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![107/ 12158 1 [Return] [Catalogl [Bottom] [Update] Auto] File: 20190225_002919.jpg (154 KB, 476x532) Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)07:59:50 No.6534793865347972 6534801965348129 2265348140 6534863265348684 3265348712 265343765 65348783 explain to me what "special snowflake" means in context of making a character and at what point it becomes a problem 65349201265349568 653496766535039565351074 65351152 Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)08:02:47 No.65347972 2265348019 2265348497 P> OP) When some suspension of disbelief is required to believe the character was able to continue from Point A to Point B in their backstory, or even that Point A or Point B could happen at all Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)08:08:23 No.65348019 ile: 1474898591868 jpg (58 KB, 600x600) 65347938 (OP) When you start tacking on personality or physical traits to your character to try and make them unique without tying them together cohesively. Because if it were cohesive you wouldn't be a special snowflake, you'd have an unusual character It's only really a problem when a player tries to draw an inordinate amount of attention to themselves, or if what -65347972 describes happens Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)09:47:53 No.65348632 65347938 (OP) When you break the lore to make a character that should be impossible in the setting so that you can feel unique. The GM needs to alter parts of the setting for this dude or create special rules for it (not that there is anything wrong with properly executed special rules.) Very often these characters have real no flaws and their back ground suggests that they should be better than they statistically are Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)10:13:06 No.6534876565349214 65347938 (OP) It's a character that has a bunch of unique features or background elements used as a crutch by bad writers Take a character and strip them down to just dialogue, thoughts, and actions. If there's nothing valuable left, then they're a special snowflake Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)10:25:35 No.6534886865349172 When it's literally just You, but better in every way, personified in the game Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)11:04:29 No.6534916765349172 65349142 the PC has friends Too much of a power fantasy for me desu Anonymous 03/26/19(Tue)11:22:38 No.6534929165349381 2265352074 I'll give an example from my current 5e campaign. we have a tiefling monk with a criminal background. so far so good, she used the monastery to escape from the life of crime and to overcome her infernal bloodline. this is a unique uncommon character but all is reasonable what isn't reasonable is the homebrew monk path she chose "way of the force" or some dumb b------- like that, essentially a monk subclass that's just a Jedi fan fiction that makes no sense. she can read minds and float around and manipulate people but the worst part is some dumb mechanic that allows her 6 attacks per turn if she spends enough ki points](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/475/196/126.jpg "spot the snowflake")
