>smart. >physical

>smart
>physical
Which type of character do you prefer to play? You can't say "both" because that would just make you shit at both in 99.9% of tabletop games.

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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Playing physical character and applying smarts on meta level works much better than the other way aroudn.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      > the other way around
      > playing a smart character and applying physical strength in a meta sense
      I will beat the gm into submission in order to cast more fireballs.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >t.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Does it?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick you and you kin for being in control of this damn hobby.

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Physical. Being smart in game requires me to have an autistic level of knowledge of setting and game mechanics (unless you're referring to "smart" as a simple number instead of ACTUALLY BEING SMART). Physical just requires knowing game mechanics and having a mild tactical awareness.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Smart.
      >You can't say "both" because that would just make you shit at both in 99.9% of tabletop games.
      Wrong, but also, play less shit games, and also stop being a min-maxing power-moron.

      >Being smart in game requires me to have an autistic level of knowledge of setting and game mechanics
      Patently untrue. Being smart doesn't have anything to do with knowledge of any one specific setting, and when it comes to game mechanics the "smart" mechanics are often even easier or simpler than combat mechanics. You'd know this if you (the you-you, not the player-you) weren't moronic and weren't nogames.

      >Fake binary choice thread
      Just because you used "character" doesn't make it /tg/-related

      tpbp, /thread

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Fake binary choice thread
    Just because you used "character" doesn't make it /tg/-related

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      What the frick else could it be related to?

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Look, I'm just going to say this. I don't think anyone has ever enjoyed playing a wizard, it's for autists and fricking nerds. Just let me play a fighter so I don't have to flip through a book to check out what each of my two dozen fricking spells do.

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Smart, because I am a shameless degenerate and I like cute caster girls. Also glasses fetish.

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I always play the face because it's hard to turn off my natural charisma

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Both.

    Stop playing shit games where it's a binary choice.

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    "You can't give an honest answer" seems like a pretty weird premise for the thread, OP. Assuming that answering "both" means always trying to balance smarts and physical ability rather than enjoying playing both smart characters and physical ones seems pretty weird, too.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not weird to anyone who plays games.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah? I sometimes play physical characters, sometimes smart ones, and I enjoy both. System permitting I like making characters who have decent abilities both mentally and physically. Last time I played Pathfinder 2E, which is dairly generous with Ability increases, I played a magus who had good but not maximized Intelligence and good physical Ability scores. I've played both physically and mentally solid characters in a number of other games, including at least various WH40K RPGs, Blades in the Dark, WHFRP and Exalted - tgat's based on characters that spring immediately to mind. Tell me more about what you imagine playing games to be like, though.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >System permitting I like making characters who have decent abilities both mentally and physically.
          They weren't decent at either. You're delusional.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >DnDogshit player desperately huffing copium.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              You literally said you played DnD in your previous post. As I expected, you're demented.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Y-you can't have a system where your character is good at two things, you can'tYOU CAN'T YOU JUST CAN'T OKAY?!?!!?!?!!?!??!

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sure you can, you just have to get out of the kiddie pool of DnDogshit and DnDogshit clones.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                The problem is that most dndrons are organically unable to do this and subconsciously impose a dnd template on everything, so as a result they cannot enjoy other systems because they play it wrong.

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Neither.

    I play spellcasters, which use their awesome reality-bending powers to do shit. As a result, they're both stupid and weak.

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I play GOOD games. I don't play DnDogshit. So actually I CAN make characters who have both.

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Socrates went on to become a veteran of at least three major battles of the Peloponnesian War. Indeed, he was well-known in Athens not only as a philosopher but also, to some extent, as a war hero.
    Frick murica and murican anti-intellectualism.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Socrates, America, and anti-intellectualism is not traditional games.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dnd is made by stupid murican nerds. Also, other systems do not have this problem.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, they do.

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Y-you can't have a system where your character is good at two things, you can'tYOU CAN'T YOU JUST CAN'T OKAY?!?!!?!?!!?!??!

    >he's literally frothing at the mouth

  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    D&D 5e players actually believe this. Unironically.

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    both

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      There's always that one guy who makes a shit character and then gets upset when he fails at everything. The """roleplayer""".

