Hi consider this your blessing from a certified forever GM, to please make your TTRPG characters Mary Sues.
Listen if you spend enough time in the hobby you will inevitably get people turning up their nose, saying you need to make your PCs “realistic”. These people are wrong! Especially when it comes to DnD. There’s nothing wrong with tropes but after a while all the human fighters who used to be in the army, and elf wizard trying to live up their family legacy start to blur together.
The same cannot be said for the diamond-skinned demi-goddess cleric who started her prayers with “Hey mom, it’s me”; the self-described “slutty pyromaniac” tiefling sorcerer; the ranger who wanted to domesticate an army of rats and declare herself “queen of the sewers”; or the slightly macabre mushroom druid who became a sheepgirl while trying to cast “trans your gender”.
There is literally only one hard-and-fast rule in D&D character creation, which is one of basic courtesy to the DM and others–you have to create a character who, for literally any reason at all, would join an adventuring party.
(Like I said, this is basic courtesy; nothing is worse than the player who, when the DM introduces a plot hook, responds with “but why would MY character care? why would I get involved in this monster attack? MY character would just let the town guard handle it!”
The answer to “but why would my character want to get involved?” is “Because you’re not the only player at the table, and you’re not the main character in a novel.” Pulling the session to a grinding halt around your character’s…lack of interest in the entire game….is rude and unfair. This is a team-based game, and an understood rule of conduct is that you are going to be playing a character who will–reluctantly perhaps, warily certainly, out of fear or self-interest by all means, but will nevertheless–join forces with the rest of the group and have some form of engagement with the plot)
And get this.
The vast majority of players snottily talking down to the actually interesting and engaging character concepts for not being “realistic” enough? They violate that one rule all the fucking time. A lone-wolf jaded rogue sitting by themself in the corner might be “realistic,” but if they keep no-selling plot hooks and refusing to engage with the plot because “it would be out of character”, then they’re not a good character for D&D and their players should have made a better one.
Literally the only law of character creation is to make a character who will in some way, shape, or form engage with the fucking story.
Make characters who are INTERESTING and ENGAGING and FUN TO PLAY and yes, don’t let assholes ruin your fun, but also: You are probably objectively better at this than they are and you deserve to keep that in mind.
NEVER take character criticism from people who only have one rule they’re expected to follow and still can’t figure it out.
in the campaign i run we got a lesbian pirate captain, a socially awkward bird who worships bird queen, a rat princess, a kobold rogue thats got the deduction skills of sherlock and a dwarven wizard alcoholic.
Mark Kelly and Kristen Sinema are both directly referenced by him. For fuck’s sake.
Blue dogs can go straight to hell
It is fucking nuts to me that Qanon idiots will spend all day blogging about secret illuminati groups using warlocks to control government meanwhile oil executives admit to rigging politics on TV while naming their corrupt toadies and nobody bats a fucking eye.
At this point in time, with rare exception, I’m pretty against content creators speaking about their projects. By that I mean, I hate creators revealing lore or explaining content after the fact or even AS something is coming out. It ends up weakening the actual narrative in canon, making it so it can’t stand on its own.
BUT I am 110% percent okay with Marvel creators speaking about their works and its BECAUSE it ALWAYS weakens the actual content and it’s always in the funniest way.
You think Steve’s ending was beautiful and lovingly crafted? The writers and directors can’t even agree where he went and what he did. No thought went into that. They spent WEEKS on promo tours indirectly arguing about what was more canon.
You think Loki was a great show and didn’t mind him dating himself? Well, AFTER the he kissed the only female version of himself, a composer came out and said she crafted all the music with the idea that Loki sees Sylvie like a mother in her mind. “He looks at her like he looks at her mother.”
And there’s shit like this all throughout the MCU production and promo. Actors arguing for ships that make zero sense at the expense of characterization. Completely insane takes on continuity from directors. And I love it… like… yes… expose your projects for the shallow frauds that they are. This isn’t even getting into shit like “just looking at production schedules demonstrates how projects are filmed/developed at the same time, so accidental retcons/regressions are a common thing because they can’t even know how a character has developed because it technically hasn’t filmed yet.” (See: Thor Ragnarok and Avengers IW/EG)
It’s so blatantly bad. I love it. All content creators BESIDES MCU people shut the fuck up and stop ruining your works. MCU… keep going.
“To set the record straight, this quote is completely fake. It’s an obvious falsehood, and utterly ridiculous. I actually wanted Tony dead in Civil War.”
That isn’t the real Russo Brothers twitter. It’s a satire page run by one of the Onion writers. It even says in the description of the page.
Its real
The account you screenshotted on the right is different than the one on the left. Which is honestly disturbingly dishonest behavior.
