>"Hey DM, I want to play a Human Fighter">"Backstory? He fights to make money, I guess">"Why not start a business? I don't know"What do you do?
>>98222272I can work with this. I wish he had 3 friends who would also play human fighters so I don't have to think about any magical faggotry and we can enjoy comfy low fantasy setting with plot revolving around solving a bandit situation in a fuckoff village somewhere 2 weeks away from nearest city.
>>98222296Bandits in a low-fantasy setting?
>>98222272If they refuse any of the obvious suggestions for a backstory>basic merc in need of work>former soldier who knows no other life>guardsman>farm hand who was kicked out of town for starting too many brawls in the pub and is trying to make a name for himself to win back his girl who didn't like how he'd get in fights at the pub and come back all bruised, so he swapped his pitchfork for a halberd and took an adventuring gig, but at night when the party is sitting at the fire he still thinks about his girl.you know, the usual backstoryies.If he refuses those then he's a prisoner. He's nothing but a fighter? That got him into trouble with the law. And now he serves the king taking dangerous missions with a guarsman escort who might be another player or might be an NPC.If you have no backstory one will be thrust upon you.
>>98222332Go fucking die somewhere pucktard piece of shit
>>98222272>never heard of bounty hunters beforeWhat are you, 12?
>>98222272Who are you quoting?
>>98222272"I rolled 7 int, 6 wis"System? Well, AD&D2e because I'm an alpha white male.
I would give him an opportunity to make money. Easy. I don't know why you fucking faggots are making this so hard. You spend half your lives IRL trying to make money, why is it suddenly such an issue when it shows up in your tabletop RPG that also centers around money in a lot of cases, getting lots of gold to buy a cool +4 vorpal scimitar, or buy a castle, or land, or something else. That's pretty much what life is about. I mean yeah he can develop some more depth to his character later, but that's the basic motivation of most people. Oh no, did someone not make a super angsty tiefling bard who plays an electric guitar in a medieval fantasy setting and is also gay and hires gay prostitutes like le epic Scanlan from Critical Roll? What a tragedy. /tg/ loves to whine about both ends of the "annoying character spectrum" but they never actually talk about what characters they play, and when they do it's usually some quirk chungus bullshit that just ends up being annoying. So what room do you faggots have to criticize?
>"Hey DM, I want to play a Human Fighter">"Okay"
>>98222642I would ask them "why do you want to hold the party back"?
>Backstory? A librarian and scribe from a major port city>A librarian?>Yes, a librarian.>And his motive?>Finding, securing, and copying books across the land so they they are not lost to time.>Not money? Glory?>MFW>Backstory?>A bounty hunter who specializes in hunting down and executing slavers in an extrajudicial manner.>But he's Lawful Evil.>Doesn't mean he supports slavery, he has standards, one of them being rewarded for the sweat off your back.>But slavery is legal>So? He's also evil, and under his own interpretation of order, enslaving others is worthy of being executed where you stand since such laws circumvent laws around kidnapping, false imprisonment, and so on.>How can he be lawful evil if he frees slaves?>Because he literally maims and mutilates slavers, leaves them nailed to walls facing east, hangs them from the nearest tree as a warning to others along well-tread roads, torches businesses that use slaves, and considers even mopping the floors at a slave auction house to be worthy of being thrown into a rat-filled oubliette unless you prove your worth by handing over a few slaver scalps>That's more Lawful Good>MFW
>>98222272Guild are a bunch of hoarders that ban you from starting a business without an entry fee.
>>98222702Yummy yum, anti-union propaganda is delicious!
>>98222708Cry about it commie faggot
>>98222711Mmm! Yummy anti-union slop! Yum! Okay I only have a ten minute break since I'm one minute shy of being entitled to two 15-minute breaks! Back to work! Oh no, I got a pay deduction for eating at my desk, and now I'm being written up for discussing pay!
seething commie LOL
>>98222724You also don't get paid for that 59 minutes because you didn't work the full hour.
imagine being so mad about your shit life you make up fanfiction about other people LOL
>>98222272I treat him like the NPC he wants to be. If all he wants to do is basically be a hireling for the actually cool and interesting members of the party, he can be.
>>98222272why do these posts always just not do the most obvious thing a DM can do and just, you know, suggest things to the playeralso, even the dumbest, uncreative players will respond at least semi-earnestly to the questioneven if its something like "he is just a mercenary", which is the most straightforward and unoriginal, but still perfectly serviceable, reason as to why swordguy number 1000 would have a reason to think hitting things with swords would be a path to riches
>>98222272>>"Hey DM, I want to play a Human Fighter"Okay>>"Backstory? He fights to make money,Okay>I guess"Red flag
>>98222272Why are you seething so badly, OP?
>>98222332Wow, that fucking sucks.
>>98222272If I'm a DM in this hypothetical, and I ask for a backstory for some reason, that hypothetical me is already a different enough person to do any number of possible things as a result.
>>98222332>puckee aka redditor pucke℮21 spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/sz4v45/simon_sevencoppers_fantasy_medieval_dd_bandit_art/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/ZhTzBHkDSXcl13pCikfLvw/>107 times since February 2022
>>98222272I tell him to roll for that character, because that 18 Str and 16 Dex and Con looks fucking fishy
>>98222272The requirements for background were very clearly outlined in the handout I gave him when he was invited. If he didn't follow those requirements, he's tacitly RSVP'd "no."
>>98222272Sounds like a Gladiator.Would the rest of the party want to play a Gladiator campaign? I don't know, OP, would they?
>>98222676There is argument for both of these being LE and LG.frankly the best way to see it is thi is straight LN as this is being the quintessential good samaritan, doing good onto those who need it andcommittng evil against those who deserve it. I for one think this is a neat character concept.
>>98222272Aight sweet a mercenary I can work with that. Legit all you do is just give them contracts and rewards for them fulfilling said mercenary contracts.
>>98222659What, you WANT your players to powergame? You don’t want them to roleplay?
>>98222724>words words words but nothing to sayClassic college age marxdrone post
>>98222272Then let him, see what he does with it. A good player takes that background and makes something out of it. I had a player who wanted to play a half orc fighter that just fights for money. I said alright, and the player came back to session one with a grizzled mercenary who views the world in a cynical gold-for-blood kind of way. I frequently rewarded the group RP xp simply because of how well that player leaned into the role. Made me think of Marv from Sin City, but without the crippling insanity, and a lot more interested in coin.And a bad player cannot be made to make interesting characters. No matter how special, unique or in depth his character is made from the start, he will inevitably play it like a stat block with variables he wants to increase, with no RP outside of what bonuses he can get. You can't make a good player bad, or a bad player good. That's up to them.
>>98222272>businessHe's not a businessman, he's a business, man
>>98222272I wouldn't play with him, human fighter or half-troll-tri-kreen wizard/rogue. I need the person to AT LEAST know the difference between a background and a motive.But as a motive, that's fine.
>>98226448I expect players to do things that are a bit more involving then "I attack" every turn
>>98222724I agree with what you say but guilds aren't really unions. They're more like cartels. The "businesses band together to artificially inflate prices," ones, not the drug dealing ones.
>>98226463More slop for me boss! Oh it's coming out of my pay? That's alright, you're 20c cheaper than the supermarket!
