So, what are YOUR quirks?, We did other players and GMs... Options

[ElFenrir]

And please, keep this sane. This is a place for discussing one's OWN personal little...quirks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

We had threads discussing what some players do wrong, and what some GMs do wrong. But what are some of your own personal little skeletons in the closet? I don't think we're all perfect folks. So whether you're a rules lawyer, someone who insists that the only fun style must be played on a level where you start with a crackpipe and a rusty knife, or if you're a powergamer extrordinaire, here is where you can air your own laundry out. Hopefully for a laugh, because long ago I realized that if you can't laugh at yourself, there isn't much you can laugh at.

These can be either as a player or GM. They can be quirks, outright flaws, or something inbetween(aka, harmless stuff that just makes you a pain in the ass sometimes.)

I can start, here.

1. I have a habit of being a hardwired min-maxer. I'm not sure where this came from, but I'm guessing it was from an old gaming group I had(not my current one-but where I loved the people and still do, and while they weren't a bunch of munchkins, they WERE good at the min-maxing and did it often.) I basically have it in me it seems, whenever I make a character of any kind-combat, non-combat, middle-ground, or whatnot, there will be minmaxing involved. It takes me a long time to make a character sometimes. I need 10k nuyen? I look at my skills, shave here, a little more there, shave back again here, toss more into Athletics and drop a level of Synthacardium, not lose any dice, and get the 10k nuyen without really suffering otherwise(naturally a shaved skill had a specialization added back on.) No matter how hard I try to make a totally non minmaxed character, I end up going back to the number crunching. I've never coughed out a 51 die Pornomancer, nor do I want to. In fact, I don't really try to overpower the things-I just like to shore up weaknesses as much as possible. This leads me oftentimes in character critiques to automatically go into minmax mode when I state my opinion. THAT being said...

2. Even though I minmax, I'm known for making notoriously long backgrounds sometimes. I don't overload on the angst or tragedy...but I'm known for telling rather intricate stories, sometimes in mini-novel or short story form. However, this has a drawback-while it gets me into my character's heads...I end up liking how they interact with the other people in the story too much and no longer want to play them at the table. Solution: Short stories are fine, but I must try not to get too attached or let them go on to long. I've been trying to find a nice happy medium here somewhere. I somehow find I need to get to know the character a bit beforehand before I start the game. I don't know why.

3. An interesting twist on number 1. While I am a hardwired minmaxer-this one isn't really a flaw as much as just an odd quirk, I prefer making non-combative trolls and orks and more combat-oriented humans and elves(with dwarves my preferred mages. Ok, so that last one is kind of a minmax.) I dunno, but something just feels better about it. I guess I've seen too many of the ''me hit things'' trolls and just like to turn it around, while my current elf character is albino death on two legs, snapping a neck in one hand while he tweaks his gun in the other. This is an odd quirk with me that I haven't figured out yet.

4. Another quirk: like I mentioned in the gender thread, I play mainly male characters, and am told I'm actually better at it, even though I'm a female. I have a couple of female characters-both human, a gunslinger and an alchemist, which I like very much, but most of my concepts end up male. Again, not a flaw really but just an odd quirk. I blame it on my rampant tomboyism growing up and the majority of my friends having been guys, making me kinda ''one of the guys.''

5. I tend to get confused when I see people discussing something that is ''overpowered'', even though I have never had a problem with it. I think this quirk comes from, the past bunch of years, having one particular group(not the one that got me minmaxing, but another one), who just play so well together, we're willing to work almost anything in if it will make someone enjoy the game more. We tend to go rather lax on some limits(no Availability limits, we go more oldschool and allow modification past the Augmented Max for our own reasons-one being that it doesn't make sense to us that both a human and a dwarf with Reaction 3 end up with different limits after cybermods. a 3 is a 3, regardless, and if you pays the essence and the nuyen, you should be allowed to pass. Just another example of our houserules.) Basically, we leave things very open, and we still have fun, balanced games that no one ends up being the ''star'' of. But I guess a quirk of mine is sometimes I have trouble realizing that stuff like this DOES cause problems at other people's tables. This might be due to my favorite power level to play at is what I nicknamed ''Gritty Manga.'' It seems to be a bit higher than the average person around the board(700-750 Karma, though when we play with BP we usually sticked to 400, I don't know.) Sort of like...kinda pro-level, but still street. It's hard to explain. This might tie into number 6. In the end, though, I remember that everyone's mileage varies, and that what might work at table A might not work at table B.

6. I admit, I really am not a big fan of the super-low powered game. I mean, I admit, I have that little thing-I'm a regular person IRL, let me do something more fun at the table. While I CAN have fun in the 300-320BP game, I somehow feel that I'm missing something. And besides, the min-maxer in me ends up coming out again anyway, only this time, the character DOES end up overpowered. (I think one thing I noticed about the more 650-750 Karma level, is that when we minmax, the minmaxed character somehow doesn't look like the ''star'' as much as a minmaxed character in a low powered game.)

7. In my current group, we have a rather funny stance on Edges and Flaws/Qualities that might make some people here cringe, but here goes: If you're obviously taking a flaw for the points, just admit it. We tend to be much easier on you if you just come clean, rather than try to hide and explain your way out of your Moderate Allergy to Skittles. Don't worry, we'll work it in somehow. We promise. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

8. I have a hard time saying 'no' to certain things. Now, not everything. If someone walks up and says ''my grandfather left me 25% of Ares' stock and a Thor shot'', well, of course that's a big ''no.'' But if someone wants to do something not in canon, and they are really excited about the idea, I will try desperately to work with them, because I believe that everyone should be able to play the character that they really want. For example, there are no rules with Goat shapeshifters. But someone has an idea to play a Dwarven Goat shaman/shapeshifter and they really like the idea. I will really try to work with them to come up with something for that.

Well, those are but a few of mine.