I can get why some people like Drizz't do'Urden but personally speaking I genuinely just dislike R.A. Salvatore as an author and as a person. Outside of that, I don't know. To this day I have never had a proper DM/GM for any tabletop system and thus my experience is solely video game and novel adaptations.

That being said Baldur's Gate was never good, unless we're talking about the books in which case sure. Also Bioware writing the same story multiple times was what they were good at and they should have just stuck with that.

Though the original Neverwinter Nights campaign is an insufferably dreadful slog and frankly you could not pay me to play through it again. I finally did that this year. I think I would rather have been shot again.

I have a physical collection of R.A. Salvatore's books about Drizzt Do'Urden. Although, all I really remember is that the hero is a dark elf..

This was one of my favorite novel trilogies, which I reread many times. It belongs to the Forgotten Realms cycle, part of the Dungeons & Dragons series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Bonds

One of the intelligent races was represented by the Saurials, bipedal creatures with dinosaur features
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Saurial

Among the many meme creatures was the god of decay. His body was composed of branches, rotting matter, eyes, vines, and mouths of various sizes. He possessed the ability to enslave other intelligent beings by implanting seeds of Moander into their ears, which transformed the infected into rotting puppets under his control. The telltale sign of this infection was a small vine coiled around the victim's ear or a white orchid flower growing from it.

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Moander

I really liked the moment when he kidnapped the main character by pulling her into his body nd tried to keep her alive by feeding her a raw, strangled deer and wild apples. Spoiler: the girl was rescued. Using her fiery breath, the red dragon Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco ignited the flammable gases that were emanating from the rotting body of the horrible avatar. This caused a powerful explosion, but Mist herself also perished in that blast.

Obliterating Drizzt and his little company in BG2 was amazing

Originally posted by im coming for you...:

what are some of the worst types of characters did you guys encounter in dnd?

Expendable Elf girls. They exist to be killed and abused by the players.

Gotta use burners on them bro

I used to have a DND group in high school and one of our party members barely attended sessions and expected the session to accommodate his incredibly complex character he made, being a Cleric with an entertainer background who wanted to worship a home-brew deity even though this wasn't a home-brew campaign. He was annoying at times.

Hyper-aggressive self-righteous paladin who absolutely WILL NOT compromise on doing the right thing at all times. No theft. No lying. No compromise with "evil" not even that one NPC who regrets their actions you must smite them right now your holy god demands it.

It's your chance to ruin the main plot of the dungeonmaster. No win scenario where you're surrounded by an army of orcs? You boldly charge into combat swinging your greatsword because you are the hero and your god will of course save you.

Any time your party members want to do something quietly or subtly without attracting attention? You kick in the door and scream that the light of the gods demands the wicked to bow before you, or you will strike them down.

The rogue wants to pickpocket that criminal and avoid causing a scene? No you are a righteous paladin and you will storm into the skeevy dive bar and boldly slay every criminal and evil-doer in a bloodbath of righteous violence!

https://youtu.be/jISfLXxKLaI

Originally posted by King of Goats:

Gotta use burners on them bro

Bbq elf is delicious!

I made a monk/illusionist once.
Talk about completely useless in nearly every situation lol

the worst were party members who wanted to cripple and murder my character. The worst party ever.

Originally posted by Sephiroth:

the worst were party members who wanted to cripple and murder my character. The worst party ever.

there is one guy who wanted to be vergil from dmc in a curse of strahd campaign

Obviously, nobody likes the "I'm in stasis 75% of games because my player never shows up" character.

I'm sure it's not impossible, but I've never seen someone successfully RP a character from another IP without being absolutely cancerous and meme-y about it.

Players who want to ERP with every single NPC of the opposite sex are a complete waste of everyone's time. Even GMs who will put up with it would rather not need to. I don't think anyone should put up with it, though.

As someone who's usually a 'jester' type player, I can say for any fellow jesters, exercise restraint! It stops being fun for anyone when someone's constantly going full ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Also, don't do multi-jester parties, they don't work; either work out who's doing it or just hit the brakes yourself.

Finally, the "party strife because I'm edgy" character is probably the ultimate douchebag move. It's acceptable if there's a backstory reason for it and it's done in a way that isn't disruptive. It's just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid if you're only trying to flex how stupidly emo your dual wielding drow rogue is.

Originally posted by OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle:

Obviously, nobody likes the "I'm in stasis 75% of games because my player never shows up" character.

I'm sure it's not impossible, but I've never seen someone successfully RP a character from another IP without being absolutely cancerous and meme-y about it.

Players who want to ERP with every single NPC of the opposite sex are a complete waste of everyone's time. Even GMs who will put up with it would rather not need to. I don't think anyone should put up with it, though.

As someone who's usually a 'jester' type player, I can say for any fellow jesters, exercise restraint! It stops being fun for anyone when someone's constantly going full ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Also, don't do multi-jester parties, they don't work; either work out who's doing it or just hit the brakes yourself.

Finally, the "party strife because I'm edgy" character is probably the ultimate douchebag move. It's acceptable if there's a backstory reason for it and it's done in a way that isn't disruptive. It's just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid if you're only trying to flex how stupidly emo your dual wielding drow rogue is.

luckily the one time i played, my dm does "fade to black" rather than describe scenes in detail and empowers lusty player behavior.

Originally posted by im coming for you...:

luckily the one time i played, my dm does "fade to black" rather than describe scenes in detail and empowers lusty player behavior.

Oh, that's definitely the way to do it. If someone actually let it play out in front of everyone that would be awful lol

But when a player is spending every single town stop chasing tail across town, doing charisma checks and ♥♥♥♥ for 'sex' that's not even real it's just so idiotically pointless and uninteresting to every other person at the table.

A monk, dressed up as a mage, uttering "I CAST FIST!" everytime he strikes. :)