So, I've decided that I hate roleplaying

[Mishihari Lord]

-> OP

You can find other people who play RPGs like you do, but in your place I'd just head over to WoW or another MMO. They handle combat much better than an RPG ever will, with everything automated and much faster. The strength of RPGs in in the support for roleplaying.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Its not the roleplay that is making him thus, its his innate "jerkidity."

The roleplaying helps, though. It means he can say, "It's not me being a jerk, it's my character."

Hiding behind a role acts as an enabler for jerkidity. Much as hiding behind an online name enables the same thing on the internet.

 

[wayne62682]

That's what I meant. The kind of person who will screw over the other players and use the excuse of "Oh but I'm playing my character! I'm roleplaying!". I've gamed with a lot of these types.

Having mulled it over quite a bit, I'm going to try and find a new group. Not sure how to break it to my friend though since he seems to think everything is fine and he's always telling me how he can't wait to play more WHFRP, and maybe start D&D again.. but really the problem is I don't like gaming with him. I dislike his play style, I dislike his gaming personality, I dislike how he feels the game "should" be run, and I dislike his overall view of gaming in general.

 

[Mark Andrew Packer]

Pity I don't have any openings in my groups, because my games are very much non-roleplay heavy. I prefer to focus on sim and tactics without a lot of needless dialogue. I hate roleplay too. I absolutely can't stand it. For one thing, it takes too long, it creates the most arguments and high tension situations between players, and worst of all, most people just plain suck at it. I had a player who's intelligence was 10 and he thought that was very low, so his character spoke like a tard and drooled all over itself, and got into stupid situations that hurt the party because HE thought it would be funny. Another thought that, because he was a thief, it was his job to rob everyone and claim every single magic item he found without sharing with the rest of the party. "Duh, I'm a rogue, so I got to steal all the time." In short, you're not alone! There are still plenty of us who don't like the childish, make-believe play time with their characters.

 

[Nagol]

Well, the complaint was from SEVEN YEARS ago. It is likely the OP has found a game/group he enjoys or moved on.

 

[Bill Reich]

I have played for years with mixes of people with varying attitudes toward the amount of roleplaying they want in a game. While it is futile to play in a group where you are a total misfit, some compromise must usually be made. In the games I run, we go for weeks doing mostly things that would satisfy you but we also have sessions that would bore you to tears. If you can't find a perfect group for you and you don't want to compromise, go play WoW.

The one thing I want to say is: "it's now my view that someone who hurts their party for "roleplay reasons" is a total jerk and doesn't belong in the group." That looks like you really don't want to play with roleplayers at all.