D&Ds: Rant about your characters and the game itself

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What do you think of Dungeons and Dragons?
Do you have an awesome character?
Rant on!

I love the game in theory but it stresses me out more than anything else because the last two campaigns I played, I was the healer with high intelligence and charisma, so it always fell on me to make decisions for the group or flirt/negotiate with encounters to get out of sticky situations.

I am rubbish at making decisions or knowing what to do in any given situation, plus I am really bad at flirting and negotiating. I kept getting anxiety and panic attacks having to roleplay a character that doesn't come naturally to me.

I know I should choose other classes to play but I really like patching up hurt people.

You could always create a new character for a sort of test drive, something you think you'd be happier with. If it turns out to be better, keep that character. If not, you can always fall back on your healer character.

Yeah I was thinking if I ever play again, I would have to try a stupid character that's easy to role play. I'm just bad at thinking on my feet and knowing the right things to do or say.

I had more fun playing ordinary, single-classed human clerics, fighters, and thieves under 1st and 2nd edition rules than I ever had playing an essentially super-human character with skills and feats taken from each of the original four classes.

Today's players seem to be too caught up in the features of their characters to ever do any real role-playing.

I now play Marc Miller's Traveller almost exclusively, even though I may use Classic, GURPS, or Mongoose rules in any given game.

The last time I played D&D, I had a player who couldn't separate the game from WoW. >_> That game didn't last long though.

It's hard to find people who play that want to focus on the RP, rather than the min-maxing. I blame MMOs for that.

Are we talking about 3.0-3.5?

When in doubt, roll a human cleric. Give them 10 str, 10 dex, 14 con, 14 int, 16 wis, 14 cha. Put all your bonus stats into wis and congrats, you're awesome from 1 to 20!

What version?

one of the boxed Sets?
Cyclopedia?
AD&D 1st?
Ad&D 2nd?
AD&D 3.0?
AD&D 3.5?
AD&D 4.0?
AD&D 4.1?
D&D 5th?

Please specify!

My whole gaming group consists of people who do very little role-playing. Drives me nuts. I'm a version 4.0 mapmaker, and it sucks to have a carefully crafted dungeon simply blown through. They just fight all the monsters and call it done.

For Adventus:
Any one you care to choose, although you may want to mention which version you play so that others shan't be confused.

i have played several campaigns in 4th edition and one in pathfinder (an adaptation of 3.5)
i usually play a high wisdom, medium intelligence and low charisma character (druids, avengers, rogues, that kind of tea), so that i dont have to be the face, but more the eyes and ears of the group.
somewhere during the 3rd campaign, i realised i always roleplay autistic characters as well; usually quiet and reserved, making thought-out desisions (except for that one cleptomanic rogue, but buy was he fun), although i they usually stood their ground if needed.

in one campaign, i played an avenger, and one of my groupfriends was an AoE wizard that liked to blast the area i was in (i was surrounded by enemies usually, due to my build; if i get hit i do more damage).
however, he was unlucky with the dice in that he usually only hit 1 of the 4 or 5 enemies in the blast, for low damage, but did a critical on me.
in-character, it looked as if it was deliberate, and got nearly killed twice due to that; i then warned him (in character) that it was the last time i'd forgive him.
now of course, it happened a third time that he threw a fireball at the group i was in (while having other targets), so i got angry and unleashed all the power i could in a single turn (a movement action attack, minor action attack, daily attack and another daily from an action point; the movement also got me hit on provoced attacks, triggering my bonus damage a few times)); i think i did about 200 damage in him in that single turn (he had 60 hitpoints at a maximum, so the biggest part we found of him was one of his thumbs)

When rolling character stats (1st & 2nd Ed., only), who uses six unmodified 3d6 rolls, in order, to start their character?

Who puts the six rolls in any order they want?

Who uses 4d6, and discards the lowest die?

Who uses 3d4+6 or 5d4-2 instead?

Any other dice-rolling variants?

The fact that my mother still is against it and thinks it is very negative and not uplifting and I could be doing better things with my time and even

I though people no longer believed in that nonsense that DnD was of the devil and she doesn' even remotely act like those people who are all like "DnD is against God" and stuff. It's strange... She is totally okay with stuff like Pokemon, LARPing (related to DnD), even violent first-person shooters, heck, when it comes to homosexuality, she is tolerant of that, but DnD? Nope, that's where it draws the line.

Of course, I'm 19 and capable of making my own decisions, but still...

Is she against "fun" in general?

No, she just isn't against fun, she just thinks I could be doing something more positive with my life.

Had a group member once try to tiptoe past an ogre in full armor. End result: Big ogre chasing stupid human fighter down the mutiple dungeon halls.

I had a simular experience growing up with my dad. Except his negativity was from both the "DnD waste of time" and the "DnD is against God". When I was 11 he found some Classic DnD books I had borrowed from a friend and, force me to burn them in the fire place. It's always been a strain on our relationship and, is why I spent a lot of time away from home while he was married to my mother. When I think back on it now I kind of wish that someone had been more possitive about my interest in DnD. Maybe help me channel it into something productive like writing or game design. As it stands I always feel like my interest in games is something I have to hide and protect. It's something I almost never talk about at work even if I know the other person is a gamer.