"That guy" tabletop stories

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Long and short of it. Have you guys ever had any that guys in your table top groups. I have been lucky and never had a awful group, at worst only mediocre.

But I am wonder if you guys have anything? Who knows maybe this may lead into a potential cow table thread or somethin.
 
If you mean annoying players, then yes I've had my fair deal but nothing lolcowish.
Just guys who play a violent character ruining the story or the ocassional dude who is too overpowered
 
We had a guy who literally burst into tears and threw a bag-throwing tantrum after we (in-character) berated his character for fucking us all over for the umpteenth time. He later started DMing and the only fun was seeing how many rules he'd forget to bother to check
 
I'm sure this is common, but that one dude who is clearly letting it be an outlet for his fetish.
My brother has someone in his D&D group who plays a "kitsune" every available opportunity, like doesn't matter how much it fits the setting or if it's even an option, it's going to be some variation of magical fox.
I can't be the only one who instantly thought the guy is playing as his fursona.
 
There's two kinds of powergamers: the kind you can quietly manipulate into accidentally joining in and enjoying the story, and the kind that never had an inkling of an interest in that in the first place. It's fine if they have a good sense of humor, but they never do. Unfortunately they also make for a piss-poor storytime and I don't seem to run into legitimate speds, so I've got no funny stories to share.

I'm sure this is common, but that one dude who is clearly letting it be an outlet for his fetish.
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The game we played when we ran in to this guy was Exalted. (and I regret it) Now it's been about 15 years so my memories is fuzzy.

We had a guy that had made a "family" of characters. Most of them female, and one ultra violent guy. He made all of the characters related to each other in some way, they're sisters, or the reincarnation of someones parent (you could have a reincarnation background for you character, it could be used to boost die roles). Every character had some sort of background that sounded like it came out of a bad anime. One girl was orphaned, had a "special" tattoo on her back, was a run away slave, and raped (this one was his favorite). A lot of them had weeaboo names pulled from a Japanese English dictionary.

So, why did we let this guy play with us? He was a room mate, and we wanted to keep the peace. This was also his first time playing a table top. You know how some gaming books have a warning about how if you have trouble telling the difference between make believe and reality you shouldn't play this kind of game. That was for this guy. He wanted to game every day, he put his characters in the Sims and made them kiss, he would throw a fit if a roll went wrong, he wanted to do sex scenes in detail, and was always disappointed when it didn't happen.

His one male character was in the game a Lunar, that means they have a spirit animal that they can turn in to. His was a T rex. He wanted a harem of bitches so he could make mutant T Rex babies. That was his only goal for the character.

His shining star big tittied anime girl was a Solar. In short she was blessed by the god Sun and could get a gold aura like DBZ. He would not shut up about her big boobs. He would play her as sweet and innocent one day, and have her use a magic crown to have a village mine all it's magic gold for her the next. This character fell in love with a storyteller character that was powerful. He had his character break in to this guys mansion, strip in front of him, and say, "I love you and want you, but you must know I'm not a virgin. *Blush*"

He was upset that sex didn't happen and ran away. Not his character, he ran away. And then he called us about 2 weeks later saying that he was losing sleep over this game relationship, worried that it wouldn't work out. He wanted to game with us again. He said we needed it, because in his words "You miss the DRAMA." We just started to ignore him after that. Last I heard he was hiding from the cops because he missed a meeting with his patrol officer. He also hinted that he thought he was a dragon, and all his characters lived in his head. This was back in 03 or 04 I can't remember.
 
I'm sure this is common, but that one dude who is clearly letting it be an outlet for his fetish.
My brother has someone in his D&D group who plays a "kitsune" every available opportunity, like doesn't matter how much it fits the setting or if it's even an option, it's going to be some variation of magical fox.
I can't be the only one who instantly thought the guy is playing as his fursona.
This is why as a DM I always used to limit it to races in the PHB unless the group had a majority vote agreeing on it. I ran a pretty serious high fantasy campaign, I did NOT want someone mucking the tone up. And then Dragonborn got put into 4e's PHB and I got really fucking scared. But nothing came of it, the group liked the tone of the campaign and were respectful of maintaining it. Which...is a rare and wondrous thing.
 
