I’m asking because the question the other day about silliest characters had a lot of funny comments.

Personally, I like to play as characters who are perpetually on the brink of fucking things up. Other players adore this, their PCs don’t.

As an example, a week ago, the party was being escorted by a noble to a fort, although the noble was lagging behind. My character (who was a kobold gremlin) announced her presence and demanded to be let in. The guard manning the gate asked how he could be sure that we hadn’t killed or kidnapped the noble. My kobold said “Isn’t the whole point of kidnapping to announce it and use it as leverage? Why would we be hiding it from you?” The party’s ‘dad’ quickly interjected that we had not kidnapped the noble, and that they were just around the bend. My kobold insisted to be let in, arguing “Just let us in, and if you need to arrest us for killing the noble, you’ll have us surrounded.” The party dad stared daggers at my character, and asked if she was deliberately trying to fuck things up. (the answer was yes, she had been slighted by the dad who did not let her be a gremlin) The dad asked the games to ignore everything my character had said, and the DM asked us to both do persuasion rolls. The other player rolled a nat one, and I rolled a nat 20. We both said “fuck.” At the same time, and he burst out laughing.

  • Aielman15@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    My go-to is either the city guard that is one week away from retirement and is really too old for this shit, or the local drunken guy who doesn’t understand a thing but is happy for you, or sorry that it happened.

    First one is for serious campaigns (although I like raising death flags for shits and giggles), the other one for one-shots I don’t care enough to entertain the story at anything more than surface level.