He doesn't have that excuse, I let everyone look through the two setting books. I gave everyone a primer on the setting. Its not my fault if he didn't read it, (especially considering that he owns the setting books) and approached the encounter like something out of a video game instead of...
They kept the character with them, though he had a habit of splitting the party before and after that. Eventually the characters player left the group for unrelated reasons, he was dating another player, the lady who was playing as the battlemind and they had a falling out. His character stayed...
Traditional Games Discussion at Something Awful called me a grognard for this but i thought it was hilarious and a great "trap" to see if they were paying attention. I also arranged for this to happen when they were a few xp away from leveling so it was a sort of test to see if they were...
I just got done with running the latest session of my DnD 4E game and it was a doozy. (Yeah, I like the new edition, DEAL WITH IT!) We had two PC fatalities, with one of the players accusing me of being a killer GM.
Let me give some background. The campaign is set in my own spin on the Points...
I like my wizard, but he really needs his party to help, and that party really needs to have team players for his abilities to make the difference. I prefer the controller build. I don't even have Magic Missile and I am still competitve.
To illustrate what I mean about having a party of team...
Its no different than 3rd edition in this regard really. I routinely play characters who have values and attitudes that I do not believe in or agree with. I don't need a number to tell me how to do so.
I am sure that they will eventually release Dungeons and Dragons, Asperger's Edition that will carefully and in great detail describe rules for basic social interaction such that they need to be carefully adjudicated with rules.
New to the forums, sorry if this has been posted but I wanted to brag.
Ask me any question you want to know. I'm still going to buy them on release day since PDFs are pretty useless for casual reading in my opinion but I probably won't convert right away.