>adnd1e>player says "I want to play as Tom Bombadil-like">read Fellowship>peter jackson lied to me, what the fuck I didnt know the hobbits end up getting raped by ghosts>tom bombadil parts>tom bombadil is a goofy retard with a hot wife that lives in the middle of a forest and solves every problem the hobbits run into by singing into it like "doop de doop pee poop go away another day poof poof off you go" and it instantly obliterates a wraith that would have torn galadriel's soul into shreds>ring? i dont care this is gay ha ha ha have another delicious beer and pack your pipe this tobacco>off you go kidsHow in the fuck is this guy going to "play" Tom Bombadil with his level 1 Paladin?
>>98022916You're too illiterate to be running a game.
first off: all of that is good. If you're actually mad that Tolkien is being whimsical, you've outed yourself as a movies/video games fan, not a fan of Tolkien's works. How did you even get past all of the singing, retard?Anyway - if a player wants to act like a goofy retard let them. I had a chick in a game try to "hug" the zombies to make them realize they're friends. The zombies ate her. But, I let her do retardo shit.
>>98023252>>98023268Tom Bombadil is just Teehee Maccaroni for pretentious people.
>>980233595/10 baitmade me respond
>>98022916>How in the fuck is this guy going to "play" Tom Bombadil with his level 1 Paladin?He isn't, but you and he are too fucking retarded to know any better so it doesn't matter.Now, for those of you with IQs above room temperature measured in Celsius, a Bombadil-type PC/NPC can work in a game if the DM imposes one simple limit: the Bombadil-type only operates in a very fixed, relatively tiny, geographical area.In canon, Bombadil only travels as far west as Farmer Maggot's lands, as far east as Bree where he knows Barliman Butterbur, no further north than the East-West Road, and no further south than the confluence of the Withywindle and Brandywine rivers. Tom may be all powerful within that region but it's explicitly stated that if Sauron gets the Ring Tom is doomed. Tom also doesn't give a fuck about a great many things and quickly loses interest in most everything else.So, it's possible but it's also far beyond the understanding and abilities of both the OP and his player.
>>98022916who are you quoting?
>>98022916>>98023495>player says "I want to play as Tom Bombadil-like">retards think he's saying "I want to play as Tom Bombadil"
>>98022916>It's been [0] days since we had this threadYou broke a pretty impressive string of nobody reposting this shit, grab a special (You)
>>98022916Bombadil is more of a druid or, at most, a bard.
>>98023510>>retards think he's saying "I want to play as Tom Bombadil"Read much faggot?>the Bombadil-TYPE only operates in a very fixed, relatively tiny, geographical area.
>>98024310proof?
>>98024575Read the 2nd sentence in >>98023495 , The phras "Bombadil-type" is used twice in that sentence alone.
>>98023268>>98023252Go back to r*ddit
>>98023359Tehee MacaroniIs a merry fellow~Wears blue boots does heAnd his dick is yellow~
>>98022916>>98023510Basically this, he wants to be whimsical and wholesome and maybe defeat enemies by singing at them, tell him to play a bard or other spellcaster. Maybe explain that you can’t be all-powerful in D&D because it’s about plucky heroes who navigate dangerous places and sometimes they get killed, explain that the hobbits were the PCs and Tom is just typical gamemaster self-insert bullshit.Also make sure he isn’t talking about Rings of Power Bombadill (and kill him if he is).>>98023495You aren’t wrong though.>>98026059lol
>>98023359>Teehee MaccaroniWhy did you have to bring it up
>>98022916D&D aint that type of game.
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>>98026480He's the bane of my existence.