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I find it hilarious how confused DnDrones like (you) get at the very idea tgat people playing a ROLEPLAYING GAME might actually want to ROLEPLAY. Like seriously, wtf is wrong with (you) people? Can I learn this power of inflicting moronation like WotC can?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >you can't, YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T!!!
        Lmao he keeps seething

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Have you considered playing vudeogames? Since you don't want any roleplaying in your roleplaying games, something like Skyrim might be right you alley.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Having a shit character doesn't make you a roleplayer.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >no, your character has to do six billion damage or its shit
            moronic autist detected.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >character must be mechanically optimized or it's shit
            >he does not understand that in better systems character can do more than one thing and still be useful
            Tell me you're a DnDrone without telling me you're a DnDrone.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, but a good roleplayer can have fun with a shit character. A DnDetard is usually just a shitty person.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          No, he's right. Those players are fricking insufferable.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Painfully obvious samegayging

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              No. I've had to deal with those frickers in actual games and it sucks.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sounds like you're the problem tbh.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                No, the problem is the guy who builds shit characters on a mechanical level and sucks at roleplaying at the same time and then b***hes up a storm. They go hand in hand a good 90% of the time.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                It really sounds like you're just a min-maxing autistic who doest roleplay.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Stop projecting.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bingo, he hit the nail. Also, every minmaxer deserves a rope.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not the one complaining about my self-created problems though. (You) are. If you don't even know how to use a word properly, don't use it.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Someone else sucking at everything isn't a self-created problem.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bingo, he hit the nail. Also, every minmaxer deserves a rope.

                >Replies literally spaced as close as the post time allows
                >Still samegayging to protect his ego on an anonymous image board.

                Copium overdose.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Allowing an autistic person in a group is always a bad idea, so my table has a rule that no autistics are allowed.

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                The irony of being a DnD 5e player and saying this is... honestly pretty overwhelming. I'm not sure whether to laugh or face-palm.

                Also, if you actually had a group, you wouldn't be so insecure as to make up pretend arguments and samegay to "win" a Ganker thread.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think you should give him the charitable interpretation of a pc who wants to fill a role but does not have the stats to fulfill it.
          Like a charter who wants to be an elegant aristocrat dualist but ends up losing duals and competing social faux pas do to him not building his charter correctly and ruins the mood due to his sulking

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >AHHHHHHH DND DND DND DND DND DND DND DND DND DND
    Mindbroken.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Have you tried playing better games?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      /tg/ is actually, unironically obsessed with d&d
      d&d actually gives you the best odds of making a character that's both physically powerful and intelligent because you roll your stats, in say World of Darkness you have primary secondary and tertiary attributes, there is no possible way to start good at everything.

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Both.
    Just roll 18 str and 18 int when you make your character, easy.

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care about whatever encompasses those "99.9% of tabletop games", none of my characters are dopey idiots who need a short little shit to yell at them because they forgot what they were told two seconds ago. They all have practical knowledge based on the basics learned from living in the world, general knowledge of adventuring (including common monsters and hazards), and advanced knowledge based on what kind of creature they are and on the two abilities chosen at the start to create an implied background.
    They are smart enough to go on adventures with relative safety and have the sense to pull out of danger when needed, but are physically strong enough that if they team up and use their best skills for the scenario, they can take down pretty much any threat.
    It's crazy how you can avoid the problems of "99.9% of tabletop games" when you just make your own and design around what you like. Keep hinging on what's pumped out of greedy corporations and self-absorbed indie developers for a quick buck, instead of using your own agency to produce your own enjoyment.

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stupid and weak for the escapism.

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    When tempered with extreme aggression, brutal physical characters become smart characters.

  20. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone playing a smart weenie is just asking to get bullied.

  21. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Of course I can say both, shut the frick up nogames. Like I'd trust what someone on /tg/ claims 99.9% of games are

    I like to make smart & strong characters with awful personalities, in defiance towards my group trying to make me the party leader. They refuse to speak with npcs and fall silent when the GM asks what we want to do, so I'm going to abuse the NPCs and get the group into trouble until the group learns to not be a bunch of dialtones.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >[cringe nogame fairy tale]

  22. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >make strong but dumb character
    >play smart anyway
    What you gonna do about it?

  23. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I tend to play large guys or mad scientists seeking to become large guys

  24. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >99.9% of tabletop games

  25. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Smart with an edge. Like "zoology prof with an elephant gun" or "aristocrat with a fencing hobby" or "scholar of east asian history who picked up some martial art."
    >it would make you shit at both in 99.9% of tabletop games.
    That's not true at all, also play better games.

  26. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Neither

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