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Maz · 12-02-2017, 06:29 PM

I have increasingly started to make players redo their characters because "they do not fit the game we are playing right now". Most often this boils down to them not really being able to answer a simple question such as "but then why wouldnt your character not just do that? Why are they here now, participating in this?"

Latest example: One player wanted to be a socially and physically inept techie who just wanted to fix up old computers and tinker with robots. Well thats a good concept, except we are playing a game where the PCs are all highly trained special agents expected to do on the spot investigation and take direct action.

I used to try to "go with it" but it always ends up being a bad experience for evryone.

This is also because Im sick and tired of the `reluctant hero` where the player wants ME to be the one to constantly force them into the hero role without it fitting into the game-story already there.

12-02-2017, 06:29 PM	#10
Maz Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Denmark	Re: What will you not allow? I have increasingly started to make players redo their characters because "they do not fit the game we are playing right now". Most often this boils down to them not really being able to answer a simple question such as "but then why wouldnt your character not just do that? Why are they here now, participating in this?" Latest example: One player wanted to be a socially and physically inept techie who just wanted to fix up old computers and tinker with robots. Well thats a good concept, except we are playing a game where the PCs are all highly trained special agents expected to do on the spot investigation and take direct action. I used to try to "go with it" but it always ends up being a bad experience for evryone. This is also because Im sick and tired of the `reluctant hero` where the player wants ME to be the one to constantly force them into the hero role without it fitting into the game-story already there.