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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6335235" data-attributes="member: 23935">One of my more egregious examples comes from 2nd ed.Lace and Steel had just been discovered in the area and I'm pretty sure the player (let's call him Richard) really wanted to play it instead of D&D.I started a 2e game using the Indian mythos as presented in Deities and Demigods, and constructed the specialty priests.  The first adventure was fairly typical introductory fare: the group had a map to a minor treasure.Most of the group created typically effective 2e characters: two clerics, a Bard, and a Thief.  Then there was Richard.  Richard decided to build a Fighter.  Great! The group could use some muscle.Richard built a foppish dandy.  He 2nd highest score was Charisma.  He had NWP in dancing and etiquette.  I think he put multiple slots in each.His weapon proficiencies were arquebus, long sword, dagger, lance.  He didn't specialise in any weapon.More on the arquebus:  it fired 1/3 rounds and only if you weren't attacked while loading it on the other two rounds.  It was expensive and heavy.  In short, it has no redeeming qualities other than it was a gun.For equipment, he purchased silk and fur clothes, arquebus, sword, dagger, and an assortment of odds and sods not particularly adventure-related. <== no armour.  Part of that was the gun cost multiple hundreds of gp; part was it didn't fit the image he had of the character.  He said he'd get armour once he could afford gear appropriate to his station (i.e. full plate worth several thousands of gp).  He wouldn't be caught dead in a lesser man's clothes.First encounter outside of town was a small humanoid (goblin I think) party.  The groups discovered each other at about 50 feet apart in light woods.  The goblins start to charge and Richard... starts loading his arquebus.  The rest of the group drop a couple of goblins.  Round two, the goblins reach the party and engage.  The fighter, wizard, and bard end up hacked to death before the rest manage to put the goblins down.  Richard never managed to take a swing.</blockquote>

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