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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mkhaiwati" data-source="post: 3219806" data-attributes="member: 43214">I hate the "screw other party member's" kind of player. I played with one back in high school, and every campaign he existed just to mess with other players and the gms allowed him to because it was funny to them. I quit after I missed a session and he had my character framed for murder (I woke up in jail with no memory and no possessions). I left gaming for about ten years after that campaign.Sadly, most groups I have been in are very mercenary. Oh sure, it may say NG or CG on the sheet because the GM outlaws evil characters, but everything came down to money. And I have nothing against that, but it should depend on the character. But that is an ingrained trait that every single one has in the other groups I have been with. with every character.Last time, I was playing a follower of Isis who wanted to help new families (marraiges) and farmers (with plows and plow horses) who donated money and bought items for new people starting off. It was important to him. He also had a surrogate father relationship with an orphaned girl the group had saved from a annis, and he would occasionally purchase odd gifts for her on his travels (toys, a new dress, maybe some sort of children's book). I realized I was playing a different game than the others when the GM says "Why do you want to do that? Okay, go ahead and waste your money that way..." and the others bought the biggest, baddest stuff they could.I always think of an anti-hero as Oscar Schindler, who womanized, boozed, failed at everything (including marraige) but when the chips were on the line, came through big time. In literature try Pan Zagloba from With Fire and Sword , the fat "knight" who exaggarates every story and tells so many lies, but helps the heroine escape to her lover.</blockquote>

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