So, I’ve never actually played D&D, or any tabletop games (unless card games like Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon count), but my impression is that there tends to be at least one person who just wants to get stabby on whatever animal, vegetable or mineral they encounter?
Store’s still not back up because I SUCK, and also I gotta get all of my merch out of my TRUNK. Which I haven’t done because, again, SUCK.
LUCY: You see before you a tall, ancient tree.
NHI: I stab it!
LUCY: …uh, your character doesn’t have a knife.
NHI: Aw, phooey. Can someone loan Snagglepuss a knife?
SUSIE: You do NOT need to stab a tree.
NHI: What if it’s secretly a monster?
SUSIE: What if it’s a friggin tree.
JAE: It could be a magic tree that grants wishes when you stab it.
NHI: Two for team stabbing the tree!
LUCY: There will be no party splits in my apartment.
NHI: Fiiine, tell me more about this alleged “treeâ€.
SUSIE: You guys are so friggin lucky that I’m lawful neutral.
I’m playing DnD for the first time – and yeah, there is the stabby person in my party. There’s going to come a time when we all stop healing him for being a dumbass.
@Paige – yep, it’s a fact of D&D that the stabbiest person, while being the most fun, is also the most likely to die. I have a friend who always plays chaotic evil, and she’s died more than the rest of us put together.
In my DMing career, there’s sometimes been a player to wants to stab everything, but there has never NOT been a player who wants to roll Thievery checks and pickpocket everything, be it wild animals, ghosts, trees… anything with or, usually, without pockets.
I agree with lowbudgetcyborg, this is pretty accurate. Although I wish the my D&D groups had the same dress sense.
Thankfully the campaign I DM doesn’t have a character who stabs everything.
However the other campaign I’m in, at the local university nerd club, has a policy where players can consent to have their character played by someone outside the group should they be absent from a session. This has of course led to the considered and rational swashbuckling sailor being possessed by a player who then proceeded to jump down a well and try stabbing the bottom of it.
HA! I think I’ve gamed with Nhi.. LOL @ “alleged tree”. 😀 Brilliant.
I’m playing DnD for the first time – and yeah, there is the stabby person in my party. There’s going to come a time when we all stop healing him for being a dumbass.
Team Stabbing The Tree!
@Paige – yep, it’s a fact of D&D that the stabbiest person, while being the most fun, is also the most likely to die. I have a friend who always plays chaotic evil, and she’s died more than the rest of us put together.
For never having played it, you write a good approximation! 🙂
-The Gneech, has played it many many many many times
In my DMing career, there’s sometimes been a player to wants to stab everything, but there has never NOT been a player who wants to roll Thievery checks and pickpocket everything, be it wild animals, ghosts, trees… anything with or, usually, without pockets.
that last line made me lol for real.
Is that an asexual I spy? Yusssss!
XD
For never having played a tabletop roleplaying game, you conveyed the feel of it pretty accurately, lol.
Nailed it!
This made me almost spit coffee onto my monitor; thanks for a good laugh!
Ba-hah, I do love Nhi. I suspect that if I can ever finangle my way into a D&D game, I’ll be right there with her on team tree-stabbing.
And, oh! Is Jae asexual? *glee* (Er – that is Jae, right? I’m so bad at keeping track of the secondary characters …)
I agree with lowbudgetcyborg, this is pretty accurate. Although I wish the my D&D groups had the same dress sense.
Thankfully the campaign I DM doesn’t have a character who stabs everything.
However the other campaign I’m in, at the local university nerd club, has a policy where players can consent to have their character played by someone outside the group should they be absent from a session. This has of course led to the considered and rational swashbuckling sailor being possessed by a player who then proceeded to jump down a well and try stabbing the bottom of it.
No, he didn’t find the Shadow Temple.