rest of the party) actually the possessed body of the person who killed me and stole my ring.
I just now realized I built my impostor syndrome into my DnD character.
I deliberately create characters which have an interesting dynamic with other player’s characters.
That either tells you nothing about me, or everything about me.
You’re either an Aquarius or a Libra.
Which one is cooler? Cause I’m that one.
Sir, this is serious business. Please take your absurd fantasies elsewhere.
Well, you sound like a team player. You place the common good (fun together) higher than individual ambitions (or maybe place your own worth very low, I can’t tell from one sentence, but the outcome is the same).
Saying deliberately sounds like it’s not just a thing that you find yourself doing again and again, but a conscious choice. That suggests there was a choice to make; that the option of playing a self-centered character was something you were actively aware of, but were sufficiently repulsed by it to make a point of being better than those people.
I think you’re a nice person, empathetic, while not so entirely innocent as to not even consider the possibility, still principled and caring enough to actively defy it.
I think you’re a net good for this world.
That is so kind of you to say. Thank you!
To put forth a counterpoint, they could be afraid to express their individuality and use team synergy as a (albeit positive) mechanism of avoiding that.
Hell, that makes me think of myself. I hate playing tank in mmorpgs because they’re always the leader in dungeons. They set the pace and have to keep aggro and proper boss facing and that’s a lot of pressure I don’t enjoy. I prefer healing because while still being a crucial and potentially stressful role, I’m not “in charge.”
We learning about ourselves today, huh?
I considered that option too, but opted to go with the more positive guess. I’m not qualified either way, I just wanted to say something nice.
Just providing discussion. I prefer your interpretation as well.
I appreciate that you took the time to supply the nuances I omitted. While there is value in a positive framing, it’s important to acknowledge potential struggles as well. We can’t effectively tackle issues if we’re not aware of them.
In any case, while I’m not qualified to help you with your difficulties, I hope you find - or have found - a way to work on overcoming them. Dealing with insecurities, from my own experience, can be a tough process, further amplified by setbacks and a lack of perceived progress. But if you persevere, even if you might not feel that you have improved much, you may find yourself looking back at a time when it was worse and, by contrast, see the progress you’ve made. May that hope, that your future self will look back and be proud of your hard work, give you the strength to keep going.
“Please stop!…I don’t like being seen”
I explained my fursona to my therapist.
It was
A fun time.
Well, what did they think?
A bard who invented the “unicorn vomit metal” genre, purely because I found a hilarious combination clicking random a bunch in BG3.
Yellow Slayer face paint with Harley Quinn cotton candy hairSometimes, especially in fun one-shot I prepare pretty wild pre-gen, and always think I hope a therapist won’t read these characters :)
My first character was a “muppet-born” named Ché-Elmo, who interacted with the group over video chat directly (a hand-puppet Elmo with a red star cap was all they saw and heard), and was a Warlock who had made a pact with the being Carl Marx in exchange for power. His tome of power was Das Kapital, which I’d have him leaf through while we played.
He went missing a few years ago; it’s my belief that he’s out there now in some other dimension still sticking it to every merchant he encounters.
Im unsure of Ché-Elmo is a reference or pun but the rest of that is gold
Lmao nice!
I’m terrible at coming up with backstories. I guess that means I don’t have any insecurities.
Can you remember the first time you felt insecure about your ability to come up with backstories? What was that like? And so on
Now consider, how would those insecurities look with elf ears? What about horns and a tail?
It’s honestly amazing. Art is so much a part of what we are, that it’s common and expected for someone to have written a coherent and insightful metaphor for their own life into their role in a fun make believe game.
But also, don’t talk to me, or my emotionally stunted, queer-coded, dissatisfied accountant, who quit his job to take up a life of crime, ever again!
