Being the "common unimportant adventurer" doing random treasure hunting is fun and all but it never gives me the same hype as being a very special guy with relevant ties to the major events in the setting.
>>96493857The best is starting out as the former and becoming the latter
>>96493868It takes a lot of time to do that and if you're not playing weekly it's a drag. More than once a campaign has just fizzled out before we can reach that point.
I'm sorry it doesn't "give you hype", and I hope you one day find either a game or improv activity that does "give you hype".
>>96493876If your campaigns are fizzling out before your average joes can grow into something with ties to the setting, starting as chosen ones won't help because the games will just fizzle out before you actually get to do what you were chosen for.
>>96494048Not really, the second type we usually end in 1-2 months of play, while the first type takes triple that, and that's if the GM feels generous.
>>96494071>3-6 months is a long time for a hobby with my friends once a week lolBoy, you will be legit happier and grow as a person if you learn about the differences between immediate gratification vs long term satisfaction and then cultivate that capacity.
What's wrong with being some random human male fighter?
>>96494155Not as fun as being a very special human fighter.
>>96493857>BeingYou aren't being them, you're playing them. Stop confusing reality and fiction.
Being a literal who that just pops up in an expensive and lived in fantasy world is underwhelming but you don't have to be the center of the universe to have a fulfilling session. Consider a campaign where the players are lesser nobles, inexperienced disciples of a noted arch mage or religious pilgrims all having ties to the world they inhabit while not being the literal centerpiece of the universe.
>>96493876Sucks to suck. My last campaign ran for three and a half years. Only missed a few sessions due to one player's mother dying of cancer.
>>96494372This isn't reddit. Stop taking minor semantics and blowing them up into an issue.
>>96495579O...kay?
>>96493857That's fine, OP. Everyone is different. Me, I enjoy starting out as a relative nobody instead of some 'chosen one' because it lets me build up my character's importance primarily through merit and I can take pride in every single accolade I collect, but I understand that's just a preference.
>>96494155You're basically a useless NPC. Your skillset is quite literally that of a low level NPC. Any low level NPC can hit things with a pointy stick. In 3.5 it's the NPC class because it doesn't actually have any unique features. It just gets more feats.>>96493857Campaigns need goals to move the players forward beyond "kill shit get loot". Even if they start as nobodies, the party should be viewed by the GM as inherently more important than any NPC. Even if their characters don't know it, those characters should be the linchpin to the conflict of the game. If they aren't, you've failed as a GM.>>96494372Semantics. Players PLAY the ROLE (ROLEPLAY) of their PCs. Ergo, to an extent, they are their PCs because their PCs cannot do anything without the players' direct control.>>96495903Except a chosen one isn't chosen unless they have merit. Also lol, the image you posted is literally a chosen one narrative.
>>96496333I know anon, that was the point of me posting that image, because of the discrepancy of that particular show's narrative attempting to pass off a "chosen one" type character as a typical average everyman through a ridiculously cheap trick via using the "randomization" feature to disguise how he is very blatantly designed after the default character model in the game. Doy.
>>96495683But dont you think hes SMART now? You can see his BIG BRAIN because of the pompous pedantry.
>>96493857> Tranime pic> Faggot trash opinion and postPeanut butter and jelly
>>96496529>because of the discrepancy of that particular show's narrative attempting to pass off a "chosen one" type character as a typical average everymanThat's just Japanese media in general. And, hilariously, what all the faggots on /tg/ who say they want to play LE AVERAGE HUMAN FIGHTER" actually want. They want the world to bend to their will, anyone who says they want to "succeed due to wits and grit" means "I want the setting to bend over backwards just to let me win even though as a glup shitto character I should be dead".
>>96496554Anon, what the fuck are you talking about?
>>96496549Enjoy doing the same copypaste dungeon crawl for the next ten levels, since that's as complex as your brain can handle.
>>96496554Further, that mindset is baked into the culture of tg itself. Look how many people run around decrying other people as normalfags like they are some chosen one NEET savior. Motherfuckers out here feeling smug because their social media website is slightly more niche than facebook. Shit is embarrassing for everyone involved.
>>96493857I play a normal guy who suddenly becomes tied to the major events of the setting
>>96493857You sound like a bad player with a worse GM and you probably suck each other off while smelling like absolute ass
>>96493857That's why you take the best of both worlds: you play a normal guy with relevant ties to the major events in the setting. Be a prince, a scholar, or a merchant lord. In a fight you'd probably lose, but you have the influence and know-how to sway the plot and change the setting.
>>96494155they're fucking boring to play
