Every time I play D&D it gets really fucking lame. And I know it's the people I play with.
I've always been the new guy. I want to go on adventures. But I feel like I'm playing a really lame battle system.
I want to go to a bar and get drunk and start a fight and run away with my shoes that can walk on the ceiling.
I want to use my ability to talk shit to scare dragons away
Instead I pretty much get bored very fast and try to abuse the battle system. I played a monk and would just grapple and throw people off stuff. I was on an airship and everyone took turns hitting people with stuff. I killed everyone by running over to people and throwing them off the ship.
Then I gained the ability to fly. So I would just grapple people, fly, and then drop them like the angels in Dogma.
The DM was clearly getting annoyed by this so he'd throw heavier enemies at us. So I'd drop stuff on the enemies. Things would play out like Tom and Jerry.
All the while this was happening, I'd take like 30 seconds to take my turn. That's thinking included. I am literally one of those assholes with the instinct to wait in line at McDonald's and only decide what I want when I'm finally at the counter. I can't be bothered to think because there is probably some talking to do.
So as soon as it's my turn, I'll think. And I'll do something I've described above. Sometimes I'd spend a turn posing because I had been watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure for awhile. But, other than that, pretty much that.
But, these fucking guys man. They open all these DnD books and take like 20 minutes to take their turn trying to come up with some bullshit combination to win the battle instantly instead of just playing shit out with their character.
Like, that's what was fun for me was being the character. If I have to look at the fucking script/DND book, then I'm not playing my character.
Seriously. If I ever do DnD again, it's only under the condition that books are restricted somehow. This shit is bullshit.