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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6340653" data-attributes="member: 6669384">He's a rough fit for the group, and has been for a while.We've run several round robin campaigns.  Our previous one was the first where we ever tried a pseudo-historical setting.  It lasted a while (four years) I admit, but before that all of our settings were purely mythical, and pretty much designed by committee:  Each player invented their own homeland.No, Taiia doesn't exist in our setting, as such, but we gave a general approval to a range of books.  Deities and Demigods was on the list, so even if it's a bad fit, it's already licensed into the game.  Wikipedia lists a number of African religions, and several of them list creator/destroyer deities, so he's not out of line in that respect.His level of system mastery may or may not be an issue.  He's aware of things that I'm not, but frequently he seems to get them wrong.  Always in his favor.  It may be that he's intentionally misunderstanding things and counting on us not knowing the fringe stuff well enough to catch him, or it may be that he only tries to exploit the things he sees as giving more of an advantage.  I mean, he won't intentionally play something that isn't a good return on investment, will he?His characters seem to be well crafted to take advantage of various class synergies, yet he's often caught by surprise when a DM uses a relatively common spell or creature to foil him.  His PC in the last game was designed to never take damage from any savable spell (Evasion and Mettle, both, which give him zero damage on any spell he can save against, be it Reflex, Fortitude or Will).  He was also designed to maximize his Hide ability (Bonus in the low 30s, Hide in Plain Sight and something called a Ring of Darkhidden which lets him hide in shadows even if the searcher has Darkvision).  He went near ballistic when his PC got hit with Glitterdust.  He argued that, since he wasn't Invisible, per se, See Invisible and even True Sight wouldn't reveal his loaction, and that Glitterdustsimply revealed Invisible targets, not hidden ones.  Then we read him the line from the spell description that says targets get a -40 on their Hide checks.  Instant fireworks, as if he had never read the 2nd level spell.In our recent exchanges about sources he challenged my character's Spiked Chain, demanding that I reveal the source book I'd gotten it from, since he couldn't find it.  It's straight from the PHB, of course.Oddly, that's the book he seems least familiar with. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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