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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6646297" data-attributes="member: 5143">I enjoy gaming most for the story and the chatter around the table.&nbsp; To me, it's always been like watching a movie with a bunch of friends and making mocking comments throughout the whole thing.&nbsp; Sometimes we get to make some decisions to steer the direction of the story and sometimes we get to grandstand by talking in a funny voice and &quot;inflicting&quot; our character's personality on everyone else.I'll continue to have fun doing that regardless of whether he is there or not.&nbsp; In fact, given that most of the time he sits there at the table saying almost nothing at all is precisely what makes it just fine.&nbsp; I pretend he isn't there and he laughs at my stupid jokes.&nbsp; To me, is isn't the cause of my fun but he isn't much of a hindrance most of the time.&nbsp; When he pulls crap like this it makes me frustrated.&nbsp; So, yes, I vent by making a post about it.But I show up because of the joy or roleplaying out the stupid situations we've come across.&nbsp; We're making up new characters for our Sunday game because a mutual friend of ours, Dave, is becoming our new DM.&nbsp; He is going to run Princes of the Apocalypse for us.&nbsp; It'll be me, my roommate, Mr. Tantrum, his gf, and 2 more mutual friends.Our DM is running the game in Eberron and we've all gotten together to make up characters already.&nbsp; His gf has decided that she's a pirate who used to own an airship but it crashed(since the DM didn't want us having an airship).&nbsp; Meanwhile, my roommate decided to play the most pathetic character ever.&nbsp; He is a halfling Urchin who saved up money his whole like to buy a hovel in the woods, only to have it destroyed by a falling airship.&nbsp; I'm playing a Dwarven Ranger with 8 Intelligence who was literally raised by wolves and comes across them in order to help them all find their way back to civilization.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the rest of our party's character concepts are &quot;I'm a Rogue&quot;, &quot;I'm a Warlock&quot;, and &quot;I'll decide on something eventually&quot;.&nbsp; The Rogue and Warlock seem to both be members of the airship crew since they had no other ideas for their characters.&nbsp; The Warlock is the guy in question since, as I said above, he plays nothing other than Warlocks(or monks) with no back story.But I can already see the fun ensuing from the interactions between our characters.&nbsp; At least the 3 of us.&nbsp; Since I will enjoy that interaction enough, the other players really don't matter.&nbsp; We need enough people to play in order to make sure we don't die.&nbsp; But I've been playing Organized Play for years.&nbsp; I'm used to showing up for a table in a public location and having 3 of the people at the table be pretty much completely useless or extremely annoying.&nbsp; I've learned to tune them out and figure out which members of the group know how to roleplay and engage with them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6646297, member: 5143"] I enjoy gaming most for the story and the chatter around the table. To me, it's always been like watching a movie with a bunch of friends and making mocking comments throughout the whole thing. Sometimes we get to make some decisions to steer the direction of the story and sometimes we get to grandstand by talking in a funny voice and "inflicting" our character's personality on everyone else. I'll continue to have fun doing that regardless of whether he is there or not. In fact, given that most of the time he sits there at the table saying almost nothing at all is precisely what makes it just fine. I pretend he isn't there and he laughs at my stupid jokes. To me, is isn't the cause of my fun but he isn't much of a hindrance most of the time. When he pulls crap like this it makes me frustrated. So, yes, I vent by making a post about it. But I show up because of the joy or roleplaying out the stupid situations we've come across. We're making up new characters for our Sunday game because a mutual friend of ours, Dave, is becoming our new DM. He is going to run Princes of the Apocalypse for us. It'll be me, my roommate, Mr. Tantrum, his gf, and 2 more mutual friends. Our DM is running the game in Eberron and we've all gotten together to make up characters already. His gf has decided that she's a pirate who used to own an airship but it crashed(since the DM didn't want us having an airship). Meanwhile, my roommate decided to play the most pathetic character ever. He is a halfling Urchin who saved up money his whole like to buy a hovel in the woods, only to have it destroyed by a falling airship. I'm playing a Dwarven Ranger with 8 Intelligence who was literally raised by wolves and comes across them in order to help them all find their way back to civilization. Unfortunately, the rest of our party's character concepts are "I'm a Rogue", "I'm a Warlock", and "I'll decide on something eventually". The Rogue and Warlock seem to both be members of the airship crew since they had no other ideas for their characters. The Warlock is the guy in question since, as I said above, he plays nothing other than Warlocks(or monks) with no back story. But I can already see the fun ensuing from the interactions between our characters. At least the 3 of us. Since I will enjoy that interaction enough, the other players really don't matter. We need enough people to play in order to make sure we don't die. But I've been playing Organized Play for years. I'm used to showing up for a table in a public location and having 3 of the people at the table be pretty much completely useless or extremely annoying. I've learned to tune them out and figure out which members of the group know how to roleplay and engage with them. [/QUOTE]

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