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Tactics are great, it's like a team sport (weird I know) you do your part and hope that others do theirs.
Constantly bossing everyone around isn't kosher (even if you're the warlord). A swat team would be good but who is willing to do all that training? It must be hard sometimes when you've thought your move through all the variables and future probabilities, only to have the fighter throw his sword and lay prone even after a couple people at the table suggest it's not best.
But he's playing the game too, if he's not just being a jerk that is. So do the best you can, offer advice rarely and softly, and talk tactics when not in combat.
Sometimes:
The defenders hold the enemies’ attention, the strikers damage targets without being hit, leaders make the rest of the group better at what they do, and controllers make life infuriating for enemies.
Sometimes not:
Defender: Well I'm the fighter so I hit a soldier *boom* take that!
Armchair: No don't do that you need to mark the boss to hold his aggro.
Defender: You said it’s better to not be outnumbered, 'side I already rolled.
Armchair: Okay but we've gone over this before, lock on to the BBEG and hold him till we clear the rif-raf.
Striker: Yeah this is how you do it! *Skadoosh* against the BBEG. Drat I just miss.
Armchair: If you just waited a round Defender could have provide you with flanking there.
Controller: That's okay because the best part about being a wizard is doing massive damage to a single target. I hit the BBEG, Huzzah!
Armchair: Right, let's just talk strategy for a moment. I think that wha..
Leader: While I agree with you, we're in the middle of combat let's just do this thing, after all with a role like Leader I should be the one making plans eh? *wink*.
Everyone: You need to buff me.
Leader: I'm taking a glory moment here and am buffing myself; I'll tank the BBEG so that everyone can do what they want.
Armchair: *sighs/rollseyes/rollsdice* You see?
DM: That's right everyone can do what they want, including the beasties, it's their turn now bwahaha. But we have to wrap this up; man did this fight go on didn't it?
Constantly bossing everyone around isn't kosher (even if you're the warlord). A swat team would be good but who is willing to do all that training? It must be hard sometimes when you've thought your move through all the variables and future probabilities, only to have the fighter throw his sword and lay prone even after a couple people at the table suggest it's not best.
But he's playing the game too, if he's not just being a jerk that is. So do the best you can, offer advice rarely and softly, and talk tactics when not in combat.
Sometimes:
The defenders hold the enemies’ attention, the strikers damage targets without being hit, leaders make the rest of the group better at what they do, and controllers make life infuriating for enemies.
Sometimes not:
Defender: Well I'm the fighter so I hit a soldier *boom* take that!
Armchair: No don't do that you need to mark the boss to hold his aggro.
Defender: You said it’s better to not be outnumbered, 'side I already rolled.
Armchair: Okay but we've gone over this before, lock on to the BBEG and hold him till we clear the rif-raf.
Striker: Yeah this is how you do it! *Skadoosh* against the BBEG. Drat I just miss.
Armchair: If you just waited a round Defender could have provide you with flanking there.
Controller: That's okay because the best part about being a wizard is doing massive damage to a single target. I hit the BBEG, Huzzah!
Armchair: Right, let's just talk strategy for a moment. I think that wha..
Leader: While I agree with you, we're in the middle of combat let's just do this thing, after all with a role like Leader I should be the one making plans eh? *wink*.
Everyone: You need to buff me.
Leader: I'm taking a glory moment here and am buffing myself; I'll tank the BBEG so that everyone can do what they want.
Armchair: *sighs/rollseyes/rollsdice* You see?
DM: That's right everyone can do what they want, including the beasties, it's their turn now bwahaha. But we have to wrap this up; man did this fight go on didn't it?
