Dangerously Cheesy
Personally, I think that a Cheezo-stained character sheet denotes a certain artisanal quality. Besides, that’s hardly the worst you’ll encounter in this hobby. There’s nothing quite so jarring as swimming up out of the depths of your imagination, that magical world where you keep company with elven princes and warrior priestesses, to realize that your companions are actually hirsute basement dwellers with owlbear levels of social grace. Don’t get me wrong. I love gamers, and I want to see the community move beyond the stereotype. However, I cannot deny that certain of my fellows lack polish.
You’ve probably seen the longsuffering gentleman from the Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle meme. I’ve known FLGS employees to keep a bottle of Febreeze under the counter, though I’ve only heard them threaten to use it directly on customers. In my distant past, I can remember pulling a dude aside in a home game: “Hey man, I don’t want to embarrass you in front of the others, but I’ve got some deodorant you could borrow. Do you think you could–”
“Naw man, I smell it too. It’s not me. It’s her.”
He pointed at the ROTC chick that had decided to sit in. One surreptitious sniff confirmed the story. I decided not to confront smelly ROTC chick, which is why I’m still alive today.
How about you guys? Have you ever encountered a socially inept gamer giving the rest of us a bad name? Did anyone call them out on their greasy-fingered, flatulent, unwashed shenanigans?
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I knew this one person back in my high school D&D group who often drooled… Though I can’t remember much, it’s the one thing that stood out pertaining to messy players.
On another note, eraser marks and smudged writing are perhaps my two most hated things about a physical character sheet… All the writing and rewriting of things sure does take it’s toll on one’s sheet.
Just think of those eraser marks as scars, and the smudges as the blood of your enemies, and the drooling player as a half-orc barbarian.
We use digital google doc player sheets since we game over the web o sphere. So if you have a tablet you could use one of those… Though you would still have to watch out for greased fingers of doom I guess. 😛
Beware the cyber-cheese. It stains all of your PDFs bright orange.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could spot a cheesy character by the bright orange character sheet? It’s make DMing a lot easier…
I feel like the DM template should come with Detect Cheese as a spell-like abilities.
Well, one of my gaming buddies just announces his character sheet gets more character, every time it gets more coffee\pen\pencil\cheetos\crisps\etc stains….
Hey, if it’s your character sheet it’s fair ball. Besdies, there’s somethign special about a well-placed stained on the character sheet. It makes it official, you know?
I actually used my own as a Cheezos plate last session. I announced to the supplicant paper: “I anoint you, in the name of the Gygax and the Luck Gradient and the Dodecahedron….”
Once again, commenting during my Timey-Wimey start-to-finish binge.
Several of my friends and I refer to Febreeze as “Nerd Neutralizer” when we’re at various Cons, especially GenCon.
I love My Tribe, but – whew. Hygiene, folks.
(The chosen username is a play on my name, not a statement of how I smell.)
And here I was thinking the username was a Game of Thrones thing.
I keep hearing that GenCon is the king of cons, but I’ve never actually made it myself. It’d be nice to hit one where gaming is the centerpiece rather than the sideshow.