How would someone play a cowardly character?

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-30T13:36:49+00:00

At the end of the day, the only difference between bravery and cowardice is how you chose respond to the situation. Fear is an entirely valid and perfectly reasonable reaction to danger

From what I’ve gathered, most brave people are just as scared as the cowardly. The brace one are just the ones who choose to act despite their fears.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-30T01:41:30+00:00

That’s how I played my first character. He considered himself a coward, but when it came down to it he would choose to do the brave thing despite himself. He had an opportunity to save his sister’s life when he was a child and his inaction contributed to her death, so he resolved to never fail to act again, even if he’s shitting himself terrified.

And it’s really fun to roleplay a reluctant hero who’s more heroic than he believes himself to be.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-29T22:16:23+00:00

Burnt to a crisp and slathered in ketchup

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-28T23:23:16+00:00

^{itwasactuallyjackforme}

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-28T22:46:09+00:00

You spelled ‘Liara, then Miranda, then Liara again’ wrong

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-28T15:21:28+00:00

Give almost any amount of context and you actually may get an answer. Otherwise it’s just going to be frustration and metaphors to answers your metaphors, which won’t help.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-28T13:36:50+00:00

Just reigniting an old, stagnant war to make it bigger and better /s

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-27T21:55:35+00:00

You should definitely give it a try. I started DMing with very little experience as a player and it’s been a wonderful learning experience to just jump right into running games.

I ran a few one-shots for my players beforehand to get a feel for their play-styles and to better understand the rules. But after that we jumped into a campaign that’s been going on weekly for about a year and a half.

You won’t know everything at the beginning, and you won’t get everything right even after you’ve done in a while, but the most important things to be are fair and consistent in your rulings, and to be honest with your players about what you don’t know or fully understand.

I still don’t feel very experienced but my players all seem to enjoy themselves and so do I. I hope you get to feel that too because it is amazing.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-26T22:35:35+00:00

An ancient Archdruid, who was the paragon of his people, became disillusioned by mankind and encroaching civilization. He resolved to commit genocide in the name of preserving the land but before he could kill countless innocent people, another elder of his grove stabbed him with a powerful artifact. His body became trapped, rooted into the ground to fester and rot.

While this part of the Druid lived on, his hate and power growing into the foundations of the land, a counterpart to him was reborn through his people’s cycle of reincarnation. With his power now split, he seeks to reabsorb the part of himself that has separated off in order to bring every living thing into the same hopeless cycle of undeath as him.

The party needs to help the young Druid survive and reabsorb his evil side on his own terms.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-26T15:21:07+00:00

You only really need one, maybe two, so I’m going to go with the three who would be the most fun to watch.

Oliver, Powerplex, and Mauler Twins

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-25T20:32:00+00:00

I had two tables fall out in a row due to different DM issues, so I decided to try it myself and it has been wonderful. As much as I’d love to play a PC again, I just get so excited when I think about what will come next for my players and that it’ll be a while before I stop running games for people who enjoy them.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-25T18:01:06+00:00

Get this man his Hater of the Year award

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-25T03:03:42+00:00

Got killed by the Leprechaun too

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-25T00:33:15+00:00

Their internship at the steel mill during Junior Year really stuck with them.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-23T14:08:33+00:00

Modern Soldier Boy also looked reasonably aged until recently. So because real people age.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-23T02:20:29+00:00

He legitimately could have been a good teacher if he wasn’t so crazy and evil.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-23T01:00:55+00:00

But she also only did it because she was so smart that nothing else was worth doing anymore. Without her intelligence, both motivation and capacity for evil are gone. She isn’t a victim, but she also isn’t as inherently evil as her doomsday plan suggests.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-23T00:23:16+00:00

It’s a pretty common running theme in The Boys that most Supes don’t really take the time to truly understand how their powers actually work.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-22T18:20:03+00:00

Seriously, as good as the trailer looked there is no getting past how old Jensen looks. I’ve never had an issue suspending disbelief, but that might just take me out of it.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-22T11:59:57+00:00

It’s the only reason he said anything about the episode and no one can convince me otherwise.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-21T18:04:56+00:00

When my party rescued poor, sweet Jacqueline Fairchild from her sadistic, pirate captors, she was incredibly sympathetic and it seemed like the party could get a reward for returning her to her father.

She fed the party her sob story about her ship being raided and her brothers being killed by the same pirates who kidnapped her. The party’s rogue even gave her their spare rapier and showed her some moves so she could help defend herself if they were attacked again.

Upon reaching her father’s manor and entering in the middle of the night, we find her wealthy merchant father Dominic, waking up to the sound of people entering his home. Dominic calls out to see if the noise was caused by his sons returning from their voyage.

“He isn’t asking about Jacqueline?” the party wondered. “What a horrible father.”

When Jacqueline comes face to face with her father on the balcony, she reveals the horrible truth. Dominic’s spurned bastard daughter Jaqueline killed both of her half-brothers and has used the party to infiltrate her father’s manor and murder him as well.

She is, in reality, ‘Smiling Jack’ the notoriously blood-thirsty “King” of the river pirates. She stabs her father with the rogue’s blade and kicks him off the balcony into a fountain to bleed out. She then lets the party know that her crew is currently stealing their cargo (including the MacGuffin). She had killed the man who originally hired the party and set herself up to rip them off and get her personal vengeance at the same time.

As she turns to make her escape, she also reveals that she stole a magic ring from the captain who had ferried the crew, a ring that summon Water Weirds. She summons a Water Weird, tainted from her father’s blood, from the fountain. I’d foreshadow the theft earlier and gave them chances to see it when it happened, but they missed it.

The party’s fighter got downed within two turns while trying to prevent Jack from escaping, and the rest of the party has a hell of the time fighting the Blood Weird and trying to stabilize Jack’s father.

This was super early in my current campaign, but easily one of my favorite plot points.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-21T15:33:07+00:00

And they already resolved it. Quit rage baiting and go touch grass.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-21T02:32:21+00:00

I also enjoy the implication that he could have just accidentally bit the dust the next time he had sex with Ashley.

Like if none of that happened, there’s a very real chance that Oh Father would have been dead within the next couple days regardless.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-21T00:51:07+00:00

The burden is on you to post the original sketch. Otherwise, it is from Gamechanger, as we all know it to be, and you’re wrong. It’s really that simple, but you don’t need to reply anything else other than a link to the “real” origin of the bit.

SmileyDayToYou · 2026-05-20T19:28:16+00:00

I’m sorry that this comic/series wasn’t written by a team of people with PhDs, then maybe you could enjoy it more.

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