robertbevan
2012-06-07, 08:21 AM
for the longest time, my friends and i were taking turns being DM because nobody wanted the job permanently. then we met a guy who did. hooray. but he doesn't have any kids, and so his wife and he are more free to do stuff on the weekend, so he'd be unavailable as often as not on friday nights. now other stuff has come up, so he's bailed on us completely.
a younger guy in the group has offered to take the reins, and so i felt good about that, but he said he wants us all to start off at 20th level. i've got a bad feeling about this for a number of reasons.
1. i like starting out at level one. part of the fun of "fantasy roleplaying" for me is the fantasy part. i can actually imagine myself as the character, starting out from humble beginnings, not too strong or swift or whatever... not too far removed from myself. and as i gradually gain experience, my suspension of disbelief can keep pace.
2. i like to feel like i earned my way to where i am.
3. i don't know what half of my special class related **** does. when i gradually level up from scratch, i've got a week of downtime (often more) to have a good look at my recently leveled up character, and see what each of my nifty new abilities are good for. when i suddenly have twenty levels' worth of **** dumped on me, i can't be bothered to look into all that at once.
4. maybe the biggest reason. we've got one player who had his brother make the most badass monstrosity he could think of within the parameters given to us by our new DM. so he's an undead centaur or some bull**** who can routinely dish out like six hundred hit points of damage in one go. and he's pushing another in the group to be a four-headed troll (another of his brother's creations) who is nearly invulnerable and, of course, dishes out ungodly amounts of damage. so i ask you... what, exactly, are our roleplaying options here? i can't imagine a plausible scenario in which my vanilla human rogue would be chumming around with an undead centaur and a four-headed troll. worst case scenario is going to be just one battle after another, with those two guys smashing everything and me drinking beer waiting for my turn to do a piddly thirty-something points of damage. best case scenario... hmmm... no, i think that's probably the best case scenario as well.
so am i right in that this is inevitably going to suck balls? or am i being a whiny bitch?
a younger guy in the group has offered to take the reins, and so i felt good about that, but he said he wants us all to start off at 20th level. i've got a bad feeling about this for a number of reasons.
1. i like starting out at level one. part of the fun of "fantasy roleplaying" for me is the fantasy part. i can actually imagine myself as the character, starting out from humble beginnings, not too strong or swift or whatever... not too far removed from myself. and as i gradually gain experience, my suspension of disbelief can keep pace.
2. i like to feel like i earned my way to where i am.
3. i don't know what half of my special class related **** does. when i gradually level up from scratch, i've got a week of downtime (often more) to have a good look at my recently leveled up character, and see what each of my nifty new abilities are good for. when i suddenly have twenty levels' worth of **** dumped on me, i can't be bothered to look into all that at once.
4. maybe the biggest reason. we've got one player who had his brother make the most badass monstrosity he could think of within the parameters given to us by our new DM. so he's an undead centaur or some bull**** who can routinely dish out like six hundred hit points of damage in one go. and he's pushing another in the group to be a four-headed troll (another of his brother's creations) who is nearly invulnerable and, of course, dishes out ungodly amounts of damage. so i ask you... what, exactly, are our roleplaying options here? i can't imagine a plausible scenario in which my vanilla human rogue would be chumming around with an undead centaur and a four-headed troll. worst case scenario is going to be just one battle after another, with those two guys smashing everything and me drinking beer waiting for my turn to do a piddly thirty-something points of damage. best case scenario... hmmm... no, i think that's probably the best case scenario as well.
so am i right in that this is inevitably going to suck balls? or am i being a whiny bitch?