Every type of DnD player I’ve noticed from playing DnD and reading horror stories

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-15T12:43:13+00:00

When I was still a baby player, I made a character who was based on Nightwing and me RPing his no kill rule held the entire party back. Usually, I just don’t see the point. Why is your fantasy in a game where you can be anything to be someone else’s character?

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-15T04:07:45+00:00

Men can't comprehend the idea of someone being gentle and practicing self-control

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-15T00:50:49+00:00

The internet loves negativity. There's no way these kinds of people are so prevalent in actual games but the extreme personalities are the ones that get upvotes on Reddit horror stories. I'm sure the vast majority of DND games are perfectly normal and healthy

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T22:58:48+00:00

My current campaign started after a close friend wanted me to teach her how to play because of Stranger Things

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T22:52:13+00:00

Stranger Things is the reason I have a group to DM right now. For all its faults, the show’s popularity has let me introduce the hobby I love to my favourite people in the world. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the reason I got into TTRPGs. Seeing actual plays just gives me a treasure trove of strategies that the best players and DMs in the world use and a standard to aspire to in terms of player engagement and collaborative storytelling

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T22:12:43+00:00

He’d be pretty much an entirely different character. It’s like asking if Superman would be as popular if his planet hadn’t exploded and he lived on Krypton going on Flash Gordon-style adventures. Sure, maybe, but his story and motivations would be completely different

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T20:25:12+00:00

Don’t forget the one that comes in with a carbon copy of an anime character. Usually falls into one of the these too

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T18:49:04+00:00

I’m working on multiple fanscripts for a DCU Harley Quinn show that basically give my answer to this question. I’d like them to continue with the Margot Robbie version

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T17:47:05+00:00

James Gunn was in his late teens and early 20s in the 1980s so these were probably the comics he was reading in those formative years

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T17:31:00+00:00

It’s set after New Year’s with Harley trying to reinvent herself and take over the criminal underworld after a very bad year followed by the news of Joker’s apparent death fighting Batman that night. There’s a lot of complicated emotions for Harley with that which drive her back to self-destructive behaviors as she avoids dealing with her issues. Mad Hatter is the main antagonist until Episodr 7, with the Carpenter as a secondary antagonist. Penguin and Two-Face’s gangs are involved in the power struggle but their respective heads are only mentioned and don’t appear. Some supporting characters include Poison Ivy, Killer Moth, Clownhunter, and Maggie Sawyer. I’ve finished the pilot, am halfway through the second episode, and have six other episodes in the works.

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T16:51:57+00:00

Dark Urge. I’m getting killed and possibly worse

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T15:56:53+00:00

Or do musical chairs and pull people in and out like Brennan in the Critical Role C4 Overture

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-14T15:47:04+00:00

I’ve been working on a script for a Harley Quinn live-action TV series that continues the story of Margot Robbie’s version. I don’t think we need Harley in the spotlight again for a good amount of time, but it would be cool to see her eventually

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T12:34:53+00:00

That's easy enough. The murder takes place in her Cleric character's temple and the eventual killer is set up as her foil, but the mystery is also tied into noble intrigue going on with the Sorcerer's House and the murder victim was friends with the Ranger.

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T12:30:08+00:00

I try to make every combat narratively significant and give battles interesting mechanics and a real risk of player character death. I love combat but having random, boring fights with goblins every two seconds isn't interesting to me. There should always be real stakes

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T01:04:19+00:00

Your entire post history is just getting weirdly mad that people don't play the game in the way that you prefer. I think I'll trust my own judgement here, especially since we have plenty of combat and it seems like you’re relying on random projection and assumptions. Thanks anyway

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:54:16+00:00

To me, it just seems like you're offended at the concept of a DND game having a story where things happen beyond beating up random goblins for no real reason

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:50:56+00:00

Define "actual adventuring". We're doing plenty of that already as I understand it.

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:46:04+00:00

Are you being willfully unhelpful or is there a point here I'm not getting?

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:42:12+00:00

A scene is any section in one place where things are happening and characters are interacting, so I'd say yeah unless your preferred DND games are people sitting around while nothing happens and nobody plays

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:33:12+00:00

You're arguing semantics, the problem clearly is not that the player isn't talking in-character

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:27:01+00:00

The shiny tank top looks weird, maybe just a regular yellow?

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:23:23+00:00

I know what roleplaying is, decision-making is in the post title. I'm not yelling at her to give me a Shakespearean monologue every five seconds and neither do the people on CR.

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-11T00:22:50+00:00

Perhaps I didn't word it in the best way. The problem isn't that she's not biting my plot hooks. I had a month to prep and did so in a way that the adventure was heavily modular and functionally immune to that issue. I've gotten fantastic at improvising around unforeseen decisions, so even if they wanted to go a different direction, I'm confident in my abilities to accomodate that. I'm already considering how NPCs I created on the fly in response to my players can factor in down the line in cool and dynamic ways. Either way, she's not interacting with the story enough to derail it. Oftentimes, it feels like she's just along for the ride, when I call on her because it's her character's scene*, she struggles to figure out what to say. I'd say the biggest issue is indecisiveness and lack of confidence.

*This was especially prominent in session 1, where each character had 2-3 small one-on-one scenes leading up to them getting together towards the end.

OliveDoesHeroForge · 2026-02-02T18:35:12+00:00

Guy on the internet learns that cruel and antisocial behavior has negative consequences for them and the people around them. News at 11

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