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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7137538" data-attributes="member: 6683613">You're doubling down on your commitment to &quot;Just play a baby!&quot; being a sane and sensible recommendation, and claiming that wanting to be a mythic hero in a fantasy roleplaying game is &quot;bizarre and absurd&quot;. I don't feel like I even have to respond to that.I'm perfectly okay with characters taking some time to realize their concept. I'm not okay with characters taking an uncertain and wildly variant amount of time to realize their concept. Let's say I want to play a strong character. Well, according to the rules, it's entirely possible for a fighter to start with 15 Strength at level 1. It doesn't break the game. It's not like I'm expecting 9th-level spells right out of the gate. There is an alternate universe where I roll that 15 and get the perfectly legal and normal character that I want to play. But in this universe, I roll an 11 and therefore have to wait half a campaign to get to that point.It is not unreasonable to find this prospect frustrating.(All the more so if my DM, rather than recognizing that there's a problem, carefully considers the most ridiculous things he could suggest before settling on &quot;Why don't you just play a baby?&quot;)That says more about you than it does about me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7137538, member: 6683613"] You're doubling down on your commitment to "Just play a baby!" being a sane and sensible recommendation, and claiming that wanting to be a mythic hero in a fantasy roleplaying game is "bizarre and absurd". I don't feel like I even have to respond to that. I'm perfectly okay with characters taking some time to realize their concept. I'm not okay with characters taking [I]an uncertain and wildly variant[/I] amount of time to realize their concept. Let's say I want to play a strong character. Well, according to the rules, it's entirely possible for a fighter to start with 15 Strength at level 1. It doesn't break the game. It's not like I'm expecting 9th-level spells right out of the gate. There is an alternate universe where I roll that 15 and get the perfectly legal and normal character that I want to play. But in [I]this[/I] universe, I roll an 11 and therefore have to wait half a campaign to get to that point. It is not unreasonable to find this prospect frustrating. (All the more so if my DM, rather than recognizing that there's a problem, carefully considers the most ridiculous things he could suggest before settling on "Why don't you just play a baby?") That says more about you than it does about me. [/QUOTE]

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