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Goofus learned that Candy Land isn't actually made out of candy. The hard way.
Gallant calls ahead when he knows he can't make it to the game tonight.
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Goofus manipulates his players. He thinks it encourages good roleplaying if they all hate each other in real life.
Gallant organizes a surprise birthday party for the lonliest member of the group.
Goofus organizes a surprise birthday party for himself. He's just so... so lonely... *sniff*
Gallant's vigilante may resort to underhanded tactics to win the day, but he always makes sure that the innocent are kept safe no matter what.
Goofus argues that he should get the XP for the peasants and innocents he catches in the crossfire.
When the campaign is over and the realm is saved, Gallant's character declines the offer to become the king, as he feels he is unsuited for the job.
ALL HAIL GOD-EMPEROR GOOFUS!!!
Gallant places the ancient artifact he recovered from a ruin in a museum.
Goofus uses an ancient mummy as a coffee table, because as he is known to say, "If it is under glass in a stupid museum, than it can be under glass, as my coffee table, more people will see it that way anyway."
Gallant documents all archaeological finds with photo evidence, and leaves them where they were found, to avoid ruining their contextual significance.
Goofus uses his allies' weaknesses against them.
Gallant's monk trains and meditates every day to improve himself for the challenges ahead.
Goofus' 'monk' trains by going to the bar and getting into fights.
Even if Gallant can get books cheaper online, he still buys from the Friendly Local Game Store to show his support.
Goofus goes to his FLGS, brings his laptop and printer, and prints out PDF's of many books they sell there, laughs heartily, and offers to sell patrons at said FLGS his pirated printout copies for 1/4 the price.
Gallant respects Products Identity, and the Share and Share A Like laws when working on his budding 3PP, Noble Ink Studios.
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Goofus claims that because he is Chaotic Neutral in real life, Products Identity and the Share and Share A Like laws don't apply to him when he starts up his budding 3PP, Gimme You Money Ltd.
A swashbuckling adventure, a slain dragon, and a kingdom saved. Just an average Wednesday for Gallant.
Goofus bans all viewpoints that are not his own.
Gallant is an excellent listener.
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Goofus actually invented a hat with little gloves on the side with buckshot pellets in the fingertips for sticking in one's ears, and also features a miniature battery-powered phonograph on top that goes "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU...!"
Gallant casts snapdragon fireworks and shoots them harmlessly but spectacularly into the air to celebrate his nation's holiday, and even spends a bit of money on alchemical power components to make them even cooler-looking.
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Goofus casts Meteor Swarm over his nation's capitol to celebrate his nation's holiday, figuring that it's close enough to actual fireworks.
Even when it looks like he might finally be overwhelmed, Gallant never gives up.
Goofus' online handle is "xXR4G3QU17RXx"
Gallant sometimes makes his players a home cooked meal instead of the takeout the group usually gets on game night.
Goofus makes his players eat spoiled meat and worm-ridden mouldy bread, claiming it's what their 'iron rations' would really taste like.
Gallant studies a prepublished adventure thoroughly before running it, making sure he understands all the details, as well as changing the adventure to suit his group.
Goofus looks at the prepublished adventure that he's going to run his group through once, figures he'll add a few ancient dragons to spice up the boring talky bits, and calls it a day.
Gallant does his best to make sure that his players are never uncomfortable with the subject material of his campaign.
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The show "Fear Factor" was inspired by Goofus's DMing style.
Gallant studies historical texts on alchemy to better inspire the Alchemist character he's about to play. He even comes up with a few clever Archetypes and Discoveries based on his research, which impress his DM enough to allow Gallant to utilize them.
Goofus also always plays the healer, if you don't heal from negative energy, that is not his fault.
Gallant's noble fighter gives up finishing a fight with a hated rival to shield a fallen ally.
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Goofus decides to save a few dozen bucks and just design his psychological horror game by taking pointers from his old buddy GoatToucher.
Gallant doesn't believe everything he reads online about such-and-such classes being too weak or too powerful just because a vocal subset insists on it.
FIGHTER OP NERF PLZ
- Goofus
Gallant takes the time to make sure that his Will Save is good, so that enemies can never mind-control him.
Goofus plays a half-storm giant orc frenzied berserker.
