The Special Snowflake Syndrome trope as used in popular culture. Our mothers always told us we were special snowflakes, each having our own unique beauty. DD DOBKOCKAKSZLET csillog arany DICE SET Glitter Gold 7 DD DOBKOCKAKSZLET csillog ezst arany. Special Snowflake Syndrome TV Tropes. Our mothers always told us we were special snowflakes, each having our own unique beauty. Maybe its for this reason that when people create a role playing character, they often choose the very unusual. This can manifest in something as simple as being a member of a rare race andor class. Or it can be a good aligned member of an Always Chaotic Evilrace, or vice versa. Players may even go so far as to make up a raceclass altogether, so as to be truly unique. This can also show up in fiction when an author writes a character with aspects of themselves in it. It is especially common in Author Avatars and Mary Sues. NearbyGamers is for people who play RPGs, CCGs, TCGs, wargames, board games any tabletop game where you need a live human on the other side of a table if you want. Dungeons Dragons logo used for the 5th Edition of the game. ACLKORONA Kalandjtkknyvek Garry Hamilton Harcos kpzelet kalandjtk knyvek 21. Miutn az Arcnlkliek orgyilkos klnja ell sikerlt. The Contemptible Cover trope as used in popular culture. Were all told never to judge a book by its cover. Many still do a books cover is one of the most. But this is not always a bad thing, for many compelling and interesting protagonists have these kinds of traits. Theres something compelling about a character who is bucking the social norms or defying his entire race. If nothing else, a great deal of angst can be milked from it. Or if your player is The Loonie, it can be Played for Laughs. Munchkins may want to play as something weird solely for the mechanical benefits, mixing traits and templates with no concern for how such a being would fit into the setting or is physically possible, for that matter. The wise gamemaster is advised not to allow such a monstrosity unless the powergamer can explain exactly how a half vampire, half dragon. Warforged came into being. Others will do it just to be disruptive or to refuse to play along with the campaigns genre because it doesnt interest them. Some gamemasters will forbid this kind of behavior, rolling their eyes at the guy who absolutely must play a dragon thief, Chaotic Good Drow ranger or an Avariel wereshark Elemental Archon of Fire. Chaotic Fallen Heroes Update. Making an interesting character has nothing to do with having an obscure background and grab bag of powers, and everything to do with how well the character is played. Of course, Fridge Logic might then suggest that if they indeed have nothing to do with it, all these things arent automatically a hindrance to making an interesting character either. However, some will rollwith it, letting people make up stat bonuses for the most ridiculous of races or classes. Such creativity has its place, however In a setting like Planescape where hundreds of worlds collide or Spelljammer planet hopping adventure such characters are no problem, and, indeed, may add to the game. Sub Trope of Character Customization. Compare Common Mary Sue Traits. See also Aerith and Bob. For when its the gamer themselves getting special treatment and one who is prone to creating such characters, see Dungeonmasters Girlfriend. Unrelated to both Cast of Snowflakes and Sizable Snowflakes. Film  In The Gamers Dorkness Rising, one player declares he is playing an Elf Monk, despite the fact that the DM said ahead of time that this was a Medieval Western Europe inspired setting and that an Eastern flavored Monk wouldnt fit, and that it was also a human only campaign. The DM begrudgingly allows the Monk class, but disallows him to play an elf, to the point where the in game avatars elf ears get ripped off. The DM then throws ninjas at them as the second combat encounter. Literature  The original Drizzt. If not intentionally written this way, he still captures the essence of this trope. Tabletop Games  As a general rule, the older any Tabletop RPG thats still supported gets, the easier it becomes to create special snowflakes in it as more races, classes, and equipment are added in every other sourcebook splatbook. This is simply because new and additional character customization options almost always sell. Pretty much any version of Dungeons Dragons one might care to name has started out with a fairly limited number of player character classrace choices and then proceeded to enable this trope more and more over time by selling more material, with almost every new sourcebook offering new ways to customize your character, and thats not even counting stuff from their official articles. Open Dbf File Arcview. All the various clones of Drizzt. In the 1st Edition Dungeon Masters Guide Gary Gygax strongly warned Dungeon Masters against allowing players to play monsters such as dragons, demonsdevils or undead as PCs in order to avoid this. This was a reversal on the original booklets, which specifically advised the DM to allow it, so maybe Gygax had some personal experience on what a can of worms hed opened. This trope has become so pervasive that it seems that sometimes the RAREST PC raceclass combo is now a straight human single classed no prestige classes character. However the real deterrent to a powergamer taking multiple classes was that the most powerful classes were spellcasters who were better off taking only pure class levels and prestige class levels, thanks to Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards. The 4th edition of D D and 3. Pathfinder both try to bring that back. Pathfinder provides incentives for most characters to remain single classed filling dead levels, giving you extra hit points or skill points for staying with your original class, payoff abilities, etc but allows you to multiclass if you want to. Old World of Darkness. In Werewolf The Apocalypse, players who wanted to play The Last of the White Howlers became a joke among the internet community. Ironically or not, this was going to be the main concept for the canceled Werewolf The Apocalypse video game, which was ammunition for a lot of the folks that felt the games designers were missing the point. Not as frequently, youd also see someone suggest either one of the other changing breeds from a splatbook the Bastet werecats were popular for this or the long extinct Croatan or Bunyip tribes, particularly in the Dark Ages and Wild West settings when they were still alive, complete with some ridiculous explanation for why an aboriginal from the Americas or Australia is so far from home. In the o. Wo. D setting, the bane of gamemasters everywhere was any player who wanted to play an Abomination a werewolf who survived being turned into a vampire, ending up as a shapeshifting, blood drinking, angst filled killing machine with the magic powers of both species, or a Skin Dancer a werewolf kinfolk who after ritually killing a bunch of were creatures then turns himself into such a werecreature, or an awakened mage who is also a fairie changeling and a dhampir and a ghoul a human minion of a vampire who drinks vampire blood and gains limited immortality and vampiric powers from it. The fact that a published series of adventures had a character approximately this obnoxious the infamous Samuel Haight certainly didnt help. For Werewolf 2. 0th, they dumped all of the crossover stuff Haight had got loaded with and kept him a Skin Dancer and already dead, just to be safe. Before that, he really was that obnoxious. In general, in the old World of Darkness the 3rd editions of the Werewolf The Apocalypse, Vampire The Masquerade, Mage The Ascension gamelines and the 2nd edition of Changeling The Dreaming put a stop to that by outright stating that such creatures were extremely For example, drinking vampire blood or being turned into a vampire will destroy the awakened avatar of an awakened character who is thus no longer able to bend reality to his will and will kill a changelings Faerie soul forever. Such characters basically end up as mundane humans who then become a ghoul or vampire, respectively.