8. Whatever lets me create the biggest explosions

Haha, yeah, the fact that I played almost exclusively women and my few masculine characters still often had more feminine features and mannerisms was totally just to challenge myself. Never a subconscious exploration of my deepest desires.

Says the now VERY out and proud about it transwoman.

I’ve done too many of these. I tend to fall on 1 often though.

Missing:

• god-like powerful magical being, masquerading as Just Some Dude
• Most boring, generic build available in the system, played ironically

Also missing: pure random-roll character who makes no sense and contributes nothing other than needing to be rescued a lot.

One I did was “joke character who ended up being very serious.”

From the title I thought this was going to be about personal computers and upon opening the image I was very confused for a second.

No, I don’t look at what community the post is from when I’m scrolling all.

I have done all of these except 13

• 2: Conall. I played a loud and boisterous bard with bagpipes specifically because I intended on drinking a lot of whisky and not bothering putting on an accent other than my natural one during the one shot

• 3: Kairi. Paladin who was built to make everyone around her as invincible as she was.

• 5: Pech.I played a Pathfinder 2e one shot as a fairy barbarian that I specced into being able to carry a human-sized greatsword. He was more functional than I expected he to be

• 6: I swear the amount of kenku I play is not a furry thing I swear

• 8: Morgan. This one was Lancer rather than D&D, but look up the Death’s Head frame from Lancer and you will immediately understand why I picked it when I wanted to be able to simply point at a thing and decide that I did not want it to be there any more

• 12: Absolutely the mischief-making rabbitfolk rogue who once opened a locked door by throwing a bag of spices over a rhino to annoy it and dodging aside when it charged him

• 15: Whistle. Whistle is a monk who grew up under a villain and had his world view shattered when an adventuring party took said villain down. He now travels with his new friends earnestly attempting to un-learn his awful ways. He is visually an emaciated scruffy kenku wearing rags

Where does the “ridiculous minmaxed character to game the mechanics” fit in? We had a miner/scribe once.

Also missing from the list is the horny bugger. It doesn’t matter who or what it is, if it’s near them, they’ll try to seduce it

#5 is always fun. Especially when I accidentally become #1

Can you guess what is the basic flaw for me in AD&D, which eventually led me to walk away from it? How the game builds up expectations for the player.

The average person just flips open a player’s book, a monster manual or some other tome on the game lore and instantly the person thinks their character will be, from the start, like the model characters they’re reading upon, which they never will or even can be, as the game does not permit it, in my understanding and experience.

As a player, it was extremely frustrating to handle DMs that expected a newbie mage/ranger/fighter/whatever to take risks as if they were seasoned veterans and had high capabilities from the start. That is nonsense.

No class in AD&D is (or was; I speak from years of distance) capable of great feats from the get go, as the way the characters are built forces a level 0/1 into basically discarding any capabilities a trained individual into a specific profession would already have. It would be better to just say the characters are slightly above average commoners.

As a DM, I was quick to get fed up with players that wanted to pull stunts that would be barely feaseable to high level characters/professionals, regardless me going through the basics as I did above.

People are idiots but the game was set up by morons and others just tried to build on top of it to improve it, with mixed results at best.

One of my favorite characters I’ve ever had fits perfectly into #15. She was a tiny goblin that was on a quest to collect as many skulls as possible and had a sheep that she won in a contest as her steed. (She was about 2.5 feet tall and the rest of the party was human-sized or larger, so I had to roll endurance checks to keep up with them sometimes if we were traveling a long distance.)

Missing

• The didn’t listen when the GM talked about Theme and mood and end up with a character who doesn’t fit with the party/canpaign

• The traitor, you know the Scorpion/Tremere who will betray the party at every possible occasion and stab any PC showing their back

-The hero, who feel like their main character

• The anti hero, in general their player use all the possible flaws (and therefore built a strong character) A one eyed, alcoholic single parent with a deadly enemy, but they can shoot a coin at 1000m, so feels like they’ll have again to do the job rather than staying home.

And many more