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 No.217561

We all know that guy. The one who eats tacos with cheese with his fingers before touching your models, the one with the homebrew Spess Mehrens chapter that has Terminators with jump packs, the one whose cleric wields a holy katana weeping blood… but then there's this guy. He's the one who makes the games awesome. After ten sessions, the entire group still tells stories about this guy, how he helped you create your character, encouraged you to fulfill your destiny by fighting the Dark Lord 1v1, then made a joke that cracked you all up.

What are your stories with this guy? Got any? I hope you do, because this guy is awesome!

Self-praise is accepted, but subject to scrutiny.

 No.217701

>>217561

Best I can offer is old write faggotry:

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Oscar

Sorry.


 No.217770

I got a good friend I would like to consider as a this guy.

>Generally in a good mood

>In fact I never seen him in a bad mood

>Always plays the one character who pulls the group through everything while sort of being a sideline character so other people can get chance to shine.

>I accused him of talking stuff behind my back and he didn't take it personally. I feel like shit now that I even thought that but I didn't know him that well at the time. I been burned before and since.

>Always there to talk to me and generally be someone I can vent to

>Feel so much better about the group just for him being there.

>Although he is new to roleplaying he is good at roleplaying

Currently not playing in a campaign with him but will be starting up a Dark Heresy campaign with him and some other people. I can't wait for it, should be really fun.


 No.217809

My older sister is this guy in our games.

>Plays orc warrior

>Painfully nice guy, but still an orc

>Me and my buddy talk IC about how humans have to bring civilization to these barbarian orcs

>Her character: "Daggers can miss, but words always hurt."

>Cracks jokes and boasts during the entire game

>ALWAYS in character

>That guy complains loudly about everything the GM does

>My sister just silently endures it and makes the best of every situation

>Still, when the GM really fucks up and then shitposts about it in our FB-group, she calls him out and tells him about what he did wrong

She also cockblocked someone who hung out with a girl instead of me. This wouldn't be a big deal, even though he lied about it when I asked him why we can't meet, if it wasn't for the fact that this was the one day in the year where him and I always meet.


 No.217834

Our group's THIS GUY is one of my best friends

>Always offering to host game if we have no where to play

>Very generous when it comes to paying for other people who don't have cash when we order pizza

>actually reads the book for the system we're playing

>builds mechanically sound characters, but also figures out how to break the system as necessary.

>gets along with everyone.

>never once started an inter-party fight or tried to kill another player character

>claims he isn't creative but he's made numerous fun and memorable characters

>he's also the first one to volunteer to GM when we're burned out or between games

>always has a plan or a way to deal with a tough situation in game

>is always full of surprises, even when you think you've put him in a challenging situation

>naturally ends up being the party leader/face because he's an active and engaged player.

>rules lawyers to help save other players, but never pushes his luck

>Is always quick to grab a book and start flipping through whenever there's a specific question or reference needed

I wish I could have 3 more of this glorious motherfucker so I could have the perfect group.


 No.217935

>>217834

He sounds like a real bro. Keep him tight and never let him go. No homo.


 No.217958

>>217701

I'm not sure if Oscar technically falls under THIS GUY on the spectrum, though. If anything, he's technically a THAT GUY, albeit one with beautiful and entertaining execution.


 No.218127

>>217958

Definitely that guy. Just because you ironically turn a game to shit does not mean you don't turn it to shit.


 No.218146

>>218127

But the only one he definitively turns to shit is the first one.

Accidentally getting the starship's computer baked as fuck wouldn't be out of place in a Star Trek episode; weird science is what they do every day.

While you could argue over whether or not knocking up Sailor Moon and getting the rest of the scouts to toke up constitutes "turning the game to shit", it pretty much comes down to whether or not you think that messing with canon characters turns the game to shit. And, honestly, if you're gonna play a bunch of canon characters, you're gonna change something eventually.

Oscar's quick thinking straight-up finishes off a boss in the D&D3 campaign. It killed a couple PCs too, but that happens in non-stoned campaigns. The only reason he got kicked out was butthurt over a bunch of mournful posts that got ignored, which–again–isn't really turning the game to shit. Stoners ignore shit. It happens.

