It's because in AD&D you'd have to roll saves for literally every piece of equipment on a character in some circumstances to see what got destroyed. It was something of a fun-killer to put a combat on hold to spend five minutes going down someone's character sheet making saving throws for everything in their inventory.
That's just bad DMing. That type of shit should never come up unless your character is actually that freaking stupid. Like, their stats say they have below average intelligence. And even then, I'd still allow you to roll to have a chance to figure it out in character, just with large negatives.
These were mostly just examples I pulled out of my ass. I was just using it for the framing of *This is the only way this person ever plays he will never take a basic action or use a spell or use a RAW ability they just want to invent everything they do out of whole cloth* which I said yeah can be a lot of fun in a lot of different scenarios, but when you are stalling the game every turn so I have to come up with custom rolls and rules for nearly every action you take it starts to wear on my nerves.
If the player is doing stupid shit like that, its the DM's job to take them to the side and tell him to knock it off, and if he doesn't, tell him to either cut it out or leave the game. Otherwise, I would expect a person to simply play a character consistently, and if the character isn't stupid "in-character" I don't expect him to act habitually stupid.
Sounds like that guy was just an ass. The only way to deal with a player like that is to give him the boot, preferably sooner rather than later.
There's also the travesty that was 4E and thinking WoTC was trustworthy after that and its DMCApalooza.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this - I've had a few characters do similar things. I've also noticed a huge uptick in 'teehee I'm a retard' characters, but always framed in very PC terms. I think Critical Role and Fallout 3 are a lot to blame for this, because everyone and their mother I know has some story about the 'dumb Barbarian who doesn't understand things', when what they mean is 'I have Intelligence 10, because this is 5e and Intelligence is fucking useless for anyone but Wizards, so I play average Intelligence as 'hurrdurr, me wear frying pan on head to protects from da shooty shoot beams'.
It floors me that people don’t try different gamers and systems. My friends and I like Tensha Bansho Zero.
Go to /tg/ on 4chan, look for the 5e general, you're looking for the link to the trove and it should be in the OP
If you want access to the 5e SRD (including third party resources), just go to 5esrd.com (the same guys who have the Pathfinder SRD). They have the entirety of the SRD on their site, so you can look up whatever you want and don't have to worry about buying multiple books.
Just another case of people not understanding the rules, and that having a 10 in any ability score does not make you an idiot or incapable, it just makes you average. As in a 10 in intelligence is average intelligence, not an idiot or pant-on-head retard. The only way to deal with that is to explain the rules and if they still act like morons, just drop them from the game.
Yeah, especially in this day and age where finding pdfs of every tabletop game is easy. I have a hard rule that i don't buy physical books until after reading it and liking it.
