My current campaign has 2 players who are reluctant to dive into their character roles. For this post i’ll call them Dan and Amy. Dan and Amy are a couple and play a Changeling Rogue and a Dwarf Monk. They seemed keen on playing D&D when we started, and even now insist after being asked that they enjoy it. However they don’t do much in game and the heavy lifting is left to myself as a Barbarian and our Cleric.
The best way I can put it honestly is if that you weren’t told Dan and Amy were playing a Rogue and Monk you wouldn’t know. They don’t do anything really specific of their classes, they certainly don’t take advantage of them. I don’t doubt that they haven’t read through their sheets enough and don’t know their abilities well enough but we are 9 sessions in now.
Dan doesn’t think of doing anything roguelike such as scouting ahead, looking for traps and generally trying to be stealthy, the only time he does anything remotely with his class is to minorly fuck with someone and I genuinely don’t think Dan realises how devestating a Rogue’s sneak attack can be. The worrying thing about Dan as well is is character practically isn’t even finished. He started a backstory but didn’t like it so threw it out and never went back to it. And when I was explaining to him this last session that with the new rules backgrounds now give you certain feats I tried to give him an example with that feat he would get (if his background was in the new PHB) and when I looked at his character sheet he doesn’t even have a background.
Amy on the other hand doesn’t utilise her monk abiliities in combat at all. Whenever there is combat she stays on the outside of the battlefield and uses darts. I did briefly try to tell her that if she punches things she’ll be fine but it just went over her head.
How would you recommend I approach them and nudge them in the right direction to make the most of their abilities? Thanks!
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r/DnD My current campaign has 2 players who are reluctant to dive into their character roles. For this post i’ll call them Dan and Amy. Dan and Amy are a couple and play a Changeling Rogue and a Dwarf Monk. They seemed keen on playing D&D when we started, and even now insist after being asked that they enjoy it. However they don’t do much in game and the heavy lifting is left to myself as a Barbarian and our Cleric. The best way I can put it honestly is if that you weren’t told Dan and Amy were playing a Rogue and Monk you wouldn’t know. They don’t do anything really specific of their classes, they certainly don’t take advantage of them. I don’t doubt that they haven’t read through their sheets enough and don’t know their abilities well enough but we are 9 sessions in now. Dan doesn’t think of doing anything roguelike such as scouting ahead, looking for traps and generally trying to be stealthy, the only time he does anything remotely with his class is to minorly fuck with someone and I genuinely don’t think Dan realises how devestating a Rogue’s sneak attack can be. The worrying thing about Dan as well is is character practically isn’t even finished. He started a backstory but didn’t like it so threw it out and never went back to it. And when I was explaining to him this last session that with the new rules backgrounds now give you certain feats I tried to give him an example with that feat he would get (if his background was in the new PHB) and when I looked at his character sheet he doesn’t even have a background. Amy on the other hand doesn’t utilise her monk abiliities in combat at all. Whenever there is combat she stays on the outside of the battlefield and uses darts. I did briefly try to tell her that if she punches things she’ll be fine but it just went over her head. How would you recommend I approach them and nudge them in the right direction to make the most of their abilities? Thanks! submitted by /u/DungeonsAndDestiny [link] [comments]
My current campaign has 2 players who are reluctant to dive into their character roles. For this post i’ll call them Dan and Amy. Dan and Amy are a couple and play a Changeling Rogue and a Dwarf Monk. They seemed keen on playing D&D when we started, and even now insist after being asked that they enjoy it. However they don’t do much in game and the heavy lifting is left to myself as a Barbarian and our Cleric.
The best way I can put it honestly is if that you weren’t told Dan and Amy were playing a Rogue and Monk you wouldn’t know. They don’t do anything really specific of their classes, they certainly don’t take advantage of them. I don’t doubt that they haven’t read through their sheets enough and don’t know their abilities well enough but we are 9 sessions in now.
Dan doesn’t think of doing anything roguelike such as scouting ahead, looking for traps and generally trying to be stealthy, the only time he does anything remotely with his class is to minorly fuck with someone and I genuinely don’t think Dan realises how devestating a Rogue’s sneak attack can be. The worrying thing about Dan as well is is character practically isn’t even finished. He started a backstory but didn’t like it so threw it out and never went back to it. And when I was explaining to him this last session that with the new rules backgrounds now give you certain feats I tried to give him an example with that feat he would get (if his background was in the new PHB) and when I looked at his character sheet he doesn’t even have a background.
Amy on the other hand doesn’t utilise her monk abiliities in combat at all. Whenever there is combat she stays on the outside of the battlefield and uses darts. I did briefly try to tell her that if she punches things she’ll be fine but it just went over her head.
How would you recommend I approach them and nudge them in the right direction to make the most of their abilities? Thanks!
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