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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3367880" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>He seems to have fun as long as I have lots of encounters. He's the type that would enjoy a campaign that just threw random encounters at him every session so he can fight stuff. This next adventure I'm running is very roleplay heavy and light on combat. I don't know what to expect from him. I hope he'll get involved in the overall plot, but I doubt it.</p><p></p><p>His wife enjoys everything....except for when I made an issue about her arrows <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p>Both of them are always motivated to get together for the next session. From my experience that's rare, so it's great they are and I'm glad to have players that make an effort to be available for another session!</p><p></p><p>I know one of the other players is getting annoyed by his style of play. They are the exact opposite players, so it's not surprising they butt heads. This player complains that the powergamer doesn't participate with character interaction & always tries to tell players what to do in combat & what spells/feats/ect to pick during level progression. The powergamer complains because that player is terrible in combat and doesn't even use all of the options provided for the PC's class. But it's nothing serious enough that they'd argue with each other. They'll each just get that look of :\ on their face when one of them does something that annoys the other.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, the roleplayer player fits my style of DM'ing more than the powergamers style. I can deal with the lack of strategic combat but great roleplaying better than I can deal with the lack of roleplaying but great strategic combat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 3367880, member: 18701"] He seems to have fun as long as I have lots of encounters. He's the type that would enjoy a campaign that just threw random encounters at him every session so he can fight stuff. This next adventure I'm running is very roleplay heavy and light on combat. I don't know what to expect from him. I hope he'll get involved in the overall plot, but I doubt it. His wife enjoys everything....except for when I made an issue about her arrows :p Both of them are always motivated to get together for the next session. From my experience that's rare, so it's great they are and I'm glad to have players that make an effort to be available for another session! I know one of the other players is getting annoyed by his style of play. They are the exact opposite players, so it's not surprising they butt heads. This player complains that the powergamer doesn't participate with character interaction & always tries to tell players what to do in combat & what spells/feats/ect to pick during level progression. The powergamer complains because that player is terrible in combat and doesn't even use all of the options provided for the PC's class. But it's nothing serious enough that they'd argue with each other. They'll each just get that look of :\ on their face when one of them does something that annoys the other. The thing is, the roleplayer player fits my style of DM'ing more than the powergamers style. I can deal with the lack of strategic combat but great roleplaying better than I can deal with the lack of roleplaying but great strategic combat. [/QUOTE]
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