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I'm sure this is common, but that one dude who is clearly letting it be an outlet for his fetish.
My brother has someone in his D&D group who plays a "kitsune" every available opportunity, like doesn't matter how much it fits the setting or if it's even an option, it's going to be some variation of magical fox.
I can't be the only one who instantly thought the guy is playing as his fursona.


I can relate. A guy in my game makes all his characters an outlet for his scalie fetish and has a bad case of protagonist syndrome.
 
I was playing fallout PnP with some dudes and there was a somehow a quest involving someone's old woman/young boy anime fetish (IDK what it's called, shota?). Thankfully my character stopped the "act" because I didn't want a degeneracy in my nuclear hell scape.
 
"That guy" for me was my cousin. During our D&D campaigns, she tried to fuck with our (everyone in the group) characters and when her character faced retaliation, she got triggered and kept attacking because she thought that it was cute to do so. It lead to quicker character deaths and campaigns either narrowly finished, or not finished at all.
 
used to run the club at our school but it was mainly just my close friends and I and only one occasional weirdo, well we were all making characters for someones game and going around telling backstories in like 10th grade, we thought it was funny how all of our characters were edgy and were orphans
 
Had a player steal a magic ring from another player then threw a fit and nearly quit the game accusing everyone of meta gaming when he openly wore and used the stolen ring in front of the player he stole it from and the group called him out on it. He then held a grudge (IRL) against the player who's ring he stole and got called out about. Later he DMed a game and tried to force a premade character onto the ring player that was hilariously weak (11 was his highest stat and its dnd 5e) and with a personality of both stupid and gay. That player no longer games with us
 
The first tabletop campaign I ever ran was D&D 3rd Ed, set in the Forgotten Realms. I had a 'That Guy' as one of my players. At one point during the campaign, his tiefling thief (who constantly ran away and sold out the rest of the party whenever combat happened and hoarded/hid treasure from the other characters) finally got his comeuppance and That Guy had to make a new character. He sprung his new concept on me at the beginning of the next game: a half red dragon, half troll. No, he wasn't joking, he was dead serious.

I didn't even let him get so far as telling me what class he wanted to play; I immediately said no to the fucked up hybrid. Setting aside the blatant powergaming involved, the ECL of such a character would be completely out of whack with the rest of the party. This grown ass man promptly threw a shouting, foot-stomping tantrum because I was being "completely unreasonable" and "wouldn't hear him out" about his awesome munchkin concept. Said tantrum lasted over an hour. Eventually the people who lived at the house we were gaming at told him to shut the hell up or leave. He then spent the entire rest of the game sulking in silence and glaring daggers at me because I told him he'd have to come up with a reasonable character before he could play.
 
I volunteer at a local library and run a D&D game for teenagers there. Most of them are good kids, if a lil touched with the tism, and we've had some good times. The problem is when I let them DM. Every time, they either blatantly fudge rolls to screw the other players or immobilize everyone else so their DMPC can save the day or try to insert their favorite obscure anime/video game to the detriment of the other players. So I've decided just to DM from now on because if I have to hear one more time about how powerful and how much Jim's DMPC looks like Ichigo from Bleach or whatever, I'm going to bust a tit.
 
I’ll just repost this here from the general thread, as it’s a spectacular That Guy story.
So for you guys wondering what @Rumpled Foreskin and @Dunsparce are talking about, we had a new player in our Wednesday games. He was a table top buddy of one of our regulars, since the pair of them had another game that went bust. Our DM said it was okay, since he has a policy that the more, the better. Little did we know that this new guy was an embarrassment who managed to in the first hour of the session get under most of our skins.

