Role playing worst practices

Voros · September 16, 2017, 04:24:44 PM

I built a dice tray using a picture frame and some felt from a Youtube video for that exact purpose.

Gronan of Simmerya · September 16, 2017, 04:30:42 PM

The worst roleplaying practice is anything you like that I don't.

Bren · September 16, 2017, 05:00:04 PM

Quote from: jeff37923;992938Point taken, but I've gotten a lot of good use out of my dice cups.

No doubt you have. But the people who really need them never do use them.

RPGPundit · September 18, 2017, 04:53:42 AM

Quote from: jeff37923;992894You know, they do make dice cups for idiots like that.

I have some players who routinely manage to throw it wild even when using a dice box.

AsenRG · September 18, 2017, 06:01:57 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;993371I have some players who routinely manage to throw it wild even when using a dice box.

You need a bigger dice box, empty boxes from shoes tend to work fine:).

The Exploited. · September 18, 2017, 07:37:29 AM

I've only had this one once or twice.

I've never minded people watching a game if they are curious or whatever. Like maybe someone who was a bit shy and wanted to see how it's done before committing themselves.

One chap, who was a friend of one of the players, didn't feel like playing that night. Fair enough... but he couldn't keep his gob shut. He was cracking jokes and talking over people who were trying to pay the game. It was obnoxious...

crkrueger · September 18, 2017, 08:41:18 AM

The die falls off the table, it's a miss, period.
The die falls off the table side across from you, it's a critical fumble, period.

Funny, I never seem to have any wild dice problems from players.

Gronan of Simmerya · September 18, 2017, 12:47:30 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;993371I have some players who routinely manage to throw it wild even when using a dice box.

Some people just really are incredibly uncoordinated. Throwing it into the miniatures and knocking them ass over teakettle is "fun" too.

crkrueger · September 18, 2017, 12:57:24 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;993509Some people just really are incredibly uncoordinated. Throwing it into the miniatures and knocking them ass over teakettle is "fun" too.

Oh, every miniature I have to place back up, I also add in an additional enemy. If there was no enemy, and they knocked out a PC, "Whoop, surprise!".

I have literally ZERO die probems at the table now, going on decades. It's just the oddest thing.

Apparently, when there's consequences, normal, healthy players magically no longer roll dice like they're having Grand Mal seizures.

WillInNewHaven · September 18, 2017, 01:12:03 PM

I have often run for players who didn't know the rules in detail and I've run for a couple who don't know them at all. "Talk for your character and tell us, out of character, what your character is trying to do" works fine. I have one player like that in my Thursday night game now. When she played a magician in a different campaign, it was more of a problem.

Black Vulmea · September 18, 2017, 05:47:29 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;993523Apparently, when there's consequences, normal, healthy players magically no longer roll dice like they're having Grand Mal seizures.

Gawdamn you, Mean Green - I laughed so hard I re-strained a sore oblique.

Now I gotta go swing a fungo for two hours - thanks a fucking bunch for that.

kk7 · September 19, 2017, 01:00:57 AM

People with money making fun of people without; them "joking" about making slaves out of other players to "improve" their quality of life; and when they're tech bros talking to black women.

I kinda think that's a bad practice, but at least up around Silicon Valley North here, it gets all passes and a lot of back-bench applause.

Dumarest · September 19, 2017, 11:59:46 AM

Quote from: kk7;993771People with money making fun of people without; them "joking" about making slaves out of other players to "improve" their quality of life; and when they're tech bros talking to black women.

I kinda think that's a bad practice, but at least up around Silicon Valley North here, it gets all passes and a lot of back-bench applause.

And you play with these people?

Opaopajr · September 19, 2017, 12:06:44 PM

Quote from: kk7;993771People with money making fun of people without; them "joking" about making slaves out of other players to "improve" their quality of life; and when they're tech bros talking to black women.

I kinda think that's a bad practice, but at least up around Silicon Valley North here, it gets all passes and a lot of back-bench applause.

Here in the SF Bay Area East Bay that's considered a passive aggressive douche nozzle. Why would you play with that sort of bitterness? Life's too short for ultra light beer.

Baulderstone · September 19, 2017, 03:57:07 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;993523Oh, every miniature I have to place back up, I also add in an additional enemy. If there was no enemy, and they knocked out a PC, "Whoop, surprise!".

I have literally ZERO die probems at the table now, going on decades. It's just the oddest thing.

Apparently, when there's consequences, normal, healthy players magically no longer roll dice like they're having Grand Mal seizures.

I like that idea, but don't you ever find those kinds of OOC meta-mechanics get in the way of immersion?