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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1335774" data-attributes="member: 5171">Oh good lord.<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=":)" />THE MARTIAL ARTS JUNKIE.  This person wants to be Bruce Lee. No, check that, Bruce Lee was a pansy.  He wants to be Jet Li with wire-fu.  He wants to be Goku or Gohan or whatever Dragonballz person he can get away with.  He wants to punch holes in walls.If he builds his character on his own, he will complain when he gets shot and dies.If you show him how to build a character who can do massive amounts of unarmed damage -- like, more on average than a strong person with a greatsword -- he will still complain that his character can't do anything but run up and hit people.  No matter how powerful his character gets, unless he can get a feat or skill that describes his ability to leap into the air and then freeze time and do the cameras-moving-180-degrees thing, he's not gonna be happy.Requests to describe his abilities in cinematic terms are not responded to with happiness.In a martial arts campaign, he is in heaven, unless somebody else is as cool as he is.  In a non-martial arts campaign, he tends to stick out like a sore thumb.relatedTHE ANIME-NINJA BROODING HERO JERKThis guy watched a lot of anime.  A lot.  And he wants to play an anime game.  Unfortunately, he somehow stumbled into your d20 Modern game.  The concept of balanced skills and feats and class selections do not appeal to the anime gamer.  He wants to hit harder than anyone in the world when he uses his ki strike.  He wants to be impossible to hit when he goes into full power mode.  He wants to sit on the sidelines and sulk (only he calls it brooding) for most of the game, though, because he equates "staring silently and waiting for people to become supporting cast members in his fantasy world by asking him what's wrong and trying unsuccessfully to get him to talk" with roleplaying.  So basically, he wants to be stronger than everyone, faster than everyone, and more devoted and dedicated and strong-willed than everyone, and his weakness is that he's quiet and broody and consumed by self-hatred.The best thing to do to these people is to put them in a game with people who don't watch anime, people who say, "Why is he so quiet?  Alrighty, off we go then!  Hey, mister mopey-face, you can come along if you want, but if you do, turn that frown upside-down and start hitting things!"Also, force them to roll.  If they have a Cha of 8 and no ranks in Diplomacy, the fact that they can't just say the cool thing they've been saving up will just eat them up inside as they roll that 7 (6 after Cha) and fail to convince the princess to fall in love with them.  Of course, they will argue that she SHOULD fall in love with them, because that's what princesses do in anime-land.  They fall in love with people who act like jerks.Note: In an anime-styled game, this is perfectly acceptible, except that everyone seems to want to be the cloak-clad brooding loner. It's only in an otherwise normal d20 Modern game that anime-dude sticks out like a sore thumb.</blockquote>

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