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Have you ever let your ego creep into your character? Did it turn ugly, or did you manage to check yourself?
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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7522582" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>I don't know if this is in similar vein or not, but I used to play with a guy who for some reason, consciously or not, decided to "one-up" every PC I played by playing a PC with the same party role, but with lots of rules-tweaking to make the PC better. It was kind of obvious after a while: (1) I would create a PC, (2) he would get tired of the PC he was playing and retire them, and (3) a new PC was introduced that was the same or similar class, but optimized to do what mine did, even better. If I died, and created someone else, a few months later along came his new PC that was a better healer/spellcaster/frontline martial than I was.</p><p></p><p>To this day, I have no idea why he did this, or if maybe I pissed him off somehow previously, or maybe he couldn't settle on one single character idea and liked what I was doing. After a talk, he quit doing this, and all was well and never mentioned again, but it was hellaciously annoying while it happened, as if he was determined to do me better than I did me. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7522582, member: 158"] I don't know if this is in similar vein or not, but I used to play with a guy who for some reason, consciously or not, decided to "one-up" every PC I played by playing a PC with the same party role, but with lots of rules-tweaking to make the PC better. It was kind of obvious after a while: (1) I would create a PC, (2) he would get tired of the PC he was playing and retire them, and (3) a new PC was introduced that was the same or similar class, but optimized to do what mine did, even better. If I died, and created someone else, a few months later along came his new PC that was a better healer/spellcaster/frontline martial than I was. To this day, I have no idea why he did this, or if maybe I pissed him off somehow previously, or maybe he couldn't settle on one single character idea and liked what I was doing. After a talk, he quit doing this, and all was well and never mentioned again, but it was hellaciously annoying while it happened, as if he was determined to do me better than I did me. :) [/QUOTE]
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