In the last one, it's literally just him cockblocking the leader of the werewolves. That's…okay, maybe it made the leader of the werewolves really unhappy. But Oscar had no hand in trying to hunt Oscar down and ritually slaughter him, which is what actually ruined the game for the others.


 No.218167

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>>218146

Place some ice on those breasts, anon. It's fun to read his shenanigans, but don't get this aspect of Oscar wrong. He is a That Guy, a character made with the exact intent of ruining rpgs. It may have been for mostly free-form PBP rpgs that most people don't care about, but he managed to ruin them nonetheless.

>Accidentally getting the starship's computer baked as fuck wouldn't be out of place in a Star Trek episode; weird science is what they do every day.

I'll concede on that point because that was definitely more of a GM impetus. But other evidence shows otherwise.

>While you could argue over whether or not knocking up Sailor Moon and getting the rest of the scouts to toke up constitutes "turning the game to shit", it pretty much comes down to whether or not you think that messing with canon characters turns the game to shit. And, honestly, if you're gonna play a bunch of canon characters, you're gonna change something eventually.

This is actually a point in favor of the Oscar = That Guy theory. It's a classic example of his method, by using the contrast of his character's overall normalcy (and effective uselessness) to act as a drag on the main story as a whole. He even mentions that the Sailor Senshi continue his story without him, turning it from a story of magical teenage girls saving the world from unknown evils to "pregnancy and drugs rpg."

>Oscar's quick thinking straight-up finishes off a boss in the D&D3 campaign. It killed a couple PCs too, but that happens in non-stoned campaigns. The only reason he got kicked out was butthurt over a bunch of mournful posts that got ignored, which–again–isn't really turning the game to shit. Stoners ignore shit. It happens.

He played a commoner in an rpg wherein every character is meant to fill some form of vital party role. And in 3.X, Commoner was flat-out the most useless class, one that was technically supposed to be relegated to NPCs only. Again, he was a drag on his fellow party members. You wouldn't forgive the guy in your game who purposefully made you carry his useless ass throughout the campaign.

>In the last one, it's literally just him cockblocking the leader of the werewolves. That's…okay, maybe it made the leader of the werewolves really unhappy. But Oscar had no hand in trying to hunt Oscar down and ritually slaughter him, which is what actually ruined the game for the others.

By acting as the tribe's human world gopher, he was placing himself at risk of such events. Albeit, he wasn't the main source of that game's downfall (that onus definitely falls upon the head of the tribe leader,) but he had his hand in that pie. Just as much as the tribe chieftan.

It's also worth pointing out that the 1d4chan page for Oscar omits quite a few of his stories, which more clearly paint the picture of Oscar as That Guy. Keep in mind, Oscar is a character that has been used by more than one fa/tg/uy, at least. Here's another instance of an Oscar player using the character in both a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends RP and some kind of "Whatever the Fuck" Freeform including Shinji Ikari, Deadpool, and Arnold from "Hey Arnold!": http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12669503/

One anon in that thread actually gives a very succinct point as to how a character like Oscar is able to thrive in such communities, where it seems like everyone and their pet hamster has the capacity for worldwide apocalypse. (pic related)

It also simultaneously explains just how Oscar is a That Guy character. Now, you might be thinking "But anon, those kinds of RPs were destined to fail and self-destruct anyways with that kind of player base." And to that end, you'd be right. But by utilizing that specific tactic, Oscar acts as a community-wide catalyst which facilitates that self-destruction. Oscar is a character that robs several linchpin members of those communities/RPs of the attention and validation they desperately crave, which causes them either to leave the community (and probably take a few other linchpin users with them) or to initiate some manner of tirade, both of which having the effect of sundering the community from within. That much can be seen in the first vampire story, the Star Trek story, the Death Note story, and the Foster's Home story.


