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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 4486310" data-attributes="member: 31454">The fighter's mark is really simple to understand:The fighter is behaving like a headhunting jerk in Unreal Tournament or Halo.Have you ever played any sort of multiplayer video game where it's every player for him/herself, but one jerk decides he's going to headhunt someone? Or even a chaos game of Magic: the Gathering? You're playing a rousing game of Unreal Tournament when somebody kills you. Then you respawn and you're running around looking for a new gun and this jerk comes up behind you and kills you again. You can't shake him. Every time you try to get a kill on someone else, this guy is running up behind you and unloading a flak cannon into your back. And this guy is all about headhunting... he's been doing it since the days of Quake. Spies in Team Fortress are fond of this too, as are people playing agro decks in chaos games of Magic or that one guy who just loves buying up all the Development Cards in Settlers of Cattaan so that he can use Soldiers to Bandit you to death. He's the guy playing man defense in basketball: if you try to ignore him to deal with his teammates, he's going to strip you and make you look like a fool.There's no major reason for the jerk to harass you above everyone else, but he does, and unfortunately for you, he's good at being a jerk. If you ignore him, he'll basically be free to torment you with impunity. If you stay and fight him, you're not able to deal with the rest of the players in the game, and your options will suffer for it.That, in a nutshell, is what a fighter's mark is. He's picked a monster and decided to be a jerk to him. He's been doing this for years. The poor sucker he's marked is going to get slammed if he tries to ignore the fighter being a headhunting jerk, and if he does devote his attention to dealing with the fighter, he's still fighting a jerk who's in the game to play one-on-one, not play against multiple people, and unless you're willing to play his game on his terms, he's going to punish you for it. Hard.</blockquote>

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