>try to play a character who is good at things other than fighting FOR ONCE>get ganked within a session or two
Were you playing with a system specifically designed for combat, or with combat as one of its major challenges?If so, you brought it on yourself.
>>98157284Is this the third time we had this exact thread? Same picture and everything?>How good a non fighter is depends on the GM>\thread
>>98157776At least, yeah. The thread will likely be deleted now that it's been pointed out. We might also cop bans.
>>98157284Last time I get banned for Puckee. Now everybody get banned to pointing out ibvious spam?
>>98157284>He actually showed up to the 'definitely not an ambush' meeting in the abandoned factory and had a surprised look on his face when he got ganked by a dozen shovelheadsnothin' personnel cammy, next time put some points into intelligence.
>>98157776>>98157749>>98158225It was Legend of the Five Rings this time.
>>98157284>try to play a detective character>realize you're in a high magic fantasy combat setting
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>>98158491i'd watch an anime about japaneseMonk getting isekai'd into generic fantasy world.
>>98158491>high magic fantasyNo it isn't
>>98158491If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
>>98157284>GankedAnother player killed you while you were peacefully out questing and did not expect it?
>>98157776He loves the word "ganked"
>>98162575Where does it even come from?
>>98162584Video game, >>98160434 defined it pretty succinctly.
>>98157284This is why I do my best to either separate combat ability and non-combat ability entirely during chargen in my systems, or otherwise provide enough chargen resources to invest max into your combat ability and still have points left to invest into one or two non-combat abilities. I take the New Vegas approach basically, where the best play is to pick one combat and two utility skills, though not exactly one to one.Basically, play games that don't pidgenhole you into either being good at combat or being good at non-combat.
Can your character really be considered smart if they can't even make a pipe bomb?
play call of cthulhu 20sbe a librarian and have psychology and fast talksave the campaign
>>98165505nogame post
>>98157284What game?
>>98165523>>98158395
>>98163193I am a fan of grid-based tactical systems that do their best to fully silo combat abilities and noncombat abilities, like Strike! 1e and 2e (and the Tailfeathers/Kazzam spinoff) and Tom Abbadon's ICON.
