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Culled these from different sources. How many do you recognize? What is missing? This is just meant to be fun and not a definitive list or target anyone in particular.

Eternal Atheist - Character's are always atheists and doesn't understand characters that believe in a diety even though in most fantasy games believing in a diety has tangible effects**.

Rulebook Hoarder - Own's every book from every edition as well as splats . All his characters come from 10 different sources ranging from splatbook to obscure editors note, and took 4 months to create the copy and paste monster

The Mechancic - All her characters are based around exploiting a game mechanic, but rarely have any personality or any background. If they don't come up with the exploit, but merely just do whatever the Char Op board came up with this month then they are a Flavor of the Week Player.

The Bland - Character has no background, no motivation, and no personality. Like the Mechanic but without the exploiting.

The Scientist - Believes that because they know how to make gunpowder their character would, as well as any number of other modern inventions, including the very idea of science itself.

Alt-man - Shows up to the game with a new character every other week and wants to tell you about his great idea for a new character.

Himself - They always play themselves in the game regardless of the character. Unable to separate character knowledge and player knowledge.

The Time-Sink - Knew 5 minutes ago that her turn was next and is now 10 minutes into their turn and hasn't decided what to do yet. On the character creation side they get their chracter built by committee becuase they always ask someone/the group before making any decision: what race should I play, what class should I play, what skills should I take, ect.

The Goldfish - Somewhat similar to The Time-Sink, except they can eat away time becuase they have no attention span at all. During the game talking to another player, trying to see TV in other room, thinking of what to eat later, wondering why there isn't any really good frozen Gyro dinners, ect.

The Fetishist - The player inserts their kink into the game at every moment, and if possible, their character.*

The Tactician - The player (not their character) has a very definite plan for the way the group should act and everyone needs to work together in that way, or god help us all. The group is everything, the player is nothing.

The Individualist - The exact opposite of The Tactician. Never, ever considers the party and always runs off alone.

Splatly McBookinson - Never uses core rulebooks. Never.

The Clone - Makes the same character over and over.

Combat Monster - Only wants combat in a game. Get's fidgety if there is no fighting.

The Pacifist - Never wants a game to have combat. Often tends to belittle combat as 'roll playing and not role playing'.


* Can't really get to much into this one, but if you have played with one of these players, you know what I mean.
** Less debatable tangible effects might be more accurate and less dismissive of actual religious people.

Oh god, I have a combination of all these in my group. It's terrible. Try playing with something like a Himself-Combat Monster-Individualist-Splatly McBookinson- bland-mechanic-rulebook hoarder. Have fun role-playing when all he wants to do is fight things and screw around.

The Greener Grass Guy -- He's always frustrated with the game the group is currently playing (maybe his character, maybe the campaign, maybe the rules themselves); the first one ready to try something new/be disgusted with whatever is currently going on. "Man, I am so sick of D&D Next."

The screw friendly fire guy- Does everything in his/her power to kill his allies. EG: firing every possible blast weapon at that carnifex which is right next to your troops.

The glory seeker- Only plays the game whilst winning,once things look down they decide that the game doesn't matter anymore and their objective of the game is to make their opponent feel as bad as possible for killing their favorite model etc.

The smug guy- believes that nor matter what their troops will beat yours, they un-caringly throw them at their opponent and will almost definitely lose however if they do win you will never hear the end of it.

Aw man I remember loads of these, remember seeing a huge list ages back. Can't remember the actual text, but the DM's Girlfriend, always has the best stuff in the campaign and stories revolve around them, also The Quote Guy, has seen every pop icon movie there is and can bring out a quote at a moments notice, often killing the mood and so on.

They had some I'd consider postives though, like the Method Actor, gets so deep into their character you're not sure which person you are talking to, and The Historian, turns up with reems of backstory.

The Rules Lawyer - That one guy who knows every little rule by heart. Corrects other players when they do something wrong and sometimes even the DM.

The Tranny -- Always plays a character of the opposite gender for reasons that are necessarily obscure but the source of much hilarious speculation. (Not to be confused with the Fetishist.) "This is a game about being someone you're not. Guys!"


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The Gotcha Guy -- Has no conception of the difference between players and characters. By "getting you" in-game, even if you cooperated for the sake of narrative, he has obtained interminable bragging rights over you IRL. DMs are the worst variant. "You should have seen your faces!"

I got the name Captain Modifier during our game last night. Something like 5 or so hits that ended up hitting because I reminded the player about the modifier with an equal number of swings from baddies that missed.

The Hindsight Oracle -- Shakes head knowingly whenever a tragedy befalls the party but did nothing at all to avert the crisis, making fellow players skeptical about his precognitive abilities. "Well, no wonder it's a TPK. Did you guys really think there were no traps in that room?"


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The Prima Donna Caster -- Has utter contempt for all non-casting classes; frequently sighs and tells other characters that he'll handle it. "Fourth edition is just trying to be a MMO."


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The Cowering Mortal -- Treats the DM like an evil spirit living in a volcano, spending every turn asking for permission to breath and blink. "We'd better pay for the pizza or it's TPK for sure!"

Manchu wrote:The Prima Donna Caster -- Has utter contempt for all non-casting classes; frequently sighs and tells other characters that he'll handle it. "Fourth edition is just trying to be a MMO."

