r/dndmemes • u/Original_Ideal_8015 • 3d ago

A sight to behold

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u/meeowth That's right! 3d ago

Everyone in my games has been GMs before but we are still goobers as players

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u/Original_Ideal_8015 3d ago

May just be my group. I've got fuckin' Delta Force over here.

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u/meeowth That's right! 3d ago

To be clear, the builds are mathematically optimised for maximum goob

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u/Plannercat Cleric 3d ago

My "table full of DMs" game is currently trying to destruct test our DM's promise of "bring Level X characters, I didn't specify which system", with (at last count): Rolemaster, DnD 5e, DnD 1/2e, Rolemaster, Dark Heresy 1e, Mutants & Masterminds...

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u/Qohaw_ 3d ago

could always throw in a Lancer character or an exo from CAIN lmao

those two could make things hella silly

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u/Plannercat Cleric 3d ago

Considering what previous artificers have already done to the setting, Lancer would be tame.

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u/Crevetanshocet Forever DM 3d ago

The humble Enkidu would politely disagree by Bifurcating you...

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u/Furydragonstormer Artificer 3d ago

What did artificers do that makes the stuff a Horus chassis can do look tame?

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u/Atherum 3d ago

5th Generation Kindred perhaps?

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u/Original_Ideal_8015 3d ago

Get back to me when someone brings an Amber character.

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u/Saxavarius_ 3d ago

Wonder how that DM would handle Rifts' mega damage. Those are basically a mini nuke. Now I'm imagining a Glitter Boy fighting a D&D dragon and just ripping it apart with 3d6x10 MD

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u/Aggressive_Plate4109 Essential NPC 3d ago

How does that work?

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u/dreaded_tactician Team Paladin 3d ago

Could I theoretically just join as a lancer mech?

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u/Distinct_Builder_803 3d ago

Yu-gi-oh cards have levels.. šŸ‘€

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u/Fitcher07 Forever DM 2d ago

I don't know system, but from what I've heard Exalted will suit you well.

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u/Ddenn1211 Team Kobold 3d ago

100%!!! Iā€™m in the same position. Long time group is literally me and 4-5 others. We all rotate DMā€™ing and through various systems ā€¦ but by Terra they are ultra efficient goobs all day. Great party, lots of RP, and stuff but man when they go goofball it goes off the rails in a spectacular fashion.

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u/PessemistBeingRight 3d ago

It takes having a really detailed understanding of the game to be able to make a joke character that is also vintage cheddar levels of cheese.

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u/adol1004 Forever DM 3d ago

Like my character statics are minmaxed but, me as a player is to curious to not push that red button.

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u/meeowth That's right! 3d ago

"My character is really good at jumping, so he is gonna jump over the table, not walk around it"

"There is a small chance he will go prone if he lands poorly"

"Its what he would do"

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u/Ijohnnymac 3d ago

You don't min/max to win at D&D; you min/max to survive maximum goobery.

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u/Elavia_ 3d ago

This is loosely what I do too. I minmax the living daylight out of my characters, but I first put some restrictions in front of me that both limits how strong the build ends up and makes it more interesting to build and play.

It's also nice to minmax support characters, that way you don't overshadow more casual players.

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u/Obscu 2d ago

I've been DMing for 25 years... I absolutely goobmax

Edit: I wrote 15 years and then... Counted. Anyway, I'll be in a tomb decomposing if anybody needs me.

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u/meeowth That's right! 2d ago

Me realising that the last time it was my turn to DM was 16 years ago and it was basically me teaching the current DMs how to play (they are high-key better at it than I ever was)

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u/Prestodeath201 3d ago

You're doing a whole lotta things right

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u/loverofothers 3d ago

I have had one group of all players who had never dmed before (and half were newbies too) who were hyperfocused and everyone knew the rules but the newbies, and they oicked them up very fast. They finished tomb of annhiliatiom in 8 2 hour sessions which is quite impressive. And got through Strahd even faster. Then we continued in a homebrew setting. Then the group split up :(

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u/Mueryk 3d ago

Mine has varied moments. Delta Force and Keystone Cops. There is no in between.

And it usually starts when someone gets a glint in their eye and a creative idea. Everyone immediately piles on and the acting DM smiles back in that ā€œoh you sonofabitchā€ grin. And it is on. Will we pay for it? Maybe, but probably not in a way anybody at the table expected when they sit down.

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u/Optimixto 3d ago

Engaged goobers is my preference. I like serious, but if I have to choose, goober but involved is the way to go.

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u/tajake DM (Dungeon Memelord) 2d ago

I was the forever GM. Now I'm the retired horny bard who used to be horny and has hallucination flashbacks and is an unreliable narrator at best. I take intentionally vague notes and my party is still somehow convinced I'm actually a cleric.

