>Player whines about not having a major role in the story>He's playing a generic human fighterHow do you deal with players like this? I let already let him get drunk and pick fights when he visits taverns, what more do martial players want?
>>96766801Ugh I just ripped ass and it smells like a burning tire.
>>96766801What backstory did they provide?
>>96766801He chose to play a shitty game like D&D where a martial-caster divide is a thing. He has only himself to blame.
>>96766855>backstoryhe's playing a fighter. His backstory is he has a sword.
>>96766855probably >le farmer/orphan period no commasor something similar with generic character traits ripped straight from roll201 on 1 with him and offer an out by letting him make a new character. see if he takes it. Normally I’d say these players don’t actually want to roleplay but yours sounds upset that he isn’t able to.
>>96766801If the DM fails to provide a player with a simple background a major role in the story, that is entirely the failure of the DM, unless the player himself in the actual play session actively refuses to take up that roleyspsk>>96766873should be irrelevant for a decent DM that knows his shit
>>96766873Then there is the problem, you should have prompted him to provide more backstory.This can be remedied by having the player work on their backstory and then it can be incorporated into the story.
did you think people would believe this was real or join in attacking an absolutely imaginary issue?
>>96766801have you tried not playing dnd?
>>96766801Generic Straight White Male Human Fighter is literally the best character you can play. Go be gay somewhere else.
>>96766801>How do you deal with players like thisHello, newfag GM.The answer is simple: you find a new player.> what more do martial players want?But he's not a martial player. He's "dunno, whatever" player. For that's the motivation for making human fighters - not really wanting to bother with sitting through char gen and making easy option>hurr tiefling lesbian playerNigger, making a human caster takes effort. Making a human rogue takes effort. Even human barbarian takes minimal effort.You want to know what doesn't?Human fighter.It's the "I don't care" pick.And if they can't make on their own sword and board interesting for themselves, it means they should be booted long time ago.
>>96766801>no details about story or characterThere's probably some way to work it in, just handwave some part of his lineage and boom, hes beset upon by people trying to snuff out his bloodline or whateverIf he's playing generic sword man, I doubt he really cares about having the most well crafted story, he just wants to be important
>>96766894>Human fighter PC>having backstoryNigga, are you by chance even more new than OP?
>a characters importance must come from his backstory, not from the deeds and choices he makes during playHOLY ngmi, get the fuck out of this hobby immediatly
>>96766866>>96766901Man, this troll just doesn't take a break.
>>96766931>he just wants to be importantThat requires interaction with the game, thou.Not with backstories or similar, but simple player engagement. Going by OP, there is no such thing going, so - no point bothering with the player in the first place.
>>96766801Something tells me this was edited. Anyone have the original?
>>96766939>Thread by newfag GM, with newfags replyingHow is their ineptitude even remotely surprising?Also: OP already said that the player isn't interested in pulling deeds, player just wants to be important.
>>96766801Make him have a nemesis from the game. For example a mercenary that's piss off with him for taking the loot or the glory and now has decided to fuck the party out of pure spite.
>>96766941"Have you tried not paying D&D" has been a response on this board for nigh on two decades. Lurk moar.
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>>96766897You tried anon. Pearls before swine
>>96766966I’m surprised this wasn’t a “i fucking hate white people” webcomic. It sure is drawn like one
>>96766801I'd say "Have you considered talking to him to find out what he's hoping for", but that implies either of you even considered wanting to solve the issue rather than bitch about it.
>>96766944>interaction with the gameYou mean the DM, who controls the game and is a human being who should be able to out-think his playersEveryone starts somewhere and 9/10 times that first seat at a tabletop game is going to be at a DnD table, especially with it getting more popular recentlyWhats just as likely to be happening here is the DM is just as new and uninspired as the human fighter PC, so he just goes 'uhhh idk when we get to a bar you can challenge someone and roll more damage dice', then instead of using his human brain to make the game funner he just blames the game and his players for not being inspired by that
>>96766959It's been a shitpost spammed by retarded trolls, and only retarded trolls have ever spammed it.
>>96766941as generic as that response is, it’s completely warranted here. lvl 1-3 fighters are fucking boring and the gameplay is limited to “I run up and hit the badguy with my stick”
>>96766801This didn't happenThis doesn't happen
>>96767006Does anything ever happen?
>>96766988To add, if the DM has been letting this guy get into random barfights for however many sessions, every one of those fights was a wasted opportunity to put a target on the fighters back and start getting him some interaction with the world outside of the party, instead he wasted every one of those opportunities to pull the fighter into some kind of plot device and then got mad about it like it was the fighters fault
>>96766988>No, I don't play games nor ever run one, how could you tellNigga, it's 2025, what's your fucking excuse you are still theorycrafting about hobby you never participated with and regurgitating 30+ yo bullshit?
>>96767005Troll, you're so fucking off base that it's insulting that you think anyone could actually take you seriously when you switch into "N-n-no, pwease take me sewiously" shitposting mode when you get called out as being a troll.
>>96767016>I am a DM who relies entirely on my players being more interesting than meSee I can greentext to moron
>>96767011No. Nothing ever does.
>>96767018???
>>96767028Shame you’re posting here then since nothing happened or happens ever.
>>96766988>when we get to a bar you can challenge someone and roll more damage diceSaying shit like this is the only way to get the average martialfag to look up from his phone.
>>96767077If anything happened I‘d be there, I wouldn’t be here.
>itt: virgins mald over human fighter chads
>>96766959It used to be reserved for when the OP actually mentioned d&d
>>96766941D&D is boring as piss and playing a martial makes it even worse. Call it "trolling" all you want, but the fact is that modern D&D is slop marketted to retard normies who don't even actually PLAY the games they buy.
>>96767190Here, grab a you, given it's your third post begging for those
>>96767020>I can put the most random things in greentextThat's not how you use those, thou.So clearly - you can't
>>96766801>Being a non-fighter>Getting any spotlightLmao nogames.
>>96767224Didn't ask.Just pointing out how that troll loves to shitspam all the time.
>>96767274OK, retard.
>>96767271>No, I don't know that DnD is a caster-dominated game for past 24 years, for I don't play
>>96767281You've accurately described most 5e players. Unironically.
>>96767286Point taken
>>96767281There are plenty of impactful ways to play a martial, the archetype itself just doesn't really appeal to thinking types.
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>>96766966>actual, unironic facebook "joke"grim.
>>96766971>>96766966>>96766801The beard guy is right in all of these.
>>96767492Pat from sbfp is always right
>>96766801incel-coded OP