 No.218174

>>218167

>and some kind of "Whatever the Fuck" Freeform including Shinji Ikari, Deadpool, and Arnold from "Hey Arnold!"

that sounds like the kind of shit that would happen in an old freeform RP that I used to hang out in. Right down to 50% of it being people fucking each other, and the other 50% being utterly ridiculous catastrophes.


 No.218217

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>>218174

>>218167

The thing you have to realize about Oscar stories and, indeed, most freeform RP trolling stories on /tg/, is that most of them are complete bullshit.

Unless we're talking about an AOL chatroom RP or a rarely-visited RP subforum on a regular forum, most attempts to derail the campaign are either ignored or result in the perpetrator get dingdong bannu'd the moment they start causing a fuss.

source: I've been doing freeform fuckery for way too long.


 No.218221

>>218217

Me too, Anon. I'm in too deep. I even made a freeform board here.

I'm doing my best to give absolutely zero fucks about what happens in it. The best stories happen when you stop saying "no" and start saying "Yes, and?".


 No.218263

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>>218217

>ERP

I will never understand why people do this.


 No.218269

>>218263

Even better ERP sections for the underage crowd


 No.218271

>>218263

How else are you gonna fuck the waifus, Anon?


 No.218296

Even 'this guy' threads become about 'that guy's


 No.218446

>>217561

If I might offer my own tale

>Be me

>vaguely remember D&D days from youth

>Find out that there is a thing called pathfinders at a local hobby shop

>Show up, choose my character

To be fair, I intentionally made my character to be that guy but it worked beautifully

>We investigate a spoopy museum

>We enter into it, start fightin various spoopy monsters

>We cut off the head of one enemy and they turn human, but the head is still a monster

>the plot thickens

>As we go into the final room before the boss fight, I get an idea

>Tell DM my plan

>DM starts giggling like an idiot, tells the store staff

>they start giggling too

A little back story

The DM was totally chill, smoked da herb. There were 4 of us in total.

One of the players was an autist who HAD to be a female.

One of the others didn't give any fucks, decided to be an old man wizard

And the last was a bit of a sperg but pretty decent.

The autist (who had a neckbeard by coincidence) was antifun, refusing to let me engage in any sheninigans.

>I have the autist go into the room first

>he gets BTFo, runs out of the room

>I take the entirely useless shovel from my pack, pry up a flagstone from the floor and plant a recovered sword into the ground pointed up

>Autist tries to argue that it's only a 2 inch hole, bleh bleh bleh

>roll a natural 20, the sword in teh 2 inch hole is now a trap

>The monsters come out of the room

>the first one gets impaled on the sword

>the second one also gets impaled on the sword

>the first tries to escape but has to roll to get the 2nd monster off

>Both fail horribly and my trap works

>Get to boss

>Defeat the boss

>Boss has 1HP left

>Roll successfully to throw the severed head

>It does 1HP of damage

After explaining what happened, everyone in the store was in tears and the autist was all pissy.

I love being that guy.


 No.218448

>>218446

Context is important, anon.


 No.218464

>>218448

What do you mean?

I'm actually slightly autistic, forgive me if i don't know how to explain things well.

Well, I had a character named Master Chef

He was a rogue.

He could make traps, throw objects and was just generally useless and not at all what was needed.

If I find his character sheet I could go into more detail.


 No.218465

>>218464

>Well, I had a character named Master Chef

>He was a rogue.

Please tell me he was a Patty Officer of the Gravy.


 No.218474

>>218464

>What do you mean?

I'm not seeing the "that guy" moment here. You bent the laws of physics a bit with a natural 20 to make a wonky trap. It's a bit annoying, but not worthy of the "that guy" label.


 No.223198

does "THAT GUY, but for a good reason" count?


 No.223207

>>218263

ERP has, for a long time, been the only way i can get access to my fetish.

yes on omegle


 No.227871

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>>217561

>Eating while gaming

Have some willpower please…


 No.227911

>>227871

Maku Donaru: The Animated Series?


 No.227920

>>223207

Sounds like you need to find some like-minded people on the internet and pretend-fuck like rabbits.


 No.227932

>>227871

wait

hold up

You tryn to tell me

McDonald is open from 6 until midnight?




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