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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1536733" data-attributes="member: 12744">I have to agree with the 'Cat here. Sure, these kinds of scenarios have their place and I've trudged through a bunch of them, but the DM should try to be a bit more accomodating and less stereotypical;  instantly assigning you to a support role regardless of your character idea is just not fun unless that's who you want to be. But it's always been there in one way or another.  Sure Tomb of Horrors was one of the nastiest modules ever made, but we took it and integrated it into our world and our story and therefore got some roleplaying value out of it.  It sounds like you wanted more role and less roll, and there's nothing wrong with that;  me, I favor the roleplay aspect but like some kind of conflict or action (not necessarily combat). I'd take Piratecat's advice and check out some of the Story Hours, D&D and non-D&D based.  His story is a great example of a group of high level characters who roleplay while mightily smacking all that is evil, with a twisted and nefarious RBDM constantly thinking up interesting and spellbinding twists for them.  There are plenty of others out there that sound like great games to be in. Hang in there, you'll find the game you like one day.  I've been lucky;  I've played with the same group of great roleplayers for 4 years now, every week, and with every different game we play there is always a lot of fun and excitement to go around.</blockquote>

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