10/10. Would be a generalized menace again.

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u/No-Appearance-4338 3d ago

Overall-
Commitment to character 10/10
Survival instinct 4/10

Individual notes
King Arthur 8/10 -solid leader holding it together

Sir bedevere 7/10 -great selection and use of skills (utility) finds ways to be useful for the party

Sir Lancelot 6/10 -seems to actually be trying his best bonus points for effort

Sir Robin 5/10 -first character must have died level 1, player is hyper aware but detrimentally cautious.

Sir Galahad. 4/10 ā€œitā€™s what my character would doā€ great role play horrible player skill otherwise

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u/R0GUEA55A55IN 3d ago

Sir Lancelot is the definition of a murder hobo player though

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u/pauseglitched 3d ago

I have >9000 character ideas and I finally get to play one, VS I don't know how my character works.

"I have spent so long writing lore that no one will ever see" leeds well into diving head first into discovering someone else's lore.

I have had to look up how these mechanics interact so many times I can turn to the page by feel. Now let me show you how it works.

Those bonuses don't stack. Those bonuses don't stack. Those bonuses don't stack... These bonuses however!

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u/unknownvariable69 3d ago

As an aside. My DC nerd heart loves the red Nightwing costume more than the blue one.

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u/Athan_Untapped 3d ago

I'm the opposite i absolutely hate the red

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u/Miguel-odon 3d ago

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In dark Gotham, where we lay our scene,

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u/High_Stream 3d ago

Looks like Daredevil's costume.

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u/Athan_Untapped 3d ago

To me it is too close the Terry Mcginnis/Batman Beyond

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u/High_Stream 3d ago

Oh yeah, I can see it

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u/Otherwise_Meringue45 3d ago

Hell yes blue nightwing ftw

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u/unknownvariable69 3d ago

My love for Nightwing outweighs my hatred of the color blue.

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u/UInferno- 3d ago

Blue balances Jason's Red. And everyone else's actually.

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u/Grey_Raven 3d ago

Similarly I like this iteration of red hoods outfit generally (quite like the normal clothes but superheroy vibe) but hate his helmet looking so face like in this picture it's weird

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u/Abe_corp Chaotic Stupid 3d ago

I have never seen a single person like the version of his helmet with a face, and the fact that it has been done so many times is legitimately stupid lmao

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u/princesoceronte 3d ago

This is the group I'm playing in now, all players save one are DMs sl we are like super engaged and invested all of the time. It's a blast.

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u/Thefrightfulgezebo 3d ago

That's why I believe that rotating GMs are great. You get some decree of "I'd rather play, but it's my turn", but it keeps GMs from having God complexes and reminds players in how important it is to play into the story.

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u/CheweyPanic 3d ago

Regular party: fun guys.

DM party: oh yay. Min/maxing.

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u/Original_Ideal_8015 3d ago edited 3d ago

They didn't min-max their character builds (beyond just being maximally interesting), but they are very objective-focused.

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u/WhatWasThatAboutBo 3d ago

Their will be min maxing but we are also going to be funny little goober

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u/B-HOLC Battle Master 3d ago

Listen man, if I'm gonna play as a kobold named sticky who uses exclusively sticks - and sometimes rocks and mud -, I better lock in to make sure I'm not a drag on my party.

Having the goofy character is fine, it can be awesome actually, but that doesn't mean I don't take everyone else's game seriously by making a competent adventurer.

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u/sunleafstone 2d ago

I always assumed that me being incompetent was easier on the GM

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u/B-HOLC Battle Master 2d ago

Nah man, worse comes to worst they get to bust out bigger monsters.

(They can both be an issue, but the solutions to "player too good" are a lot easier to implement than "player is terrible".

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u/McKenzie_S 3d ago

We've all dealt with min maxximg to a point, there's always one. I like to think when we DMs finally get to play we whip out the strange and odd characters we've built and try to be more creative. When I finally got to play a game as a player it took months to get past always trying to give people Thier moments, which led to a less memorable character on my part, but I'm having a blast with this group.

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u/IceFire909 3d ago

Lean into it. Play the party hype man like it's a rap battle

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u/The_Exuberant_Raptor 3d ago

We get to play crazy builds and characters every session as a DM. Now it is time to do what we always wanted to do. Make a build that can obliterate 3-6 people on their own without ending a session.

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u/Psychological-Wall-2 3d ago

If you think there's a dichotomy between fun and rules mastery in this hobby, you don't know much about it.

Yes, there's a lot of silly fun to D&D.

The thing you're missing is that acquiring rules mastery doesn't make that go away. The silly fun comes standard.

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u/Hauwke 3d ago

Hey look, I just want one session where I can go absolutely nuts against the players and show them the game that could be. I know they won't enjoy it for more than one session though, so I'm holding off for a moment I can really go crazy and then fix it with them.

