Why are fa/tg/uys so averse to playing ugly bastards? Does it remind you all too much of reality? I feel like I'm the only who enjoys this archetype.
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The Ugly Bastard Archetype.
Why are fa/tg/uys so averse to playing ugly bastards? Does it remind you all too much of reality? I feel like I'm the only who enjoys this archetype.
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Because most fat, ugly guys involved in /tg/ also have been programmed by their moms to believe that if they're just NICE then girls will like them - and by extension the only men who can be bastards are pretty boys all of which is practically the opposite of the truth.
>the only men who can be bastards are pretty boys all of which is practically the opposite of the truth
This is as much of a cope as thinking that women will like you if you're nice. Good looks = social status = power = being a c**t. Of course you really need to add money to the equation to reach peak c**t levels but most people are not fundamentally good and they will abuse what little power or status they are afforded by life.
Ugly Bastard archetype as a player character only works if you're playing an evil character. Evil is ugly, good is beauty. That's why tabletop groups rarely has an ugly bastard PC in their parties, they generally play good aligned campaigns.
This. Your exterior appearance is a reflection of your soul.
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t. ugly
I guess Little John was the actual villain of Robin Hood, huh? homosexual
>thieving Black person
Yeah I would say so, the b***h even lies about himself with his own nickname
Little John was fat and ugly, but he wasn't a bastard
>Little John was fat and ugly
So he's evil. Got it.
I've got no problem with it.
Didn't know this was really a thing people had a problem with.
That's fricking next level 'tism right there.
Why would you expect people to? Ugly things are not liked, more or less by definition.
>Ugly things are not liked, more or less by definition.
the definition would not explain popularity of pugs
I played literal mongrelfolks with diseased skin, humanoid and leathery scaley skin. They were just skinny.
yeah anons here are just being pretentious.
>Why are fa/tg/uys so averse to playing ugly bastards?
Citation needed
>Does it remind you all too much of reality?
Bait
>I feel like I'm the only who enjoys this archetype.
I feel like you´re a homosexual who makes shit threads.
>Citation: Whenever somebody posts art of the character they are currently playing, it is always an anime girl.
A provably false assertion, so the entire thread is in fact groundless bait.
Based. Show this trash the door.
>posts
online games are nogaemz, but everyone that knows knew that about you anyways
I just want a good fighting game RPG where I can play as Abigail.
>Why are fa/tg/uys so averse to playing ugly bastards? Does it remind you all too much of reality? I feel like I'm the only who enjoys this archetype.
What is the "ugly bastard" archetype? I have played characters that have been considered ugly before but I tried to play him as a good guy. I honestly don't get people who want to play evil characters and I don't see how you would do it in a game with good or neutrally aligned PCs.
>I honestly don't get people who want to play evil characters
Wow so you have the imagination of roadkill then? You literally don't get it at all, like a genuine autist?
Lol this is not a valid argument, and you are sentenced to continue blowing your dad for the next 2 years.
>thinking only evil characters show creative depth in the writer
>hurr evil is so creative
I bet you jerk off to the Snyder cut at least once a month.
A well written character is a well written character regardless of alignment.
"Ugly bastard" is a porn trope, not a character archetype.
Why not, tho? Ugly bastard is just an evil-aligned character with low charisma-type stats and unreasonably high social skills.
Honestly, fat sleasy merchant with golden tongue and way too many connections being a party face would be a breath of fresh air compared to your typical seduce-everything-that-moves bard, while playing identically the same.
I'd agree with your general point but the fact that you call it the ugly bastard archetype makes me reconsider. Alright I thought about it and my answer is frick off and stop injecting your disgusting fetishes into the game
I've played jolly fat and tough ugly characters, but not ugly fat bastards. How ugly, how fat and how bastard is acceptable before turning into magical realm?
I did play a cannibalistic ugly (boils on face, missing nose) bastard (of a major Noble house) in our not! 30 years war campaign. Good times. When playing GURPS you get compensated for the drawbacks of being ugly with extra points you can spend on other things, so it's not only superficial or a complete drawback.
I’m actually quite handsome and relatively fit.
I play R.P.G.s for escapism. If I wanted to be a disgusting, anti-social blob no woman would ever willingly touch I'd just live my life.
What is the difference between a great hero and generic one?
I played an ugly evil fat bastard in an online roleplaying game for a while, it was fun the amount you could get away with with people even when you're being supremely antagonistic because they think you're funny
Only an actual ugly bastard would project this hard.
I like to keep my fetishes out of my games.
I played a psychopathic murdering rapist bandit as one of my favorite characters.
my next planned character is a barbarian named Kor, Taker of Widows he drinks from the skulls of his enemies while plundering their wealth and ravaging their wives and daughters as spoils of victory. He is also canonically ugly af while also being ripped, in fact so ugly he wears an ox skull over his face
Yeah
It makes me cringe picturing you fat fricks describing rape actions at a table with other adults having to listen. Absolute neckbeards.
whats wrong with rape?
t. actual rapist
Lets not pretend that you have friends or a table of adults wanting to listen to you in the first place.
Any sexual actions in my group would be extremely awkward. We're all 30+ dudes in our group, describing sex in a roleplay setting, nevermind rape, would be fricking weird.
Ever ponder how everyone is cool with the murder, but not the intimacy?
Because I've been taught self-inserting is bad practice
I love it, my last character was a Ming the Merciless-style bald weirdo with a sex-offender goatee and a bold (eye watering) sartorial style.
Animu pretty boys are for babby's first OC.