He showed up and immediately spent his goodwill by doing this awkward and cringey Gollum impersonation and kept it up for minutes on end the first time he showed up. He also never bothered to find a good place for his pet quail for sessions, so he'd fairly regularly have his bird scream into the microphone without giving a single fuck. His character sheet and design were also something that clawed its way out of a shonen manga in a medieval setting; he tried to claim it was a Victorian setting appropriate one, but it is the anti-steampunk so no. I'm pretty sure you can fucking tell what his character was in my art given this simple description.

He also was cripplingly lazy and cheaty with his character sheet. He never could be assed to make his character sheet for himself; he demanded his former DM and our DM to make his sheets for him. His sheet he used was a three way process between himself, the DM of his old Victorian game, and our good player restatting it for the setting. It was supposed to just be a quick temporary one, but he never bothered to make a sheet of his own, which makes me think he did that on purpose due to loving his character he mad. He managed to weasel in things like being an inch shorter than 8 ft so he could still be a Medium sized character but still use large weapons until our DM said no. He also took feats without their prerequisites and told no one. Best example was when he took cleave without Power Attack, since he wanted to be a living Cuisinart I think.

In game he played like shit too. In the two sessions we had with him he managed to do nothing but be useless. In the first session, he decided to use his weapon on a monster that was known to have a metal eating ability (not a Rust Monster, a Black Pudding). He fucked himself out of his main weapon, but then cheerily said he had another one... without it being on his sheet. DM gave him it since otherwise he'd be reduced to throwing javelins. He then got a pity weapon that he abused by sniffing it like a dog.

In his second and last session, he got destroyed by our Half-orc Barbarian, who crushed him with his bare fucking hands after crit failing a grapple check. He got destroyed because he tried to prevent him from carving a name onto this big fucking boar (a section boss) we just fought for no logical reason. Better yet, he did this after being told by the DM on three separate occasions that it was an awful idea; he even rolled max on a WIS check that told him not to mess with the Half-Orc. So he ignored the DM even as he said "are you sure?" multiple times, the tell that what you are about to do is going to be fatal. Our barb then proceeded to paint his guts into a sun on the ground and did a Viking ritual with his organs, which for the character counted as a labor to cure his madness.

Also fun fact: he did nothing but look at trees and smelled flowers before getting attacked by said boar. Hell, he agro'd it too by just traipsing along like a dipshit. That he dodged every hit was the only awesome thing he ever fucking did.

Another fun fact, we just erased his character from existence when he came back as a skeleton along with another character that didn't match the party. Our cleric just erased him with turn undead, one of our casters burned the clothes and I kicked his ashes away. We now have another cursed item, the Cursed Mask of the Weeb.
 
I dodged a That guy. I was working a board game cafe so I put some fliers about trying to get a game of something up during some of my time at that pub. This guy expressed interest and had some other friends who were interested. It was going to be Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd ED because they wanted to do something Fantasy and I just don't do DnD/PF.

So we met to make our characters, him, his friend and his girlfriend and his roonmate (Why is it always roommates?)

Now he wasn't just a little on the spectrum. He was more than likely actually retarded. The first thing he told me was "I always wanted to make my own Dungeons and Dragons. But I never played Dungeons and Dragons." and I just stared and said "O...Ok?"

Now I'm paraphrasing here because he was a french unilingual. I live around Ottawa, most people around here speak both English and French. With some English people not bothering to learn French, and the really really stupid French people not learning English. You literally need to have a fucking learning disability to not speak a little English around here. The guy didn't even know the word "Strength" This is something any young fan of RPGs will learn while their age is still in the single digit!! This was a grown ass man who can't even learn basic RPG terms!

And this is Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Third Edition. Everything is in English. The PCs use a deck of ability cards, which again, all very dense English. Getting this fucking retard to play this game would have been a complete nightmare.

The other guy was saying how Skyrim is his favourite games, but all he does is literally get EVERYTHING. Just fill up his inventory with anything he can take. Andthen just dump it all in his house in game. Like literally fucking The Hoarder Scroll's.

