Order of the Stick: How long will they put up with Miko?

[buzzard]

Apologies, apologies. I failed a bardic lore (OotS) check. I remember him now. Personally though, I'd rather have Miko's player in my group. Someone who is willing to play her character how she see's fit, not how others tell her to be.
-cpd

As always YMMV, but such a character in a group in which I was playing would not last long. They would annoy me past my tolerance point pretty quickly and one of us would be gone one way or another.

I play the game for fun, not to see someone show off their 'roleplaying talent' by running an annoying character.

buzzard

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Apologies, apologies. I failed a bardic lore (OotS) check. I remember him now. Personally though, I'd rather have Miko's player in my group. Someone who is willing to play her character how she see's fit, not how others tell her to be.
-cpd

First, I don't think Miko is a PC, she has all the hallmarks of a DMPC to me. Second if she was, I would refer to my standard "playing my character" response - Players should roleplay their character, and players should design characters they can roleplay without disrupting the game and forcing the other players into unrealistic action.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

But really I think people are being a little harsh here. I wouldn't run the player out of the game. And I wouldn't even call her overbearing. We all have different levels of overbearing that we consider tolerable.

so introducing yourself by trying to kill the party leader then pretty much declaring yourself the party leader and taking complete control of all the other characters is within your definition of "tolerable overbearing"? Interesting....

Is Miko really that much worse than Piffany from Nodwick?
-cpd

is someone murderous, insulting, belittling and judgemental that much worse than someone (maybe overly) sweet? IMHO, yeah, I think so.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Admittedly I am mostly skimming this thread but I have seen it consistantly said that they "pretended to be royalty" yet from my reading I am not 100% sure that Roy understood what was going on.

I'm pretty sure Roy knew what was going on. He didn't when he said he was the king of nowhere--my read on that is that he was being sarcastic. Then the staff took him seriously and he tried explaining a bit and then just gave up. "If they're too thick to understand that I'm not really the king of anywhere ("no, of course not, you're the king of nowhere" they reply), I'll just let them treat me really nice rather than fight to get it through their thick skulls that they shouldn't be treating me so well."

 

[Ghoti]

I'm pretty sure Roy knew what was going on. He didn't when he said he was the king of nowhere--my read on that is that he was being sarcastic. Then the staff took him seriously and he tried explaining a bit and then just gave up. "If they're too thick to understand that I'm not really the king of anywhere ("no, of course not, you're the king of nowhere" they reply), I'll just let them treat me really nice rather than fight to get it through their thick skulls that they shouldn't be treating me so well."

Actaully I think It was just like the "Whose on frist" bit with Roy never really getting it.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Two wrongs don't make a right. Roy's treatment of her (pre- and post-op) is as wrong as her treatment of the OotS, and the end result is more bad feelings all the way around. I'm actually pretty disappointed in Roy for not taking the high road.

If a paladin feels bad about someone telling her that she's a jerk, and not for actually having been a jerk, then she's not a very good paladin. If anything, she should be thanking Roy for teaching her a bit about humility.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

OK, so how does Miko die?
Option 1: Seppuku
Option 2: Stabbity death from Belkar
Option 3: Left to fight a dragon on her own
Option 4: Used to find traps
Option 5: Crushed under Haley's loot

Start a new thread. Include a poll.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

If a paladin feels bad about someone telling her that she's a jerk, and not for actually having been a jerk, then she's not a very good paladin. If anything, she should be thanking Roy for teaching her a bit about humility.

Not all paladins are alike, despite the horrendous similarity of their codes. Lots of paladins are arrogant, and those that aren't might not immediately accept a lesson in humility.

 

[ForceUser]

Lots of paladins are arrogant, and those that aren't might not immediately accept a lesson in humility.

Arrogance is not acceptable behavior for a paladin, regardless of code or deity. As far as I'm concerned, one need look no farther than Sepulchrave II's Eadric of Deorham for the exemplar of the paladin ideal.

 

[Crothian]

Arrogance is not acceptable behavior for a paladin, regardless of code or deity. As far as I'm concerned, one need look no farther than Sepulchrave II's Eadric of Deorham for the exemplar of the paladin ideal.

Well, this paladin though is defined by someone else, our own definitions have little meaning here.