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[hops]

Lovely mary sues in roleplaying games. "Oh, you guys are all average joes? Well, my guy s a genus inventor, who can do anything with any mechanical, electrical, or even theoretical thing out there! They also are brilliant at dodgeing shit, are able to organize the US army with just their fingers, and can convince ISIS members to become jewish!"

This is the reason I try to avoid freeform roleplaying games in favor of games with defined rules. D&D and such. It's much harder to be a Sue/Stu when mechanics-wise you're roughly about as competent as everyone else

You clearly haven't met a munchkin.

[Sirus]

Lovely mary sues in roleplaying games. "Oh, you guys are all average joes? Well, my guy s a genus inventor, who can do anything with any mechanical, electrical, or even theoretical thing out there! They also are brilliant at dodgeing shit, are able to organize the US army with just their fingers, and can convince ISIS members to become jewish!"

This is the reason I try to avoid freeform roleplaying games in favor of games with defined rules. D&D and such. It's much harder to be a Sue/Stu when mechanics-wise you're roughly about as competent as everyone else

You clearly haven't met a munchkin.

That's a different but equally-aggravating problem >.>

Thankfully I don't see them often.

[Aseaheru]

What are those?

[Xantalos]

People who exploit the hell out of quirks in the rules to get overpowered characters.

[hops]

It's even worse when said munchkin attempts to roleplay.

[Fniff]

There's nothing more annoying in a roleplay then having a Mary Sue player try to convince you to make his character specifically more overpowered mechanically then other players because it's more realistic, since his dude is a special forces operative.
Notice how everyone else but you is playing an ordinary person.

[EnigmaticHat]

Just lost something like an hour of work because Windows 8 is a bitch.

Its one thing to have Chrome freeze, which happens semi-regularly.  Its another thing entirely to have the core system processes that run the taskbar, let me bring up task manager to kill processes, and ask me if I want to kill locked up process, freeze as well.

[KingofstarrySkies]

It's even worse when said munchkin attempts to roleplay.

BUT

OLD MAN HENDERSON

[Xantalos]

Henderson wasn't a munchkin. Munchkins pretend to play by the rules.

[EnigmaticHat]

It's even worse when said munchkin attempts to roleplay.

BUT

OLD MAN HENDERSON

That player was explicitly trying to ruin his GM's game.  It wasn't about winning.

[Flying Dice]

It's even worse when said munchkin attempts to roleplay.

BUT

OLD MAN HENDERSON

That player was explicitly trying to ruin his GM's game.  It wasn't about winning.

It was, just a different and infinitely more satisfying sort of victory.

[Furtuka]

I forgot to do my online homeowkr assignment today for my worst class. Someone please just knock me out, im too upset to sleep. I feel like i want to cry

[hops]

Henderson wasn't a munchkin. Munchkins pretend to play by the rules.

Actually, Old Man Henderson was a subtype of a munchkin.

The Troll: This player isn't there to have fun with others - he or she is there to have fun at the expense of others. In a role playing game, they'll make the most disruptive character they can and cause as much havoc as they can, even at the expense of the other players (which isn't the same as the other Player Characters). They'll excuse bad behavior with, "I'm just playing my character!" In a competitive game, they'll use a mix of Metagamer and Gamebuster tricks along with the above until no one is having fun. The Troll will take smack-talking way beyond any level the group is comfortable with until tempers flare. The only solution for these Munchkins is to tell them how the other players feel, then show them the door if they don't change.

Although the GM and the players were amused by him, so who knows.

[EnigmaticHat]

IRRC he justified his behavior by saying that he was doing it in revenge for some things the GM did that he didn't like.

[Gentlefish]

Also the other players were having a blast.

I mean, the basterd hijacked a helicopter and dropped it onto a cultist frigate.