Gallant gives his monstrous humanoid race PC's interesting social challenges and RP hooks centered on their "otherness", but never mobs with pitchforks and torches.
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Goofus defies class stereotypes to create obnoxious characters that Ship-of-Theseus the class to oblivion.
Gallant asks himself simple but profound questions when creating new characters (such as "what do they want most in the world?" or "what would they never, ever do?") to create strong, compelling cores for roleplaying.
Whenever Goofus creates a character, the question he always asks himself is "But could this character be even more obnoxious?"
Gallant always gives his characters names that match the theme of the campaign that they're in.
Goofus is currently playing his thirteenth iteration of Buck Futter, Esq.
Gallant likes to world build the modern setting of his superhero games, showing the impact that super-science would have on the modern world.
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Goofus' superhero character's dialogue consists of him just repeating "Why so serious" and "Do you bleed" over and over again regardless of context.
Gallant works with his group to figure out a compromise when someone's character would be rendered nigh-unplayable by errata.
Goofus preemptively burns his players' character sheets whenever he hears about a new errata document coming on, since there's no time like the present!
Gallant likes to take old RPG stereotypes and tweak them as an inspiration when he designs a character.
Goofus tried playing a unusual and possibly uneffective build just so he could see if he was good enough at roleplaying it. Despite the fact that he's tried to do so 15 times before and was kicked out of 3 different campaigns when he did so.
Gallant's Vigilante is indeed based on a comic book character, but Gallant provides a twist that gives the Vigilante a uniqueness all his own.
Goofus just wants to play a cleric of whichever goddess he thinks is the hottest.
When the GM's home is being fumigated, Gallant goes out of his way to reserve a room at a library or university student center so the game can continue in comfort.
Owning a HAZMAT suit is a prerequisite for playing in one of Goofus's campaigns. Even when his home isn't being fumigated. (It happens more often than you'd think!)
Before running a campaign with horror themes in it, Gallant makes sure to ask all his players if there are certain subjects that are off-limits for them.
Goofus keeps a running scorecard of the number of players he's sent screaming, with bonus points if they end needing to seek professional help, due to his incorporation of horror in every campaign, especially the more child-friendly ones. (The authorities are still trying to figure out how he turned Candyland into a Saw-inspired RPG with elements of Halloween and The Ring thrown in for "good" measure.)
Gallant recently participated in a charity event where he played RPGs for 24 hours straight. The money he helped raise went to a worthy and reputable charity that helps hospitalized children and their families.
Goofus recently participated in a charity event where he played RPGs for 24 hours straight. The money he helped raise went to his offshore bank account and into his "minis made entirely out of gold" collection.
Gallant only participates in PVP if the whole group has agreed that PCs fighting PCs is okay in this campaign.
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If the group has banned infighting, Goofus makes a point of robbing everyone in the party, and, if confronted, dares them to do something about it.
Gallant does not allow disagreements to escalate into yelling matches at games, and later takes problem players aside, where he murders them and disposes of their bodies in a nearby wetland.
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Goofus drops the bodies in a dumpster that is, unbeknownst to him, next to the police station.
Gallant doesn't respond the flame bait posts, no matter what. He has better things to do with his life.
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Goofus gets so caught up in online trolling he argues with his own posts from a week ago.
When Gallant runs a game he keeps regular backups of everyone's sheets in case a sheet gets damaged or lost.
The players in Goofus's campaign always bring multiple copies of their character sheets as Goofus always grabs their sheets as he heads for the bathroom.
As a Christmas gift, Gallant had a custom set of dice made for each of his players.
As a Christmas gift (for himself), Goofus had a custom set of dice made out of each of his player's bones.
Gallant knows better than to discuss alignment on Internet forums.
Goofus invented the Internet to start alignment flame wars.
Gallant uses the Force to stop soda from spilling onto the precious character sheets.
Goofus uses Force Lightning on the player who critted his Gary Stu BBEG for massive damage.
Gallant has extra dice for players who forgot theirs.
Goofus has extra dice to force down the throats of players who forgot theirs
Gallant 3d prints dice for his players birthdays.
Goodus 2D prints dice for his player's birthdays.
Gallant always negotiates in good faith.