So I led a mutiny...
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barsoomcore
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Everything you could possibly want to know about Mary Sue:
Namarie Sue
Theresa Nielsen Hayden is a brilliant woman. The world is better because she is in it.
Namarie Sue
Theresa Nielsen Hayden is a brilliant woman. The world is better because she is in it.
Yeah, Mary-Sue-fic is awful. The more recent stuff usually involves a pretty girl attracting the attentions of Neo/Legolas and being taken into the Real World/Middle Earth, where she then proves to be a better fighter/shot than Neo/Legolas, and everyone says "Wow, you're awesome, we've never seen anyone as cool as you!", and then Neo/Legolas falls in love with her.
The guy version of this is to write Highlander fanfic and include a new character who beats the snot out of Duncan Macleod, smooches Amanda, gets all the cool lines, and then kills the evil villain immortal when Macleod can't do so himself.
The guy version of this is to write Highlander fanfic and include a new character who beats the snot out of Duncan Macleod, smooches Amanda, gets all the cool lines, and then kills the evil villain immortal when Macleod can't do so himself.
barsoomcore
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Yeah, I hate it when people write about me.takyris said:
Faerl'Elghinn
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Hell, as a PC, I've killed other PCs as roleplay demanded. If it wasn't in character to be travelling with the tagalong, but cold-blooded murder and treachery were, then you were absolutely, positively, and in all other ways entirely justified in crapping on your DM's NPC. <--- IN MY OPINION ...don't shoot. *holds up "IMO" sign and slowly backs away...*
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Henry
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Am I a bad man because I can't stop smiling after reading Tsyr's story? 
It DEFINITELY wasn't handled in the most civil way, but I agree with the sentiment. I never put such characters in my games, and I've never seen one. (Well, almost never. Years ago, someone put a kick-butt marine-type in his D&D game to lead the PC's around, and it wasn't that fun being a grunt.)
It DEFINITELY wasn't handled in the most civil way, but I agree with the sentiment. I never put such characters in my games, and I've never seen one. (Well, almost never. Years ago, someone put a kick-butt marine-type in his D&D game to lead the PC's around, and it wasn't that fun being a grunt.)
RolandOfGilead
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heh...
Something similar happened to me once, in 2nd edition. I was playing a berserker kit, 2nd level, and this haughty elf warrior NPC (DM's pet) kept deriding my skills. I challenged him to a duel, and choose... UNARMED as my weapon. The DM was all smiles, because he was certain he would defeat me easily.. his elf was as strong as I, after all, and 7th level to boot! however.. once the battle began.. I went berserk.. NONE of the subdual damage counted, I couldnt be knocked out, and my punches did real damage where his only did 1 pt real damage per hit. Needless to say, after grappling his NPC and bearhugging him near to death, the dm basicly told everyone at the gaming table that if I didnt stop it I would just be dead because someone would intervene. of course, my friends being the stand up guys, prevented anyone from intervening and I Killed his 7th level elf.
Something similar happened to me once, in 2nd edition. I was playing a berserker kit, 2nd level, and this haughty elf warrior NPC (DM's pet) kept deriding my skills. I challenged him to a duel, and choose... UNARMED as my weapon. The DM was all smiles, because he was certain he would defeat me easily.. his elf was as strong as I, after all, and 7th level to boot! however.. once the battle began.. I went berserk.. NONE of the subdual damage counted, I couldnt be knocked out, and my punches did real damage where his only did 1 pt real damage per hit. Needless to say, after grappling his NPC and bearhugging him near to death, the dm basicly told everyone at the gaming table that if I didnt stop it I would just be dead because someone would intervene. of course, my friends being the stand up guys, prevented anyone from intervening and I Killed his 7th level elf.
jollyninja
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i've played in that game. except it was allways the ultimate combat tank character with far flung social influence in every campaign. even the same one was prevelaint for about 2 years. i just left after awhile (4 years of my pc allways being overshadowed) and will never go back and i think you have inspired me to kill every npc that ever asks to tag along in every campaign i ever play in.
the only mutiny i was ever involved in was quite recent. another player kept bringing in new characters in an effort to overshadow mine. we were going through necropolis and my character, beloved by the dm for the ease in which he could be hooked into adventures (holier then thou extremist ex slave paladin of horus) died. then another died. then another died. then another died. i went from the same character for 9 months of gaming to a new character every week for a month. after my latest character, a bard, was posessed by an undead of some kind, the dm handed me the adventure (i dm a game in which he is a player) and asked me to finish the combat while he went to the bathroom. 5 minutes later, half the party was dead and the rest were incapable of dealing with the threat. only one character survived (high level monks just flee to fast!) because i was so sick of creating new high level characters each week that i killed the party. i didn't flub a single roll mind you, just a missed save by the cleric doomed them. i then told the dm that i was not returning until he was running a different adventure and that if the other player was there, not to call me. i was on my fifth character, two were on their fourth, one his third and we had all had a nice bitch session about the game and the adventure that basically went F#*K E.G.G. adventures (no offence meant to the col) and F#*K THIS GAME!
we play tuesedays, i guess nobody else liked the other player either. unfortunately the dm still seems obsessed with necromancer games. 1st edition must have sucked hard if that's what it "felt" like.
the only mutiny i was ever involved in was quite recent. another player kept bringing in new characters in an effort to overshadow mine. we were going through necropolis and my character, beloved by the dm for the ease in which he could be hooked into adventures (holier then thou extremist ex slave paladin of horus) died. then another died. then another died. then another died. i went from the same character for 9 months of gaming to a new character every week for a month. after my latest character, a bard, was posessed by an undead of some kind, the dm handed me the adventure (i dm a game in which he is a player) and asked me to finish the combat while he went to the bathroom. 5 minutes later, half the party was dead and the rest were incapable of dealing with the threat. only one character survived (high level monks just flee to fast!) because i was so sick of creating new high level characters each week that i killed the party. i didn't flub a single roll mind you, just a missed save by the cleric doomed them. i then told the dm that i was not returning until he was running a different adventure and that if the other player was there, not to call me. i was on my fifth character, two were on their fourth, one his third and we had all had a nice bitch session about the game and the adventure that basically went F#*K E.G.G. adventures (no offence meant to the col) and F#*K THIS GAME!
we play tuesedays, i guess nobody else liked the other player either. unfortunately the dm still seems obsessed with necromancer games. 1st edition must have sucked hard if that's what it "felt" like.
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