Your Doing It Wrong Syndrome
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Loony wins the thread.
Efficiency is fine and all, but offering help in the form of a command is rude, bigoted, and often more destructive than constructive. Rather, I find it far more refreshing to hear a player or DM say, "Hey, I see that you're trying to play X concept. Using Y might be helpful, just as a suggestion," allowing you as a player a polite means of either accepting the aid or graciously refusing.
Mechanical elitism is the bane of roleplaying.
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@Neolithic:
Loony wins the thread.
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Mechanical elitism is the bane of roleplaying.That, and that.
Give me a interesting character that is built interestingly instead of yet one more optimized clone who simply happens to wheeze instead of grunt. -
Yeah.
I like well roleplayed characters.
I also dont care if they are min/maxed.
Because one does not have any relation to the other.
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My barbarian took Lore and is actually pretty knowledgable about it Shrugs I don't see how your doing it wrong. I always like quirky builds. I have always tried to make my characters RP builds not Mechanical OP builds.
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The best thing you can do is take something that "Does not Work" and make it work.
For example, Rodon, who does not use any armor but only ever died once, and refuses to use any magic (as often as possible).
Dredo, who specialized fully in Necromancy (had every single spell of the school) and still reached the "Level Tin" club, while investing a lot of points into Intimidate.
Some games are unfortunately set on "This is the best path, do not take any other path". But in the case of NWN/Arabel and many other games you often have choice. Often you will not be penalised if you take a whacky route. But, bottom line, people have some expectations of you.
So, if you are a Cleric of Lathander people would expect you to heal. If you were a Paladin they would expect you to obey the Paladin code (unless you were fallen from grace). When you cross the "Sensibility" line that is when you might had gone too far. Such as… oh I don't know. A druid who refuses to "aid nature" entirely, and for no substantial reason.
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Because quirky, underpowered builds means you're a good RPer.
DMs will make items to accomidate this stuff nowdays anyway.
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@Broken:
Because quirky, underpowered builds means you're a good RPer.
DMs will make items to accomodate this stuff nowdays anyway
Not necessarily.
Quirky builds that entertain are fun. Sub-optimal builds where players take risks are also fun. Min-Max'ed builds that play both the Max and the Min characteristics and forgoe opportunity for coin, items and XP because of their build are fun to watch. All these have increased odds on receiving perks as they are observed by DMs, if the DMs are entertained or interested by the character.Min-maxed builds that form stereo types with little characterisation beyond a few grunts and screams of "Charge", or consistant hiding in the rear without other added forms of entertainment, are unlikely to thrill. These characters are fine if you wish to play them, but are less likely to see DM perks heading their way.
Fundamentally, anything that entertains or interests a DM may draw perks from that DM. Things that bore DMs will probably mean the DM looks elsewhere for fun. We're there to enjoy ourselves.
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Just play it your way and have fun my current character spouts bad poetry and behaves like a coward most of the time dosent stop me having fun with him.
And my poet/play write isn't a bard either. -
I'm doing it wrong, and I like it.
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People lulz at my builds all the time. I have fun with them. DMs have had fun with them (just not Abby). And that's all that matters. It's like Skyrim, there is no "wrong" kind of build. It's a "having fun" build.
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If you were a Paladin they would expect you to obey the Paladin code (unless you were fallen from grace). When you cross the "Sensibility" line that is when you might had gone too far. Such as… oh I don't know. A druid who refuses to "aid nature" entirely, and for no substantial reason.
I'd just like to point out that a Paladin not obeying the Paladin code is like a druid who sets a forest on fire because he wanted to do something funny while taking a break from poisoning a river.
If a druid who refuses to aid nature is over the line then a Paladin not obeying the code is definitely.