How to Play a Grumpy Dad WITHOUT Annoying Your Forcefully Adopted Child
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2023
- Playing a begrudging father (like Joel in the Last of us) in TTRPGs is difficult... but not impossible! You just have to keep a few things in mind
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I played an old Druid that ended up becoming a begrudging father figure. His goddess sent him on a mission to "protect a wayward soul from a corrupting influence". And every f*ucking party member fit that description, so he was a cross between that and the party soccer mom.
The big reveal on his backstory was that he was a Drow that escaped the Underdark, was asked by Eilistraee to watch over a fellow Drow runaway mother and child, and settled down with them. Then one day their kid went missing, she was found by humans, and was burned at the stake. Her mother ended up blaming Druid and left to rejoin Lolth, Druid left on a journey to die serving Eilistraee (who gave him an unfinished mask that his daughter was making so they could interact with humans without their Drow features being the first thing they see)
Absolutely in love with the concept of every party member fitting the description of their mission that is so funny to me
@@PlayYourRole It quickly became a running joke that everyone passes around the "I'm the kid today" stick
I think the Piccolo + Gohan dynamic would work better when it comes to doing this trope with players since the whole purpose for the relationship between these two is so that Piccolo can teach Gohan to fight (or at least DODGE!). Much like adventurers, Gohan is meant to face danger and Piccolo knows and more importantly accepts this. This dynamic in my opinion is much more versatile and less annoying than the constantly overprotective type. You can have moments where the parent thinks the child should be ready for a certain challenge, but the child has doubts. Moments where the child is ready but the parent thinks not *yet* (yet being a key word here). And moments where they are both in agreement on how doable the challenge is. With the overprotective kind of relationship, I think it'll get boring quite quickly doing the same old song and dance over and over since any danger an adventurer might face would be enough for an over protective parent to hit the brakes.
I had to resist the urge to make several dodge jokes while recording this video ngl
Play it begrudgingly
Okay, look, you ain't WRONG
While I didn't have a grumpy father, I did have a grumpy brother type (although that relationship eventually morphed into a romance and eventually the two married, but my character's aggressive protection still persists). My fighter was and still is aggressively protective of my friend's rogue, to the point where he didn't want her to leave his sight when she needed to go do her sneaking. It eventually ended with the two having a long conversation that was basically abou boundaries, but also about acknowledging each other's strenths and believing the other has the capability do do tasks within those strengths, as well as acknowleding the concern that each had for the other, as my friend's rogue kept allowing herself to be hit so my fighter wouldn't get hurt instead of hiding after an attack. They kind of each had to pull back on their own brands of "protecting" when it cooincided with the other's strengths. They started to compromise and now they have an understanding where she lets my fighter be shield for the enemy while my fighter will hang back during her scouting. The even picked up magic items that allow them to always know where each other is, for those times they can't be in viewing distance. Honestly, their codependancy is perhaps a little unhealthy, but they're making it work for each other.
Missed opportunity to talk about IMO one of the best begrudgingly father figures ever in Lee Everett. He was headed to prison for life and ended up having to take care of Clementine during a zombie apocalypse. The ending to that first game had me messed up for days. Keep up the great work Jay!
I started this video thinking it could be an interesting concept for a character and ended it realizing i basically already played the trope just minus the parental aspects
I played in a campaign where we were a bunch of high schoolers sent on an interstellar quest. My character was an 18 year old exchange student and the rest of the party was 16 year old twins, a 12 year old prodigy, and a robot. I ended up bonding with the 12 year old and keeping the more chaotic twin in line as the de facto leader of a misfit gang of kids
I have an old Dwarf veteran fighter who this video is great for. The other party members are largely in their twenties, younger by a factor of ten.
I cant believe nobody's brought up Mr. Fredrickson from UP
Played the grumpy party dad, we lost a young elven party member which made him work harder at it, and his proudest moment was when the cleric threatened to kill him for threatening her real father (they had a shared, adversarial past, my character didn't know the cleric was the guy's daughter)
5:24 I genuinely thought the sponsor was gona be hellofresh and this was a steak pun.
I've been getting ready to play a character in this vein, and one of the things I've said in his backstory/personality description is that he doesn't want to care, but he can't keep himself from caring far too much.
Make character's skin green.
I gotchu👌.
I won't say this is going to hurt the character but I AM saying you might have missed some of the points. A+ for effort tho
I wonder if you would be willing to cover the dynamic of one player character being a mentor to one or more of the other player characters. I personally took on that role recently in a campaign I joined. The role was decided by all of us during session 0 as a way to establish why all had such trust already with a hermit character like my own and why all sides knew each other and were so quick to work together. This mostly came about due to the age disparity given my character wasn’t just an elf but an astral elf so he has an even crazier long life for me to fill in the gaps of. Since we had established as a group that my character was a known, if reclusive, figure of their shared community, it stood to reason he would make a good mentor character for those that wanted tutoring, and he was friendly enough to accept from particular insistent prospective students which these two other players’ characters were. One aspect I tied in with the dm is that this character of mine is burnt out, has ptsd, and is grieving his life from before, which is why he was even being as reclusive as he was in the first place. And now, with where the story has started, he is trying to protect and look after his now adult and competent students just after they all lost their home, an event that has reopened his own mental wounds since that is overlapped with his past experience that had originally led to his hermit lifestyle. Anyway, I thought it might be nice for you to address mentor roles and the ways they all play out and how best to play those. Some advice would be nice even if I feel I have a good dynamic with my fellow players and a decently clear idea on the personal journey I want of my astral elf.
I'm about to start the IcewindDale module with friends and I intended to do a character like this, but the child would be an NPC. Do you guys think this would still work?
😬 DEAN
Dean Pelton?
@@PlayYourRole Dean from The Iron Giant. I was thinking of that one scene where he’s introducing himself to Hogarth’s mom while he’s gritting his teeth.
oh wow never this early
You were earlier than I well done
The title of the video sounds bad out of context