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<blockquote data-quote="Soundbyte" data-source="post: 1336042" data-attributes="member: 16401">Here's a couple more player types I've run across:The Axe MurdererCombat is part of the game, sure, but this is the guy who will kill anything that gets in his way.&nbsp; You see this in a lot of games, but it's seems more pervasive in D20 modern, probably because there tends to be more innocent people around for the Axe Murderer to gleefully gun down.&nbsp; This is the guy who will derail any plot you might have had as a Game Master, and will ensure that most of your games end in bloody gunfights with the police.&quot;She's got 11 items in her cart?&nbsp; This is the express line!&nbsp; Uzi-time!&quot;The Specific RealistThis one's sort of a subspecies of the realist.&nbsp; They pick one thing (computer hacking, a branch of science, etc.) that they're acquainted with in real life, and then complain constantly about how the game doesn't simulate that particular aspect of roleplay well.&quot;Well, that's not how hacking works ... I mean, that's completely unrealistic.&quot;&quot;Right, because it takes a completely different technique to hack a military supercomputer with a twenty-sided die?&quot;The One Trick PonyThis is the guy who specializes his character to the nth degree.&nbsp; Specialization is great, and each character should have their own &quot;shtick.&quot;&nbsp; However, this player goes a little too far and spends all their skill points on one obscure skill set.&nbsp; The problem with this, is you have to include this one obscure facet of the game in every adventure, or else the character sits on the sidelines sulking.&nbsp; Admittedly D20 modern does a good job of organizing skills so the one-trick pony isn't as common as in other systems, but it still happens.&quot;My character is a university professor who's completely fluent in Ancient Sanskrit.&nbsp; I can read it, write it, and converse fluently!&nbsp; Cool, huh?&nbsp; Nope, I can't read Latin or anything like that ... nope, I don't know much about ancient history ... yeah, sorta used most of my skill points on the Sanskrit thing ...&quot;There's other problem types that I've run into, but these were the three that came to mind right away.&nbsp; The military-wannabe is definitely one that I've run into a ton of times as well.By the way, it's my first post on these boards, so I apologize if I've messed up the formatting or anything like that.Soundbyte</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Soundbyte, post: 1336042, member: 16401"] Here's a couple more player types I've run across: [U]The Axe Murderer[/U] Combat is part of the game, sure, but this is the guy who will kill anything that gets in his way. You see this in a lot of games, but it's seems more pervasive in D20 modern, probably because there tends to be more innocent people around for the Axe Murderer to gleefully gun down. This is the guy who will derail any plot you might have had as a Game Master, and will ensure that most of your games end in bloody gunfights with the police. [I]"She's got 11 items in her cart? This is the express line! Uzi-time!"[/I] [U]The Specific Realist[/U] This one's sort of a subspecies of the realist. They pick one thing (computer hacking, a branch of science, etc.) that they're acquainted with in real life, and then complain constantly about how the game doesn't simulate that particular aspect of roleplay well. [I]"Well, that's not how hacking works ... I mean, that's completely unrealistic." "Right, because it takes a completely different technique to hack a military supercomputer with a twenty-sided die?"[/I] [U]The One Trick Pony[/U] This is the guy who specializes his character to the nth degree. Specialization is great, and each character should have their own "shtick." However, this player goes a little too far and spends all their skill points on one obscure skill set. The problem with this, is you have to include this one obscure facet of the game in every adventure, or else the character sits on the sidelines sulking. Admittedly D20 modern does a good job of organizing skills so the one-trick pony isn't as common as in other systems, but it still happens. [I]"My character is a university professor who's completely fluent in Ancient Sanskrit. I can read it, write it, and converse fluently! Cool, huh? Nope, I can't read Latin or anything like that ... nope, I don't know much about ancient history ... yeah, sorta used most of my skill points on the Sanskrit thing ..."[/I] There's other problem types that I've run into, but these were the three that came to mind right away. The military-wannabe is definitely one that I've run into a ton of times as well. By the way, it's my first post on these boards, so I apologize if I've messed up the formatting or anything like that. Soundbyte [/QUOTE]

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