History Characters / TheGamersDorknessRising

** Where things differ is how they ultimately change: Lodge tries to make an attempt to improve himself to accommodate for his party's wishes after a talk with Joanna, subtly acknowledging that he needs to be more open-minded and finding that he can make things more interesting without needing to be so rigid. He's also much more able to actually talk things out with Joanna over his troubles, showing that he isn't incapable of being open-minded. Cass however had a falling out with Joanna before [[spoiler: (and later during the climax of the film)]] because of his inability to let go of his ControlFreak tendencies, [[spoiler: causing him to RageQuit and drive her to tears, before shamefacedly returning later to apologize after cooling off]].

** Where things differ is how they ultimately change: Lodge tries to make an attempt to improve himself to accommodate for his party's wishes after a talk with Joanna, subtly acknowledging that he needs to be more open-minded and finding that he can make things more interesting without needing to be so rigid. He's also much more able to actually talk things out with Joanna over his troubles, showing that he isn't incapable of being open-minded. Cass however had a falling out with Joanna before [[spoiler: (and later during the climax of the film)]] because of his inability to let go of his ControlFreak tendencies, causing him to RageQuit and drive her to tears, [[spoiler: before shamefacedly returning later to apologize after cooling off]].

* {{Foil}}: To Cass. Both are fans and gamers, especially in Dungeons and Dragons, who are prone to ControlFreak tendencies in their respective perspectives as gamer vs game master, who constantly come to blows whenever things don't go their way. Cass is a full-blown hardcore gamer with a heavy tendency towards typical D&D fantasy (elves and the like), and Lodge as a story-centric game master with a fantasy-European setting. Lodge expects his party to conform to his desires as a DM, but primarily because he wants to create a new story module that can be sold, something that's hard to do when his party keeps on trying to break the game and ignore his wishes. Cass, by contrast consistently tries to bend the rules in order to give himself and his team as much of an advantage (or just to fuck with Lodge), oftentimes stretching Lodge's patience. However, where things differ is how they ultimately change: Lodge tries to make an attempt to improve himself to accommodate for his party's wishes after a talk with Joanna on his inflexibility, subtly acknowledging that he needs to be more flexible and finding that he can make things more interesting without needing to be so rigid. Cass however had a falling out with Joanna before [[spoiler: (and later during the climax of the film)]] because of his inability to let go of his ControlFreak tendencies, causing him to RageQuit and drive her to tears, [[spoiler: before shamefacedly returning later to apologize after cooling off]].

** There is the general contrast between Lodge talking about desire to make an epic adventure with lived-in world and the fact that it's populatd by nameless placeholders, the story is cliche to the fault and the setting couldn't be more generic. In fact, his general idea for "unique fantasy" is that of a StandardFantasySetting - it just isn't any of the official D&D settings.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Cass constantly brings up the rules whenever he objects to Lodge's [=DMing=], but during the encounter against Mort Kemnon, the second Lodge gets distracted, he cheats by rearranging the game pieces during combat to give the party an advantage. Additionally, when the party gains access to he loot of the previous party, Cass uses it as an excuse to use multiple weapons that were ''never in the campaign to begin with''.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He makes a big deal about not wanting to have any Monks in the party, since it would break the fantasy-Europe setting. Then the second combat encounter is with ninjas. This doesn't go unnoticed by Cass.

* SkillPointReset: [[spoiler:Has her levels as wizard replaced by equal levels of cleric by a goddess at the end of ''Dorkness Rising''.]]

* SkillPointReset: [[spoiler:Has her levels as sorcerer replaced by equal levels of cleric by a goddess at the end of ''Dorkness Rising''.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He makes a big deal about not wanting to have any Monks in the party, since it would break the fantasy-Europe setting. Then the second combat encounter is with ninjas. This doesn't go unnoticed by Cass.
** He wants to deliver "a fantasy world with its own mysteries and pitfalls". What he makes is "just another [[StandardFantasySetting cookie cutter setting]] with no real surprises" that's not only bland, but Lodge himself fails to realise it (his players are too busy killing things to care).

* {{Hypocrite}}: Cass constantly brings up the rules whenever he objects to Lodge's [=DMing=], but during the encounter against Mort Kemnon, the second Lodge gets distracted, he cheats by rearranging the game pieces during combat to give the party an advantage.

->"What would you rather have? A fantasy world with its own mysteries and pitfalls or just another cookie cutter setting with no real surprises?"

* WritersBlock: He suffers from a bad case.

* StupidGood: The rest of the group has to blatantly lie that there is an evil act being committed somewhere off screen just to get this LawfulGood paladin to leave in order for the rest of them to torture a villain for information, of which normally he would not allow. Lampshaded by the third time this happens, Sir Osric is well aware of their antics, sighs to himself and half-heartedly leaves to "fight evil".

->"I spent 2 hours on this character and I'm gonna play her, okay?"

* TheRoleplayer: Notably the only member of the group with any interest in roleplaying, rather than killing things.

Joanna's fighter with no Strength or Constitution bonus and 45 hit points at level nine (to clarify, this is easily less than half of the max, including Constitution bonuses, that a fighter could have). [[labelnote:More Explanation]]A level 9 fighter in 3.5 would have around 8d10+10+9*[Con mod] hp. On average, 8d10 would roll 44, so solving for her Con mod, it's a -1. In other words, not only is Daphne's Constitution ''bad'', but she even has a Constitution ''penalty''.[[/labelnote]] On the plus side, the [[WeakButSkilled combination of feats]] she took make her pretty badass. On the negative side, [[CripplingOverspecialization her unique build makes her less than incredible when they come across really tough enemies]] and, at least from the point of view of the other players, she insists on talking to [=NPCs=], thinking about the story, and doing things because that's what her character would do.

* CriticalHitClass: Her build, which emphasises on harder-hitting and more frequent criticals.
* GlassCannon: 45 HP at 9th level. And no Constitution bonuses.

* WeakButSkilled: Her physical stats are abysmal for a Fighter but makes up for it with a clever combination of feats.

->"You could have been a GOD! I know Mormons who would kill for that! "

--->Indeed! The four elements, like man alone, are weak - but together they form the strong fifth element...Boron!

->"I'm not evil! I'm chaotic neutral!"

Gary's gameplay philosophy seems to be "If it moves, kill it," making him TheRealMan. He insists that his Sorceress character is ChaoticNeutral despite her tendency to kill peasants, and he forgets that his character is female, leading to some humorous situations.

* TheRealMan

* ChaoticNeutral: The alignment Gary ''claims'' Luster is to weakly justify her actions. By the end, everyone at the table flat out says she's Evil, not Neutral.

* TokenEvilTeammate: A parody on the type of players who try to justify their character evil actions by inacuratly labeling them as ChaoticNeutral.

!! Leo [[spoiler:[[RealJokeName DaVinci]]]]

A death demon and TheDragon. [[spoiler:He makes Brother Silence his total slave because Cass rolled a 1.]]

* CompellingVoice: Compelling fear aura, but whatever gets in its range, can be then commanded by voice.

The BigBad[[spoiler:...or so it seems]]. He discovered the Mask of Death and plans to use it to overthrow the king.

The leader of the Church of Therinn [[spoiler: and the final villain. He wishes to use the mask to achieve his own ends]].

* DarkMessiah: And that despite being a priest of a good-natured goddess and head of a CrystalDragonJesus church.

** This joke can pass to youngest viewers, since D&D 5e and Pathfinder™ 2e don't have Bardic Knowledge as a class feature for all bards.