I lol'd.

The One Trick Pony -- After reading the forums, makes a character that can do one thing really well ... but then has no fun with it. "This spiked chain is gonna rock!"


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The IRL Badass -- Tells everyone why their combat plans won't work, seemingly from fictional personal experience. "No because then I'd just put you in a reverse chokehold."


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Shoulda Woulda Coulda -- As a player, the SWC obsesses over what the party should have done better during the session. As a DM, the SWC explains to the party how the session really was fun but they weren't playing correctly. "Burning hands and oil slick are both in your spellbook. It's not my fault you didn't prepare either today."

Out of all of them I least like the goldfish, especially when I bust out a board game and need 1 or 2 players to fill it out for a fun game. The goldfish isn't even paying attention, messing around on his laptop, checking his phone constantly. Every turn he asks what happened in the last few turns and then doesn't even bother with his turn, doing whatever he can to make the game end quicker.

The Hole in the Bucket Doesn't matter how much they've played, you still have to remind them they need to roll to hit BEFORE rolling damage every time they touch dice. Rarely remembers very basic rules concepts like this.

The over kill- Dislikes a single enemy model and does everything possible in his/her power to kill it, this often ends in half an army charging a single model.

Manchu wrote:The One Trick Pony -- After reading the forums, makes a character that can do one thing really well ... but then has no fun with it. "This spiked chain is gonna rock!"

Ha! I made an Ebberon Beguiler who's backstory was that he hated the Blood of Vol, those undead worshipping guys. He fought with a spiked chain.

Enchanter/Illusionist class fighting with a piercing weapon against undead.

Yup.


For my actual contribution:

Math is hard - The player who, even though he has a science or engineering degree, can't manage to add the result of 5d6 in his mind. Inevitably plays a caster.

Go Big or Go Home Player= Repeatedly makes stupid tactical decisions that have a small chance of sucess and shouts "go big or go home" before each failure and then makes a stupid remark in an attempt to justify the failure afterwards

aka: me

Zygrot24 wrote:The Hole in the Bucket Doesn't matter how much they've played, you still have to remind them they need to roll to hit BEFORE rolling damage every time they touch dice. Rarely remembers very basic rules concepts like this.

I have one/two of these in my current game. Neither had read any of the rules more than they needed to. Thus they have no idea what stuff like holy water does. Bloody annoying especially when they whine they died because they were silly enough to get Attacks of opportunity on them


What's That?- Everything must be explained or the everything after won't make sense. Can't play any investigation role since "I don't get it"

The Opposite- Rest of party plays neutrals/law/chaos etc. This player must pick the most inappropriate alignment. Shadowrun version more annoying since they feel they can't sneak and plan they must kill everyone and leave tons of clues to be found.

The creepy guy that makes everyone uncomfortable - Every playgroup has it's social norms. Some groups like to yell and scream in character. Some groups like to dress up like their characters. Some groups like to just sit back and relax. This guy seems to have no ability to read the mindset of everyone else in the group. He'll overly describe mutilating bodies, or yell out "magical" words when he casts a spell, or do any number of different things that just makes everyone else a little creeped out.

Always chaotic evil guy - It doesn't matter what type of campaign you're running, or even what alinement his character is, this guy will always act pure chaotic evil. He'll be a Paladin in a group going around saving orphans, but he'll still butcher an entire tavern full of NPCs and burn down the city because the barmaid refused his advances.

The Distractor - While he certainly enjoys the game you're playing, he also enjoys a number of various other board, tabletop, card, and video games. He feels the uncontrollable need to constantly discuss these other interests while you're trying to play one game. If he's in the same group as the Goldfish, nothing will ever get done.

The multi - It begins with just a single character. But, then he gets a henchman (which he wants to run), and then gets married (who he also wants to run), and then makes friends with an NPC (which he turns into a PC that he runs). Before long, he's running half the party by himself.

The crybaby - This player has spent a LONG time developing his character. He knows more about the character's life than he knows about any real person. When the character inevitably dies, expect this player to yell, break things, and/or cry uncontrollably. Afterwards, they'll never come to another session and no one will ever hear from them again.

The ghost - He loves roleplaying and he loves combat. He's a friendly guy that everyone likes. He's been an established member of the group for years. But, he's married, and has kids, and a demanding job, and is member of 2 bowling leagues, and season-ticket holder to 3 local sports teams. The vast majority of sessions, he won't be there, and his character will mindlessly follow the group around, only participating on the rare occasions when someone remembers he's there. When he does show up, the entire session is people catching up with him and no gameplay happens.

Always Chaotic Evil Guy (ACE) is so incredibly true. I would add this as catch phrase "Okay then, I'll be chaotic neutral."

Hey, we have both a goldfish and a distractor... that explains why it took us over a year to run through a pathfinder module...

The Silent One: Pays attention, but never seems to be able to do anything. Never talks in dialogues, never comes up with ideas for the party, but quietly sits and listens to everything and will occasionally hit something when its time for combat.

I was the Scientist for a bit, but to be fair I was a Gnome Trapmaster, and I made Claymores and frag grenades in 3.5, and the DM couldn't find any flaws in my characters logic.

Hey ahtman. you should update the OP and we can build a master list