I feel the average looking large guy is very popular. Even the bastorious variaty.
But to specifically describe your character as fat and ugly.
That's the hallmark of a character whos creators modivations steams from wanting to be annoying or disruptive ya know?
The worst part of a against the grain character.
I could see being fat and ugly working as a character with insecurities, who feels unworthy of the epic adventure they go on. Does remove the bastard though.
The F&U bastard just needs a core, a justifying reason to be against the world, like the adventure takes place in a large, rich, corrupt city where every one pretends they're better than what they are.
So then at lest the bastard is honest about who he is.
I like to sprinkle generally considered unattractive descriptions onto my characters like giving them crooked noses or chipped teeth or underbites or warts or stringy hair or whatnot, but not explicitly call them 'ugly' because that's really up to the individual. Usually it doesn't matter at all, it's just a flavor thing I like to do since I like the idea of a world famous hero being like, this greasy gremlin girl with thick facial hair. good luck carving a statue of that one lmao
I like being a pretty pretty princess.
I play fat, ugly characters in tabletop games but that's also genuine fantasy to me. Sorry fa/tg/uys, you should have just hit the gym in high school and realized you were better at bodybuilding than most fratbros anyways.
I dunno, most groups I've been in always had at least one.
My favorite was an ogre chef, he was funny. Imagine getting an ogre sized fist full of spices tossed in your face before having your skull caved in with an ogre sized cast iron pan.
I am very ugly in real life were talking 2/10 , why on earth would I want to play a fantasy game where I am also an ugly bastard. Not that my characters are gorgeous but they certainly arent ugly
I almost always play a fat guy, both in tg and, when an option, vg. Bastard or jolly.
Because role-playing is about pretending to be something you're *not*
My halfling rogue is just as much of a degenerate as me IRL
One of my closest friends that regularly plays rpgs with me is heavily obese. I've been tempted to play a fat ugly bastard in games before, but I'm worried he would just take it as jabs at his expense.
He is working on his weight lately and it's not like it's a sensitive topic with him, but I don't want to be a dick to a good pal just so I can roleplay pudge.
Don't fricking make fun of him you moron. Unless he starts it.
Play a terrifying fat frick who is totally into it. Start every word with a B. Shake your jowels. When you knock someone down, sit on them and crush them to death. When you get cut, just laugh and taunt your attacker for not even getting past the blubber before eating them alive.
>Why are fa/tg/uys so averse to playing ugly bastards?
Speak for yourself.
Ugly Bastard is a Japanese porn archetype coombrain, and the reason nobody plays it is because it's a very boring character type to play once you've done it one or two times. Evil characters can be fun, and disfigured/ugly characters can have interesting RP, but Ugly Bastard implies a very limited and generic personality archetype.
tl;dr it's boring and you need to watch less Jap porn
I, for one, enjoy playing Ogres.
Speak for yourself. I usually only setup miserable pathetic characters so I can imagine an arc of growth through his journey. Maybe if he grows enough, daddy will come home with his cigarettes and love me again
The world is shitty enough as it is. you should always strive to be good
Being fat is a moral failing so fatties should be an always evil race
I love playing ugly bastards and I'm a total twinkboy cutiepie.
I knew a dude who couldn't stand being a character who wasn't a hundred degree hottie. He nearly broke down when his Mutant in Heroes Unlimited rolled pebbly skin and lost 3 points of Physical Beauty.
I had to convince him it was a condition he could work towards curing. It's like people can't handle having a little misfortune hitting their character because they have misfortunes in their own lives
Human psychology naturally associates being fat (and being ugly) with being less intelligent, less trustworthy, and less capable in any task. Additionally, most people play RPGs to play - if not some sort of ideal - then some sort of interesting exception to the norm. Some fat ugly person is neither.
Speaking purely for myself I actually have played a character who was explicitly unattractive, and not in a 'cool' way, but in a 'someone left this long-faced hick out in the sun too long until he dried out' sense. No fatties, though. Come to think of it, even when DMing, while I often had people who were ugly I almost never had people who were fat. Unless an ogre counts.
Most of my characters dump CHA. I have never explicitly played a character who is described as fat or ugly though. Maybe I should.
The closest to this was a low INT and CHA barbarian character I played who's backstory was that he came from a lost island where dinosaurs still exist and humans are primitive cavemen.
I played one once in a post apoc game. His name was Orgasmo, he was gigantic obese cannibal, who as a "Baseline" Human, was stronger and more durable than the Not super mutants of the setting. He only referred to himself in third person as ORGASMO, KING OF THE WASTES
He started the game by ripping the cell the party was kept in out of the wall, grabbing a guard dog by its tail, using it as a bludgeon to kill the other dog with it, before punching through the head of their handler/ the prison guard, while roaring "STARE INTO THE FIST OF ORGASMO"
He also ate corpses during firefights, if he got hungry/ as an intimidation tactic, which usually lead to him also eating most of the other sides bullets as they tried to drop the ogre eating their dead buddies
The more freakshit a character, the more ugly the player is IRL. Bonus points for playing a female
Pic related is me, I only play white male human fighters
didnt know you played freakshit anon. you're ugly as frick.
Pure cope
Depends on the campaign/character. Just being ugly for the sake of being ugly is as fun as it is being hideous in real life.
This dude isn't even ugly, other than being fat.
I don't mind playing as an ugly character as long as I can get my friends to laugh at my overly exaggerated facial expressions when I fail endeavors and perform misdeeds. And I like to bring their guard down as a fatfrick so that when I actually do or say something cool they almost always lose their shit, it's funny.