@Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend yeah, first time DM too. apparently though he just does whatever to make it fun and like, lives and breathes d&d. dude spent like $2,000 on a 3d printer for it before he ever even started the campaign. all the characters are super OP with their own special traits and stuff, like there is one character with 4 arms and one with a robot arm that has enhanced capabilities. sounds whack to me. there's just no way to balance that or have intricate character moments man i'd get bored so fast.

@beardalaxy
God, I hate snowflake players. Why does no one want to do anything normal.
@MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend
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@Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend i think the expectation is super manageable, if you have a smaller group of players where everyone can actually have at least something interesting happen to them or because of them and have it be natural during the course of a single session. if you're trying to do that with 9 players though like, good luck man. i can only imagine the amount of personality clashing going on there with people who aren't as forward getting shunted to basically just a combat role and nothing else.

from what i know, the game is run in a way that players can drop in and out with little changing in the current quest, so yeah i'm assuming it's not very anchored. meanwhile the game that i ran fell apart because ONE DUDE didn't want to play anymore and the rest of them didn't want to play without him in that campaign >_>

@beardalaxy @Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend I once had a DM of a D&D 2e campaign that somehow managed to wrangle six players, with three characters each (that we had played over 3 separaate campaigns over the past years), and mash 18 PCs into one gigantic final battle against an evil god of his campaign. the guy was a master DM and I still send local people to him on occassion.

one of my characters was a female human psionicist, and another player remarked that ee thought of my character as looking like Dr. Girlfriend from Venture Bros because of my gravelly-ass voice. good times!

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @beardalaxy @Awoo @Groomschild @MK2boogaloo @SuperSnekFriend one of the most amazing character names in all of fiction is Dr. Mrs. The Monarch

@pcachu @Awoo @Groomschild @MK2boogaloo @SuperSnekFriend @beardalaxy my favorite is "Baron Grinnit" from the Carmen Sandiego mythos.

I love playing human man with sword characters.
It always leads to some insane shit

@Leaflord
Based.
@beardalaxy @MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend

@Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Leaflord @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend human fighter gets shit because it's basic but honestly it really can be the most interesting if the world is built right. in the first campaign i ever ran, we had a kalashtar, two aasimars, a super roided out human barbarian, and a regular old human fighter. that human fighter probably had the coolest story arc, he was consistently the weakest of the group and was the only one who died, but he was always leading the pack and calling the shots, super tactical, had the most to actually fight for, etc. His death even made him miss getting a powerful item that the rest of the players got, super inopportune timing, but he still kept fighting. it was really cool.

@Awoo @MK2boogaloo @Leaflord @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend there was one time where we say his "limit broke" because he rolled four nat 20s in a row and solo'd a mini boss on a single turn xD

@Awoo @beardalaxy @MK2boogaloo @Groomschild @SuperSnekFriend I play some goofy characters from time to time but even then it's all about flavor of my actions, not about having anything real crazy mechanically going on. Even when I was playing campaigns with absurd powerlevels my guy usually ended up forsaking the more powerful stuff I got for shenanigans I enjoyed more. I had a gnome get a gun that inflicted magic death and another that cast wish on fire and I still spent most of my time using my alchemist born extra arms (Pathfinder 1E is still my favorite DnD) to fire multiple normal guns per round alongside my portable cannon.