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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3369835" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>His lack of roleplaying doesn't bother me at all. His wife & all of the other players make up for it with excellent roleplaying. And I actually get a kick out of watching him try to roleplay...he makes the perfect Half-Orc Cleric <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (to his credit, I do see him improving with his roleplaying the more he's playing with us)</p><p></p><p>This is one reason for this thread. I was trying to get advice for fixing my annoyance without me having to do "more work". I've tried doing more work and that's not what I want to do, nor do I have time to keep doing it. Creating a world, creating plotlines, & reading adventures that I will run is what I enjoy about DM'ing. Stating up NPC's is my least favorite thing about DM'ing. I love having NPC's included in the adventures I buy more than I like making them. I do enjoy making them, I just don't care to min-max them as others do.</p><p></p><p>I've gone as far as to ask people to create efficiently built NPC's for me, but people have their own stuff they want to do so you don't get much help there. I've had a lot of good advice in this thread, so I'll take what I've learned and hopefully be able to arrange things so I'm less annoyed and I don't have to keep coming to Enworld for tactical advice on challenging a powergamer. I'd rather be asking advice about how to work in a side quest so the powergamer can fulfill his PrC requirements (since I was unaware of the requirement before he sprang it on me last session) <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></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 3369835, member: 18701"] His lack of roleplaying doesn't bother me at all. His wife & all of the other players make up for it with excellent roleplaying. And I actually get a kick out of watching him try to roleplay...he makes the perfect Half-Orc Cleric :) (to his credit, I do see him improving with his roleplaying the more he's playing with us) This is one reason for this thread. I was trying to get advice for fixing my annoyance without me having to do "more work". I've tried doing more work and that's not what I want to do, nor do I have time to keep doing it. Creating a world, creating plotlines, & reading adventures that I will run is what I enjoy about DM'ing. Stating up NPC's is my least favorite thing about DM'ing. I love having NPC's included in the adventures I buy more than I like making them. I do enjoy making them, I just don't care to min-max them as others do. I've gone as far as to ask people to create efficiently built NPC's for me, but people have their own stuff they want to do so you don't get much help there. I've had a lot of good advice in this thread, so I'll take what I've learned and hopefully be able to arrange things so I'm less annoyed and I don't have to keep coming to Enworld for tactical advice on challenging a powergamer. I'd rather be asking advice about how to work in a side quest so the powergamer can fulfill his PrC requirements (since I was unaware of the requirement before he sprang it on me last session) :p [/QUOTE]
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