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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dontpunkme" data-source="post: 4661597" data-attributes="member: 17938">Yeah, he's pretty lousy with a warrior or rogue class too.  Kind of amazing that someone can play the same game for over a decade and still be that bad at it.  We've had to do things such as write "apply dodge bonus" on his character sheet.  Every one of his warriors always has power attack, yet he never uses it except for when a target has obscenely high AC.  If he's attacking a giant or some other notorious AC-deprived target, he won't employ it.  I think his major problem is he understands the rules, but forgets them when in play.  Between sessions, I typically will spend time going over rule intricacies, but during game he will act like its his first time playing.    I'll still never forget a campaign we were playing a few years back.  His character was on watch while the rest of the party was asleep.  An arrow comes out of the darkness with a piece of hide in the middle of it.  So the arrow is sticking out of the ground with a piece of hide (we were all savages and technology was very bronze age so paper hadn't been invented yet and papyrus wasn't available as we lived in the arctic).  He was utterly baffled by this and didn't know what to do.  So the DM at the time is trying to nudge him along that this is obviously a note affixed to an arrow without outright saying it.  He keeps getting progressively more ticked off.  The rest of the table is laughing at how upset he is that he doesn't know what this is.  Pictures are drawn, a demonstration is created by the DM with a pencil and a piece of paper shoved.  Still no idea.  I ask the DM if I can help him, he grants permission.  Knowing he is a huge Monty Python fan, my hint was "Message for you, sir."  Still no clue.  At this point we're all kind of laughing and he is getting more and more pissed off and is screaming and cursing.  I think that wasted several good minutes of game time.  Finally, when we all get frustrated enough at his incompetence the DM just outright tells him.  He wakes the rest of the party.  We're all relatively low level and the "note" was from a well-known frost giant ranger with a ton of class levels (read: CR 20+ as opposed to our maybe 4th level characters) and a friend of our clan.  We get to the dialogue and he wants us to attack the thing (it obviously has wealth and therefore we should go about acquiring said wealth because why would the DM put something on an encounter table if we weren't meant to kill it and claim its loot as our own).  Thank god we were able to talk him out of that one.</blockquote>

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