Dungeon Fantasy party compositions

[Aneirin]

Originally Posted by Sutibu

Also he doesnt invest time in finding out what his skills and advantages actually do in the game, but rather has an image in his midn what they can do and when this doesnt work he freezes the game by putting his feet in the sand until we give him some sort of compromise.. How do you deal with this sort of player?

Are we playing with the same player ^_^

He does exactly that. "Oh, I don't have time to look over all the rules!" I mean, he bought a horse, but didn't take the riding skill. We were like, "You can ride a horse normally...(with the +4 bonus) but if anything spooks your insane horse, you try to attack from it or do anything difficult with it...you will have problems" and then came the, "Well i didn't read the rules, there are so many skills! How was I supposed to know you needed the riding skill to do all that!" (and yeah, I did go through character creation with him, abit complicated as we made the characters in hackmaster and the trnasferred them! He didn't go for riding in Hackmaster and so it didn't get put on his sheet, I thought he just wanted it for transporttaion and status, unfortunately he had an image of himself using the horse to ride people down to compensate for him not being able to fight that he didn't tell me about)

A lot of times he wants to do something he doesn't have the skills for and goes, "Oh, but my character would know how to do this! Oh, but he was a noble he would have appreciated gems at some point!" and so on and so forth.

We have found only one way to deal with it. Bop him on the nose with a newspaper, tell him not to pout and to have fun and failing to do things he wants to (as it isn't a serious campaign in any event)