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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 60922" data-attributes="member: 3003">my real beefI suppose when I rail against the faux acting roleplayers I should state some more specific problems I have with them. It's the fact that they make a character which is "new", but in reality is generally crippled in some way. Now the dwarf druid example here doesn't fit that bill. However a "runner" does. Even a half orc bard does as well . Did any of these people ever bother to think that maybe someone has not run that character type before because it is disfunctional? While we always hear people complaining about power gamers (and it certainly is annoying to play, and only be a prop because some godlike PC is in the game doing everything), I find it just as annoying to have some player deliberately make the character have to be carried along. Living Greyhawk would appear to be a lousy place to be a hanger-on. The whole set up is such that making a powerful character is not particularly easy. Your equipment is tightly controlled. You have a 28 point buy for stats. Only the basic classes and feats are available. When someone joins a party in LG, and doesn't intend to contribute it does bad things for the survivability of the party- and the feeb still gets the exp award. I often wonder if the self proclaimed elite roleplayers (often seen at cons), ever considered that a competent, well designed character can have a personality as well?Buzzard</blockquote>