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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9375948" data-attributes="member: 50987">[USER=32740]@Man in the Funny Hat[/USER] 's post is just too real.  And sometimes, it's not just a bad DM...sometimes the players get in on the backstory-bashing too.One time, I decided I was going to play a pacifist character.  Combat is rather boring for me, and I was looking for ways to mix it up and handle it differently...a little change of pace, ya know?  But I know the guys I play D&D with, and I knew I couldn't ever tell them that my character was a pacifist.  I had to keep it a secret, because as soon as they found out, they would all narrow their eyes and smirk and say "oh a pacifist, you say?  Let's just see about that, shall we?" and put me into countless no-win situations until I broke character.So I rolled up a cleric, chose the Life domain, armed myself with a mace and shield.  Pretty standard cleric stuff, right?  And when we were fighting non-living creatures like constructs and undead, I was happily blasting and bashing along with everyone else.  But if we were fighting living creatures--especially animals and humanoids--I would only use skills and spells.  I'd cast protection spells, healing spells, buffs, battlefield control spells; I'd make knowledge checks, create distractions, use the Help action, use healing kits.  A cleric can always find something useful to do.Nobody noticed until we were like, 9th level.  And sure enough, every encounter thereafter was a contrived attempt to force my character to finally attack someone.  Enemies would focus on my character every round, everyone in the party would stand aside and let them rush me...</blockquote>

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