Mechaviking
2015-11-26, 10:10 PM
Foreword:
Ok so we´ve been playing d&d regularly for almost a year now meeting every friday evening playing EE in 5e.
I got wrecked by a deck of many things(more info upon request) and was rather peeved mostly at myself and I definetly deserved what happened.
I´ve been throwing banters at people making a bit of fun at them, but its good natured(or so I thought) and we´ve known each other for a looong time 20+ years for some 5 years at the shortest.
The Problem:
I have a problem with my roomie(dangerous territory there) who is also playing with us. I´ve been taking potshots at him across the table saying that most of his characters don´t have any personality, mostly since I noticed that he never ever takes a stance on anything and never has anything to contribute other than mostly combat and a clever idea here and there but usually never interacting with the plot and in one extreme case(way way back in 4e) forced me to solo the last encounter in our game because... Absolutely NOTHING that had happened the entire campaign had anything to do with his "character".
So I was talking with him a day after the session and he tells me that he´s tired of me poking holes in him since he has difficulty communicating and is considering quitting the group because of it. I feel rather ****ty and we discuss it and I agree that maybie I´ve been taking out my frustrations on him and the other players. So I´m at fault and I understand why so I call up the others in the group and chat a bit with them and they don´t feel like I´ve been taking anything out on them personally so I guess it´s just me and my roomie/flatmate.
I understand where he is coming from and see how he´s having difficulty putting something into his characters.
I´ve sent him these articles:
http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/06/20/11-ways-to-be-a-better-roleplayer/
http://www.giantitp.com/articles/tll307KmEm4H9k6efFP.html
To try and help him, but I´ve sent them before and he didn´t even look at them.
Now when I get home from work and ask him if he´s read them his response is:
"Nope and I don´t like them already."
If I had been a regular healthy person I´d maybe tell him to go to hell and that he´s a ****ing prick for making me feel like **** for trying to help him with his problem. But instead I felt ****ty again.
I think these articles are great for RPG purposes and would help him.
Am I being a **** here?
I realize that this post is a double edged sword, but maybie you can help me out from a gaming perspective.
In any case thanks in advance :D
Ok so we´ve been playing d&d regularly for almost a year now meeting every friday evening playing EE in 5e.
I got wrecked by a deck of many things(more info upon request) and was rather peeved mostly at myself and I definetly deserved what happened.
I´ve been throwing banters at people making a bit of fun at them, but its good natured(or so I thought) and we´ve known each other for a looong time 20+ years for some 5 years at the shortest.
The Problem:
I have a problem with my roomie(dangerous territory there) who is also playing with us. I´ve been taking potshots at him across the table saying that most of his characters don´t have any personality, mostly since I noticed that he never ever takes a stance on anything and never has anything to contribute other than mostly combat and a clever idea here and there but usually never interacting with the plot and in one extreme case(way way back in 4e) forced me to solo the last encounter in our game because... Absolutely NOTHING that had happened the entire campaign had anything to do with his "character".
So I was talking with him a day after the session and he tells me that he´s tired of me poking holes in him since he has difficulty communicating and is considering quitting the group because of it. I feel rather ****ty and we discuss it and I agree that maybie I´ve been taking out my frustrations on him and the other players. So I´m at fault and I understand why so I call up the others in the group and chat a bit with them and they don´t feel like I´ve been taking anything out on them personally so I guess it´s just me and my roomie/flatmate.
I understand where he is coming from and see how he´s having difficulty putting something into his characters.
I´ve sent him these articles:
http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/06/20/11-ways-to-be-a-better-roleplayer/
http://www.giantitp.com/articles/tll307KmEm4H9k6efFP.html
To try and help him, but I´ve sent them before and he didn´t even look at them.
Now when I get home from work and ask him if he´s read them his response is:
"Nope and I don´t like them already."
If I had been a regular healthy person I´d maybe tell him to go to hell and that he´s a ****ing prick for making me feel like **** for trying to help him with his problem. But instead I felt ****ty again.
I think these articles are great for RPG purposes and would help him.
Am I being a **** here?
I realize that this post is a double edged sword, but maybie you can help me out from a gaming perspective.
In any case thanks in advance :D