>I am playing Flameo the Everburning, Master of Evocation and Fire Spells!"
>"We're fighting large green regenerating monsters? Why these are clearly trolls yet Flameo wouldn't know that. I shall be a good roleplayer and cast Ray of Frost the entire encounter!"
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Flameo Chads we can't stop winning
This for me this too much roleplaying, really, even as a DM id be frustrated.
That's bad roleplaying.
A character not knowing something doesn't mean he would do the exact opposite of what he'd be doing.
Flameou the flame guy would 100% try to fry the troll unless he had a reason to do otherwise.
Plus, in most fantasy settings there's knowledge that can just be assumed to be somewhat widespread, at least among the monster fighting population.
And It honestly Just feel awkward pretending to not know something you know, especially in combat. If its purely for roleplay reasons, outside of combat, its mostly Fine for me, but in combat really If Just feels like you are playing dumb, and that is annoying at the very least
You're one of those guys who has his 15 Int caveman discussing the details of alien gauss weaponry, aren't you?
What even is your point? As I said, in combat.
Sure, why not?
What discussions Unk, Bringer of Fire has with Captain Borealis during downtime in the time machine is none of your concern.
This. Flameo would have no reason to NOT blast something with fire once or twice before taking the hint at it's effectiveness.
Also alot of "common weaknesses" of certain creatures are well known enough for an adventurer to at least know SOME of them.
>You've opened every other encounter with a fireball, including that conversation with your mother. Changing your behavior because of your out-of-character knowledge is still metagaming, even if you're not doing it for an advantage.
Jaya Ballard would be disappointed in you, Flameo
has never happened in a real game. c0c737157329cbbb5799023cc65812a9c23363c816b82b071e0d5d9e74011a2f.
>Flameo the Everburning, Master of Evocation and Fire Spells
>ever using something other than the fire spells in his title outside of "the opposing force is fire elementals who are literally made of fire"
I'd try to win them over with my mastery of fire
shit, Flameo would do that, wouldn't he
shows you for mocking me for "wasting" one of my language slots on Ignan
>We're fighting large green regenerating monsters? Why these are clearly trolls yet Flameo wouldn't know that.
I've always found that attitude extremely annoying. If you live in a world where trolls are a thing, any person of ordinary intelligence would be able to recognize a troll even if they don't regularly encounter them.
I mean, if I was walking in the jungle of South Asia IRL and encountered a huge orange-striped cat, I wouldn't be like "What could this creature possibly be? I bet it's a harmless vegetarian."
A tiger? In Africa?!
>I mean, if I was walking in the jungle of South Asia IRL and encountered a huge orange-striped cat
You have the advantage of literacy and the internet. The vast majority of people might not even have ever heard of a tiger just a few centuries back.
>Before internet and literacy people wouldn't share informations
The state of zoomers.
>A creature with a Latin name was unknown to the world a few centuries ago
Jesus Christ you're so fricking stupid it hurts
Nevermind I was thinking about lions. You were right, westerners didn't know about tigers until the mid 18th century apparently.
have a nice day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias
Hey morons, I'm not saying that a tiger would be an unknown creature in general, but that the majority of people wouldn't know about them. Who are the "majority" centuries back? Uneducated peasants/serfs that largely lived out their entire lives in one region and barely had access to information past the closest city and a very dim understanding of both geography and any history past the last few generations of their direct ancestors.
No shit, in a time period where the dissemination of knowledge is comparatively super slow and most people don't even have access to what little international knowledge there IS to know, yeah, a tiger and a shitload of other animals we now think of as "common" knowledge were creatures of rumor or too obscure for most people.
You're embarrassing yourself further.
No argument.
The uneducated west-european peasant would stay home tending the camps but would know stories about big cats since the roman empire influence leaving a strong imprint within the collective mind, the travelers crossing the silk road instead would know 100% what a tiger is beforehand just by talking with other travelers, merchants and locals.
Just to drive the point futher Lynxes were common as frick in the european woodlands (eg: Dante in the beginning of the Divina Commedia has his path blocked by a lynx when wandering through the dark forest), only after the 19th century they were pushed to extinction.
No, obviously they'd just look it up on their phone, and then shoot it with their gun if it attacked them. Like a normal person.
Posting to laugh at you
>the majority of people wouldn't know about them.
First, it doesn't fricking matter to whether or not they can figure out the frickhuge carnivore is a frickhuge carnivore. Second, gossip, rumour, stories, myth, etc did spread further than you think.
>pic
is it possible to save against this natty?
Maybe you would if you lived in 500 bc and somehow ended up there.
This didn't happen
Gold star, little buddy!
>Flameo, my good hotman, consider your specialty, your one true love. Don’t deny it just to avoid the illusion of meta-gaming.
If you live in an area inhabited by trolls, and they’re common enemies adventures face, it should make sense that you know what a troll is and how to fight one
>NOOOOO! YOUR CHARACTER DOESN'T KNOW TROLLS ARE VULNERABLE TO FIRE!!!
Oh shut the hell up, run another game or make some new monster you lazy piece of shit.
>Flameo
That's just a moniker for how much of a homosexual he is.
>the Everburning
A title based on how he feels whenever he goes pee.
>Master of Evocation and Fire Spells
An elaborate metaphor for his freestyle talent.
Underappreciated post.
>Ray of Frost
>The sun makes rays.
>The sun's rays cool down in space before making it through the ozone layer, cooling them down even more.
>The sun's rays are rays of frost compared to the rays leaving the sun.
>Ergo, roleplaying achieved, I am not metagaming, please love me GM-sempai, I am good player.
>Frostburn is just another type of burn.
>I am playing Flameo the Everburning, Master of Evocation and Fire Spells!"
Looking like this, perchance?
Shoo AI slopper no one asked.
good morning sir
>complain about "that's what my character would do", aka any and all RPing that results in suboptimal outcomes
>complain about metagaming
>complain when players don't asspull a way out of the dilemma you've created
Have you tried not being a shit GM?
If I was a dirt eating Game of Thrones peasant and a tiger walked up to me I'd probably think "Golly, that's a big cat... and I think I'm the mouse! Oh shucks oh gosh, save me Local Lord!"
I love you.
Holy checked. Honesty there should be character study on this type of cringe homosexual.
This is what people thought elephants looked like.
Seems accurate enough, if my reference on what elephants are was based only on that picture i would identify a real life elephant neither the less.
IF your only info about elephants is giant grey shit with a floppy nose and tusks it would take you all of five miliseconds to realize that, indeed, the giant grey shit with a floppy nose and tusks chasing you is indeed one.
Roll a dice to see if your scholar knows how to wipe his ass.
Oops, the dice said 4, your scholar doesn't know shit.