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Goofus plays Duke Nukem. Not an expy, just straight-up Duke Nukem. With all his weapons. In Golarion.
Gallant maintains friendships after the game, inviting players to parties, carpooling to the theater, and setting up board game nights on other free evenings.
Goofus breaks into his local game shop, steals what he wants, and burns it down to hide the evidence.
When playing a Brawler, Gallant always keeps a few notecards with his favorite combat feat combinations nearby so that he doesn't slow down play by searching through his books in the middle of combat.
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Goofus takes so long to decide on his action when it's his turn, the rest of the group have started running a second game during that time. They've completed two Adventure Paths so far doing this.
Gallant puts his skills of optimization to use helping the other players achieve their quirky character concepts while still maintaining combat effectiveness.
Goofus made a set of condition cards which make it appear that effects like "stunned" and "nauseous" are actually beneficial to his character.
"My character is on the verge of vomiting. That's a +4 morale bonus to attack, you know!"
Even though he could, Gallant's wizard never summons fiends. He knows what kind of horrors allowing those outsiders could wreak if their influence on the mortal plane grows.
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Goofs summons fiends and celestials to fight each other and collects bets on the outcome.
Gallant practices with the pan pipes so he can role play his bard playing a small ditty in the tavern.
Goofus goes the extra mile to become a vampire in his plot to become the most powerful being alive.
When Gallant's necromancer summons undead, he always respectfully has them return to their graves after the battle is done.
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Goofus tries to make a little money on the side by choreographing a little dance routine for his zombies to perform whenever they come through town.
Gallant plays an elf who starts out arrogant and a little bigoted, but has him soften as the campaign progresses, eventually becoming a loyal friend and faithful companion to the non-elven party.
Goofus plays an elf who starts out arrogant and a little bigoted, and ends the campaign with a God complex and a plan to eradicate every non-elf in the multiverse.
Gallant's chaotic neutral barbarian never acts erratically because "chaotic people are lol-randum you guuuuyysss."
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Goofus gives every encounter the Gigantean template
Gallant occasionally adds extra encounters related to a character's backstory to the game
Every encounter in Goofus's campaign is related to the backstory of his uber-powered super-boring GMPCs.
After the party has won the day, Gallant has the King of land throw a lavish festival in their honor.
After the party has fought hard and taxed themselves to the limit, losing good friends along the way, in order to stop the Big Bad from destroying existence, Goofus has the king arrest and execute the players for killing an upstanding member of the court. Because happy endings are boring, so it's good to mix things up, right guys? Guys?
Gallant greets the new player, letting him know of the various house rules and social norms the table follows.
Goofus plays nothing but Master Summoners and Exploiter Wizards, even in low-magic campaigns. ESPECIALLY in low-magic campaigns.
Whenever he plays a cleric, Gallant adds little sayings and prayers to his deity to add to his roleplaying.
I'm going to answer the last two, and you can't stop me! Bhwa-ha-ha!
Whenever he plays a cleric, Gallant adds little sayings and prayers to his deity to add to his roleplaying.
Goofus has somehow managed to fit in long, lurid descriptions of the ritual orgies his church runs with every god he worships. Including the goddess of chastity.
Gallant creates special one-off campaigns for every player and runs those campaigns for them on their birthdays.
Goofus' idea of a birthday surprise is to run one of his special 'drunk' games. Considering Goofus is a renowned lightweight, this has invariably resulted in character sheets and miniatures ruined by puke, and passing out in the middle of combat. (And once, in the middle of rolling.)
Gallant enjoys trying out different combinations of races, classes, backgrounds, and alingments with every new character, rarely playing the same thing twice.
Goofus uses only Go stones as miniatures for his monsters. Don't you dare say that the red dragon was suddenly switched with that horde of goblins.
Gallant offers to run an extra table when he sees that both planned tables are full and a newcomer walks into the shop, even though he was scheduled to play the last part of a series of scenario's.
You can borrow Goofus's books when you pry them from his COLD DEAD HANDS.
Gallant is willing to suspend his disbelief for elements in the game that, while they may not make much sense, exist to make the game more fun.
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Goofus insists on realism to such extend that he took the party on a field trip to show that overland movement while carrying heavy encumbrance is not captured correctly in the rules.
Gallant offers to reroll that natural 20 that landed on the floor
All of Goofus's dice roll off the side of the table and they're all "conveniently" natural 20s. No take-backsies.
When the party is confronted by a corrupt noble, Gallant advises the others that they should gather evidence of said noble's wrongdoing and present it to the royal court.
Goofus crits with his large-sized bastard sword on the noble. With max damage. While raging. In broad daylight. In front of the badass mayor and town guard.
Gallant prepares a eulogy for a characters funeral if somebody dies and they don't have the resources to resurrect them.
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Goofus prepares cheese effigies of other players' characters and eats them when they die, making monster noises as he does so.
Gallant prepares high-end fantasy-themed snacks for the game, with names like "devil's food brownies," "catoble-pies," "lich-y fruits," and "protean shakes."
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Goofus rips off every single NPC in the campaign from Neverwinter Nights.
Gallant gives his barbarian a personality other than
Nobody's quite sure where Goofus lives, as he never socializes with anyone outside of the game. Two years later, they learn he actually sleeps under the game table and goes foraging at night. The guy whose house they game at is the most surprised of all.
Gallant will discuss his hobby with people who aren't familiar with tabletop RPGs, but he keeps himself in check and doesn't go on for too long or gush too obsessively about it.
At the beginning of his campaign, Goofus has all of his players roll on the percentage dice. Anyone who doesn't roll a 100 is killed by a random meteor strike.
Gallant makes sure that his animal companion is fed and brushed every day.
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Goofus looks at the list of equipment he keeps in his portable hole, and remembers where he last put his animal companion. Three weeks ago.
Gallant likes to go on vacations to national parks, so he can use the beauty and grandeur of nature to inspire his overland descriptions.
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Goofus's dice have sensors built into them that cause them to explode if anyone but Goofus touches them.
When Gallant makes a dwarven character, he gives that character more personality traits than just "loves beards and loves beer."
The fact that Goofus's first instinct was to moon the alien ambassadors led to the destruction of human civilization as we know it.
When his GM says that she has to take a break from GMing because she's burned out, Gallant offers to run a campaign for the group in her stead.
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When Gm takes a break, goofus runs a game where everyone is forced to play characters with up to 5 levels in NPC classes only. He then forces the NPC classed party against a tarrasque with 18 templates
Gallant has found a way to run a game that uses mass combat rules without things getting repetitive
Goofus now refers to his drinking problem as "Roleplay research".
Gallant refers to the internet for build advice, but doesn't use builds that don't match his game thematically.
Goofus is confused why no GM has ever allowed him to play Pun-Pun. It's totally in the rules, you guys!
When forced to fight one of his allies who has been dominated, Gallant uses nonlethal damage to avoid killing them.
Goofus always uses lethal damage when playing as a lawful good monk, even when just backslapping the party wizard, cause FISTS OF FURY!
Gallant takes a poll of what his players want for their next campaign and works in everyone somehow, even when he has to alter his original plot ideas to do so, because fun comes first.