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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 154389" data-attributes="member: 1016">May I suggest Toon? The characters are designed to go "BOOM" and then be back up. I think these people who get their "heuck, heucks" off this style of play would love it.I feel for your brother. I just went through something just as moronic, and the DM's fix had a little more backbone to it. Let me explain -- no that would take to long, let me sum up.Scifi game, entire party was smuggling supplies to astroid miners behind a political barricade. We were busted by the Imperial Navy. As we were escorted to command carrier without a statement of charges (I had already asked). One player wanted to ask again, another player told him to leave the radio alone. A hand slapping match over the comm button went to knife, then sword, then a GRENADE in a game world where guns and ordience are illegal for citizens.I jumped out of the cockpit, and hit the "Eject" button on the cockpit module. After we were captured, the Grand Admiral invited us to dinner (GM's last chance to let us smooze our way out of our last supper) I smoozed the best and ended up with a One On ONe withe the Navy man behind close doors, but in front of the other players. The officer had this to say (read DM)"Join my intellegence divison as spys or face captial punishment for your crimes." I joined. Then he asked me to chose who should live and join me or die in my party. I admit I chickened out and said they all live. The grenade bozo, said I would regret that.  Next game, I saw that bozo had a new character and his old one is a NPC who is giving him greif.I don't like that you DM is being sneaky about this, but from what I gather is that you are a "Regular Role-Player" among a group of "Social Gamers." By social, I don't mean that they like to focus on the politics or courtly intrigue. I mean that the game is secondary to them hanging out. To them, DND is one step above TV, and Cartoon Network at that. I can almost see that when they create characters "spontaniously" they let the dice fall where they may and then sort of whip up a goofy character to amuse themselves with it. THe DM could create a whole long campiagn and the Players, not the PC wouldn't catch any of the clues. They are make the game session a parody of fantasy tropes and they know it. It can be fun sometimes.Personly, I'd still suggest Toon for these guys.</blockquote>

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