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Any advice for playing D&D games?
| If you let the other guys know, you could see whether they'd like to come up with suggestions for what your character can do. Say you're having a conversation with an NPC and one of the other players realises they could be blackmailed in some way. Then they could suggest that your character is the one to actually perform the blackmail in-game
| Alternatively, aren't there a lot of options in GURPS for abstracting away the manipulation/intelligence stuff if you're not so good at it yourself? Like, get a talent that lets you roll to see if you have a useful item with you rather than having to do all the planning yourself
| Lastly, you could think about how your character would behave, given their talents. Would they see others as playthings, or treat life as a game? Do they reflexively get others to do their work for them, or plan far enough ahead that they get what they want without having to be so overt?
| Well,yes. I guess fleshing out my characters personally would help me act that way,I am already getting a better picture of how to act. Although we're still just trying this role-playing thing out(Like all those sessions we restarted because someone else joined or whatnot) and basically we didn't prepare this RP all that much. Guess I shouldn't be this paranoid cause I haven't really made my character do something completely retarded.
| After all if he gets himself killed I can always make a more simple man. A gun nut with a pirates code of honor!
| Glad to see other roleplayers here. ^^
| >>146385 I know. In general a character spreadsheet makes normies run for the hills! Imagine the horror in their eyes when you ask them to read the first chapter of the ruleset?
| >>146413
Haha, yes indeed.
In my homebrews I try to mollify this a bit by just having them make a character and then teach them the game as things come up. I've found it's a lot easier when you break things down into "roll a d20 and hope you have a number higher than this other number," and "add these numbers to your dice roll and that determines if you survive or not."
"Also yes you may throw your swo-"
"...ok, apparently you one shotted the boss. Enjoy your loot."
| I always wanted to play pen & paper RPGs, but not online (like on Discord or something) but irl. Never had noone to play with, even friends that wanted to play too. Idk why we always fail to make a session. They always seem to want to play something different, like some vidya. Any advices for me?
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| I and a couple of guys I met on some forum roleplay on discord during weekends. However despite having played 3-4 sessions already I am still not that confident in being able to play as my intelligent manipulatior character(as personally I am nether smart or convincing). We use the GURPS ruleset as btw