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Why would that bother you?
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As a GM, I'd probably just be happy that one of my players was interested enough in my setting to be inspired to build upon/from it.
As a player, why would I care that someone else started with the same seed for a build that I had? I wouldn't be bothered... I'd be paying closer attention, taking mental notes on what works & what doesn't, and thinking of ways to make my build unique from the other player's.
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I only play a reasonable well-balanced person on TV. Maybe the time change switch has thrown me off... I promise I'll try to be more cranky and unreasonable tomorrow. :)
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When you are the Dungeon Master –
Don’t you just feel sick when someone other than you comes up with an idea for something they think should be in your campaign world?
My group's homebrew setting was designed specifically to allow for all our players to contribute. We have, among other things, two entire countries and cultures contributed by one player, and a completely new take on elves contributed by another.
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When you are the Dungeon Master –
Don’t you just feel sick when someone other than you comes up with an idea for something they think should be in your campaign world?
You know, I want to turn this around. Let the players come up with the important stuff. Tell your players they can play anything they want, as long as they come up with a good motivation and some backstory, then start from there.
My example that I will probably never play would be Thar Thunderhammer. He went on a quest to get enough money to be able to afford the bride price of Thrudd, daughter of the patriarch of the Lightninghammer clan. When he returned from his life as a mercenary he found the home of the Lightninghammer and Thunderhammer clans destroyed and looted, his brothers missing, and monsters were roaming in the mines. He swore an oath that day that he would find his surviving brothers, arm them with the missing weapons and kill those responsible.
This could be the start of an entire solocampaign. now imagine you'd have 4 stories like this and you could build an entire campaign setting based around that.
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My group's homebrew setting was designed specifically to allow for all our players to contribute. We have, among other things, two entire countries and cultures contributed by one player, and a completely new take on elves contributed by another.When you are the Dungeon Master –
Don’t you just feel sick when someone other than you comes up with an idea for something they think should be in your campaign world?
It helps that the introduction to said setting was running Kingmaker, which, in and of itself means we're contributing a heavy influence to the world. That particular band of misfits would not have been independently created by any sane GM.
>_>
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You are the one who has been quoted as saying the chaotic evil warmage is the most well-adjusted member of the party!
Back on topic, I'm one of said players who has contributed to Orthos' world. It's been a great help in getting invested in the hobby, helping decide the flavor of each area most suited to running campaigns we'd eventually like to run, especially since we all take turns GMing. It'd be a hindrance to say the least if we weren't allowed input.
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Without player input, my world would be a much less exciting place to play.
I've never felt that. Everyone comes up with everything before I do, so there's no problem. :)
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When you are the Dungeon Master –
Don’t you just feel sick when someone other than you comes up with an idea for something they think should be in your campaign world?
Or, when you are a Player –
Does your stomach knot up when someone else recommends a character build that you haven’t used before?
I know I get floored whenever I have to deal, face to face, with the notion that someone else created something I didn’t think of first.
I know they now have Swiftamine® for when you get vertigo realizing you love Taylor Swift, but what do they have for that deep down in your gut sickness that comes from realizing other people created something for your favorite RPG before you thought of it?
How long will it be before , Other People Creating Stuff (OPCS) strikes you or someone you love?
What do I do when somebody creates something great before me? I SHANK 'EM and take their stuff for MY own! AND NO WITNESSES- they gotta go too! Life's too short to let other peoples' good ideas go to waste (in their hands).
And besides, the dead stiff DID SAY the thought you should have the idea (whether it be in your world or your character.) Good enough to count as Last Will and Testimony in my opinion! (It's MY opinion, NOT yours.)
But even if I didn't shank 'em and take their stuff, I'd at least take it with grace, and if the idea appealed to me, might explore puttin' it in. Life's too short to let other peoples' ideas go to waste.
Why would that bother you?It doesn't bother me
"Swiftamine" was a bit from last weeks Saturday Night Live
It was supposed to be a joke
I did not pull it off successfully
Ah.
A) Didn't get the joke. (Never been a big SNL fan.)
B) The post just left me confused, as the premise didn't sound like you at all.
Why would that bother you?It doesn't bother me
"Swiftamine" was a bit from last weeks Saturday Night Live
It was supposed to be a joke
I did not pull it off successfully
Ok... I will admit this is the strangest topic I think I have ever seen. That it is a failed joke makes much more sense.
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Yes I had moments like that.... and then I turned 12.
LOL
This is one of the weirdest threads I ever have seen on this forum. Why would I be distressed by any of the things the op mentioned in his post. A player in one of the games I'm in asked I play a half-elf Bard instead of human. Another asked if I would mind playing a Oracle. I can say with 200% certainty that my stomach did not knot up. We have a player with rules mastery in the group as well. Neither the DM nor myself nor the rest of the players get floored by any of his feat combos.
With all that is bad in the real world getting bothered by stuff in a rpg seems like one can't handle the real world imo.
Yes I had moments like that.... and then I turned 12.LOL
This is one of the weirdest threads I ever have seen on this forum. Why would I be distressed by any of the things the op mentioned in his post. A player in one of the games I'm in asked I play a half-elf Bard instead of human. Another asked if I would mind playing a Oracle. I can say with 200% certainty that my stomach did not knot up. We have a player with rules mastery in the group as well. Neither the DM nor myself nor the rest of the players get floored by any of his feat combos.
With all that is bad in the real world getting bothered by stuff in a rpg seems like one can't handle the real world imo.
Yeah, apparently this thread was meant to be a joke. ;)
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I don't get the thread.
Surely you jest.
