Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 3697108" data-attributes="member: 18701">I like to think that I'm the ideal player  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> I'm not perfect of course.  I would say my only flaw is taking charge of a situation and slightly hogging the spotlight. But I'm just used to playing with players who never take charge and just look to me to make a decision, so that's why I do that. I never argue with a DM or fight with players, and I never metagame. I actually try to help the DM or players out if I can and if I think I'm stepping on someones toes about it, I'll quickly stop.I DM 95% of the time though and I'm aware of the player type that you are describing. Even though I DM so much, I still seem to stay in character as a player and not metagame.I'm not exactly sure how I do it, but I'd guess that it's because I occupy my mind by imagining the scenario in my head and think about what our characters would do rather than bother with what I think the DM is doing. During the whole game I am imagining everything in my head as if I'm reading a book. I also only focus on what I am doing rather than what everyone else is doing.It's more fun for me to imagine an NPC interacting with me than thinking about how the DM is running the game.Part of the fun of D&D for me is simply trying to get myself out of whatever situation presents itself. I don't care what other people do because I'm confident enough that I'll be smart enough to survive. Even if I somehow lose all of my characters equipment, I may be annoyed, but part of the thrill for me is figuring out how to survive afterwards and get back on my feet. So I guess I'm too busy thinking about how to keep my PC safe in a dangerous situation than focusing on metagaming piddly things that might do me more harm than good (if I'm wrong).I always tell my players that if they try to out think me as a DM rather than out think the NPCs, it will one day bite them in the butt. Never assume you know the situation better than the DM. You never know what a DM is actually doing, and trying to metagame and whine about what the DM is doing will only ruin the fun that the DM is trying to provide. The only time I'd whine is after my PC is dead and I realize the DM screwed up!  <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" /></blockquote>

Verification