That Guy/DM thread

>>53520135
>5e
>half the team are extraordinary OP homebrew classes

sounds about right

>>53520135
i mean, your gm isnt wrong. Who wouldnt be suspicious about somebody sneaking into their base?

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Would have set a DC 25 bluff check for that shit

looks like you are playing with a bunch of faggots and you too

>>53520135
Who is supposed to be That Guy in this situation?

>>53520135
I need your help /tg/ a player applied for my group and the character he sent in kinda shows that guy red flags.

He is:
>ignoring half of the rules and dependencies in the rulebook and basically cheats himself massive advantages.
>minmaxing without a roleplay concept just chosing the biggest numbers in everything
>haircolor: black & blond
>eyecolor: blue with golden stars in the iris

Should I accept? I'm not sure if point 1 & 2 is actually a thing he said it wasn't intentional but it's the third time he "accidentaly" slips in errors.

>>53520967
Dont accept, he's probably going to be a That Guy

>>53520820
The DM was right to have the bugbear be suspicious, but he could have at least had the guy roll bluff with disadvantage or something instead of outright being 'no, muh story!'

>>53520135
While you seem to enjoy creative solutions and more sequence breaking, everyone else wants to do a more hack & slash by the book campaign. You're just not a good fit for this group

>>53520967
No. At best, he's an idiot and not a cheater, but he's still making a min-maxed special snowflake.

>Be DM
>Party is 5 PCs
>PC's go to the town jail looking for an NPC they believe to be locked up.
>rouge in the party is known around town and is wary about going inside, so she and the monk elect to poke around the jail's exterior while the other 3 go inside.
>me "ok, we'll do the 3 inside first and come back to you guys"
>about a few minutes into the party split, the rogue gets up from the table, walks into the kitchen, and lays down on the ground to play with the host's dog.
>me: "can you come back to the table?"
>rogue: "I will when it's my turn"
>me: "if I get to the point where the focus is on you and you're not at the table, I'm moving forward with just the monk at that point, and your character will come back when the party comes together again"

I'm new to DMing so I'm constantly trying to avoid being That DM because MY first DM was that DM and it almost ruined the game for me, but I found this to be extremely rude and I honestly couldn't think of a better way to handle it in the moment. Was I being That DM here?

And more importantly, was there a better way I could have handled the situation? Or that I can address it to prevent it from being a big deal in the future?

>>53523711
I would slap her if she pulled out shit like "but my character wasn't there, so I don't need to know what happened". This means that everyone would need to explain everything that happened, instead of just saying "I explain to them what happened when we were split". Waste of fucking time, could be easily avoided, but no, the bitch didn't want to sit there for 10 minutes.

The dog wasn't nailed to the floor, why not call it to her and keep listening to the story?

>>53520135
I'm sorry to hear that your creative choices upset your shit dm and mary sue companions. I hope your next session is better, and if not, I hope that you have the sense to drop that crew.

>>53520967
Ask him about said red flags and mistakes. See how he responds and go from there. Likely you should drop him, but he might just be unfamiliar with the rules and like anime which could both be addressed pretty easily.

>>53523711
Just ask them to do it near enough to hear the story.

>>53520903
The OP is. Because of course it is. Whenever the OP of a That Guy/That GM thread starts off with a story, odds are better than 50/50 that he is unknowingly That Guy. It's some form of universal irony, I think, kind of like a grammar nazi writing something incorrect in their rant about proper grammar.

Oh, don't think I pegged this OP as that guy immediately, I didn't! 50/50 still has a chance. But nope, he split from the party, he thinks he should be able, as a human, to convince a bugbear smart enough to find him coming up his escape hatch suspicious that he isn't there to kill them, he's the one judging the other players immediately upon seeing they do things differently, he's That Guy.

>>53523711
I get it. I recently had a surgery that meant for a few months it was WAY more comfortable to stand up and move around every few minutes than continue sitting. I stayed close by, within the same room, and paying attention. Maybe other than the first time, I think I was still on painkillers first session after the surgery...

my best friend of ~20 years is dming a campaign and is the definition of that dm
His dmpc is a better fighter than the fighter, knows more about magic than the wizard, more about religion than the monk, and more about everything else than the bard.
The first time he's introduced it's to "save" us from an encounter that he's admitted to going into having already decided we lost
The second time he's literally surrounded by dozens of dead enemies and "decapitates the last three in one swing" as soon as we show up

I have a burning question. Is the character I'm planning to run for an upcoming game That Guy material?

We're playing in a Victorian England and basically he's a standard dick ass thief character except he's actually 13 and a little Oliver Twist style urchin boy. Basically he's a little troublemaker but he'd never instigate anything much worse than stealing the silverware and embroiling himself in low-stakes antics.

>>53526370
Depends entirely on how annoying yippy play him but he certainly has the potential

>>53526370
Depends if you steal from the party or not.

>>53526414
I was planning to keep it pretty low key in that department. Mostly just playing off the fish out of water angle as everyone else seems to be bringing a character with at least some level of class
>>53526416
Worst offense might be trying to make off with all the cutlery in a burlap sack. None of that "I pickpocket my friend and take all of her jewelry/weapons/etc."

>>53526451
Then just play the adorable scamp of a character you've described. Avoid lolrandom shit and it'll be fine.

>>53523711
I could understand if you're a real stickler about meta gaming knowledge, since the best way to make sure you aren't mixing things you do and don't know is to not hear things your character shouldn't. But if you don't really care, or intended in having the party relay the info without any obstacles, then it was pretty rude to just leave like that.

>>53520135
>Female player
>Wants to be one of those none-deistic clerics
>Worships the concept of "Ubershit".
>Has her cleric wandering around talking about poop all the time.
>Tries to fit in spells that for some reason or another she aligns with feces
>Puts on this weird face and says how "all must hail the MIGHTY UBERSHIT" in a forced monotone
>Occasionally brings pictures of turds in toilets or being held by people as her "character's devotional icons".

I keep asking the GM to kick her, but no luck yet.

>>53527090
What the fuck am I reading?

>>53520135
You appear to have joined a group that thinks 5e is pathfinder. Next time you play, what you do is leave early, barricade the houses and burn it down.

That'll learn then.