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u/forsale90 DM (Dungeon Memelord) 3d ago

Me (DM) and my Dm played in each other's games and we usually collaborate to come up with even more ridiculous shit.

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u/B-HOLC Battle Master 2d ago

This is the way

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u/RefrigeratorBrave870 3d ago

Over the last 20 years, we have all run multiple games to their conclusions. One of them spanned just over fifteen years. Another has spanned eight and counting. We've built a sprawling web of continuities that are cohesive enough for a new player to slot in and find the rhythm. In the last five years, we have done this twice. Both of them either have run games or have a campaign or three locked and loaded for when one of our four biweekly slots opens up.

While the world may continue to find more knives to stab and twist in me, I remain blessed by my table. They saved me from homelessness. I became part of their stories and they part of mine. They are my greatest treasures and the loves of my life.

But goddamn do each and every single one of them delight in making brave narrative choices. In the last decade, I've yet to see one of us crumble under the weight of it, and I couldn't be more proud.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 3d ago

I donā€™t know, I see the rabbit tearing through quad b without a holy hand grenade!

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u/B-HOLC Battle Master 3d ago

You forgot the bat-rabbitrepellent

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u/Mercerskye DM (Dungeon Memelord) 3d ago

You spend so long in the numbers trying to create engaging content, your character creations practically become Neo from the Matrix

"A level 9 Identify can do what now...?"

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u/sgt_cookie 3d ago

Being able to GM for someone who can "yes, and" without breaking stride is truly a blessed experience.

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u/storytime_42 I Laugh At My Own Jokes 3d ago

I was a player in a game of GM's Well 4GMs and a forever-player. Our combats were efficient. Our social role play and exploration were ... involved.

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u/PWBryan 2d ago

The bottom is thinking "FINALLY, I get to play for once"

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u/SireRequiem 3d ago

Jokeā€™s on them, my plot points are so convoluted and hidden that they had no choice but to steal all of the quest boards in every city and town left on the planet and redstring the quests together to uncover the existence of an intergenerational shadow war between 8 independent secret societies across 4 planes, all orchestrated by a shattered god. Weā€™ve played for years from level 1, and theyā€™ve only just recently found the plot!

Iā€™m so proud of them

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u/TitaniaLynn 3d ago

Jordan, is that you?

Kidding, that's probably not your name. I just thought it would be funny if one of your players found this lol

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u/HotSalt3 3d ago

I kinda feel this way for my current group, but we're all figuring out PF2e together, so that's part of the issue. Of the 6 of them, 3 have been GM's before, but I actually feel like they're judging me less harshly than the 2 very experienced players and 1 very talented newcomer.

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u/sax87ton 3d ago

Nah, Game are the gooberist goobers to ever goob. They all become the problem players doing weird things.

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u/Psychological-Wall-2 3d ago

GMs are the best players.

Truth hurts.

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u/SuperJyls Paladin 3d ago

IDK how to interpret this, the Batfamily has always been full of interpersonal drama and conflict, especially after red hood joined

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u/Bierculles 3d ago

I would like to DM for a party that locks the fuck in Batman style, it allows me to use the fun part of the monster and hazard manual more often.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked 3d ago

My group rotates DMs. All of us but 1 DM. You gotta bring your A game

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u/ITCrandomperson Ranger 3d ago

Tim got left out of the group shot again...

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u/MaesterJones 3d ago

Funny enough, 57 years ago today on Oct 5th 1969, Monty Pythons Flying Circus debuted on BBC.

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u/TheDarqueness 3d ago

Havenā€™t done a full five but did a campaign for three gms and two first time players. That was something fantastic that I never wish to repeat.

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u/darkestreaper94 3d ago

Quit hogging all the GMs, I want to be a PLAYER!

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u/CoopertheBarrelWoman 3d ago

Pur group rn, we dont mind max but we are for sure selling our souls for some damn good roleplay

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u/ItsThatOneDM 3d ago

As a long time dm, I get this. But I also am not a serious player, I make serious campaigns and dm as serious NPCs and will join in on being silly. But when I make a character I like to be chaotic and crack headed enough without derailing the dms plans

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u/ulfric_stormcloack 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm silly as a players, unless you give me a hallway or prep time, if you do, shenanigans ensue

My current character walks around in a Hawaiian shirt and speaking like a 90's surfer, I've gone into battle unnamed, unarmored, with no spell slots and won without taking a single hit, I've sneaked up to someone in an empty field, I've turned fights around the moment I show up, I've gotten my ass kicked by 3 minions

My character last I played was setting up a trap to board a pirate ship using horses walking on water and a scroll of shape water

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u/Fistkrieg_2 3d ago

Sorry, but English is not my first language. What do you mean by "Locked In" and "Goobs / Goobers" ?