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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 4576635" data-attributes="member: 99">I think that overall I'm an excellent player.  Any group would be lucky to have me! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm not without a few faults however:I suffer from the some of the problem that others have mentioned with GMs.  I never second guess a firm decision by the GM of the moment but, if they ask my advice, I tend to be more in touch with opinions of "the gaming community at large" and the various rules interpretations found therein.  Also, I'm only able to sublimate my desire to GM for about 6 months or so before it becomes pretty strong and I'm ready for the current campaign to end and get back in the GM chair.  Luckily I've been able to battle this bit by a combination of very fun characters, good GMing by my counterparts and venting my desire to run games at GenCon and the NC Game Days.My other fault comes in the form of me being not only a Tactician, but also a Strategist.  This manifests itself first by me being incapable of playing a stupid character for an extended period (I find it refreshing and very fun to play them in one-shot games).  But it also sometimes leads me to come up with (sometimes elaborate) plans to get maximum reward for minimum risk.  Like if we need to recover a stolen artifact from some bad guys in a warehouse, the GM expects us to kick in the door and fight the bad guys and take back the artifact.  I will instead suggest the idea of setting the warehouse on fire, retreat, cast some kind of fire resistance magic, wait for the bad guys to escape the burning building and then teleport in and grab the artifact without ever fighting the bad guys.It's kinda cool coming up with these ideas but it leads to sessions where we spend too much time planning and too little time executing.  And the worst thing that can happen to us is that we're successful because we as players would have had more fun just kicking in the door and fighting.I've been able to curb this tendency a lot in more recent years and adopt more of a "A simple plan NOW will be a lot more fun that an elaborate one that takes us an hour to hash out.  Let's just GO!" attitude.  I sometimes slip a bit though and fortunately, most of the time, the GM helps me out by saying, "You set the warehouse on fire.  Moments later you see the Bad Guys escaping on foot, carrying the Artifact."  Then we battle them in the streets rather than not battling them at all but the fact that we flushed them out of the warehouse means they don't have whatever prepared defenses available to them.  This means that my plan gave us an advantage, which makes me happy, but it doesn't circumvent the fun of the combat, which also makes me happy.</blockquote>

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