My boss was waiting the tables that day (It was a small start up, so the owner would be part of the staff) and like when he served the guy some soup he was asking for crackers and was saying "I'm the kind of guy that likes to put crackers in his soup." as if that was a very interesting fact about him. And you could see my boss' expression glaze over when he said that. It was embarrassing to be at the same table as that guy.

The other PCs made their characters without much of my assistance and I had to hand hold this guy the whole way. I was pretty much making the character for him. In the end, I decided to make up excuses about stuff when they asked about the game and was secretly hoping for them to forget about it. I hear they eventually started playing on their own, so good for them and good for me, I dodged a bullet.
 
I have stories about our first time playing D&D, if that counts, because we were all that guy.

So my irl friends and I (3 players, 1 DM) were playing through the starter set adventure, Lost Mine of Phandelver. I made a white dragonborn sorcerer (Jack von Altrad, named for his mediocre stats), one friend (we’ll call him Knuck, after the shitty miis we made of each other) made an elven ranger (Halt- yes, that was his name), and one (we’ll call him Krank) made a skeleton bard (Gordon).

The very first thing the DM (we’ll call him Leeyumyum) had us do was ask us how we knew our dwarven questgiver, who hired us to escort some supplies to a city. Krank said, in his admittedly good Skeletor voice, that Gordon went on plenty of adventures with him and even saved each other’s lives on occasion. Knuck said that Halt doesn’t reveal his secrets. He later revealed that he hadn’t thought of anything. Jack, on the other hand, was a painter famous for his beautiful portraits of people on the toilet. When he tried to paint a picture of the dwarf, he had finished his business before Jack could finish his, and he overpowered him. The dwarf gave him an ultimatum- either go on this quest or I turn you in. This would set the stage for how our short-lived campaign would go- one decent roleplayer/memelord, one edgelord, one jackass, and one DM who didn’t know how to read the adventure before running it.

Then came the first fight against four goblins. Despite the fact that we won, it was still a failure because two of us were close to death and one of us (me, of course) fucking died. We retconned it next session and we trounced the goblins with ease, and even captured one of them. To interrogate it to find out where our questgiver went (we found dead horses and looted carriages on the side of the road), Gordon threatened to “bone” the goblin, Jack outright threatened to rape him, and Halt promised that this would all be over once he told them what happened. The goblin told everyone that they had kidnapped the dwarf and took the supplies for themselves before asking if this was all over. Halt said yes, and it was all over for the goblin.

After scolding Knuck for beheading the goblin with crucial information, the party went into their goal- the town of Phandelver. There, they went into a tavern to ask for directions to the store where they’re supposed to get paid. While they were there, Jack drank two gallons of ale and got drunk off his ass. So while Gordon and Halt got the money, Jack tried to find them and ended up wandering into town hall, harassing the mayor’s secretary before being kicked out, wandering into a church where the priest preached the dangers of homosexuality, stealthily stole 13 copper from the donation basket on his way out, tripped in a puddle and almost drowned, angrily tried to freeze the puddle only to accidentally freeze a little boy’s dog, wandered back into the bar, and blacked out. Needless to say, Jack didn’t get any money from the party, who passed by the frozen dog, and had to sleep in the stables, paid for out of his own pocket while he was unconcious.

The next session, after whatever that was, Jack woke up hungover and not remembering anything. So he caught up to the party to ask for his payment (already split two ways), only for them to be accosted by the brigands that run the town. Naturally, Jack does the smart thing a good few turns into the fight and tries to cast burning hands at the brigands. While the party was standing in range. Needless to say, the elf got burned, and attacked Jack for being, well, a Jackass. Gordon points out to the confused bandits that this is the guy that froze that dog. Angrily, they all teamed up to murder Jack before resuming the fight. Needless to say, my character died for real this time.

We ended up not continuing that campaign, and we only really started D&D again after we got two other players.
If there was a lesson to be learned here, it’s that if someone’s That Guy, there’s a decent chance that they’re young (this was sophomore year of high school) or inexperienced (again, this was our first time.
 
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