Someone please hand me a battleaxe, and not five of them.

[Asrana]

The gamers of my school used to think Z was just a tad inexperienced...he hadn't lost his newbie innocence, but he wasn't dumb as a post...well, and he took everything personally, but it could be dealt with.

Until this morning. x_x

A little background first, though: I just began running a 4th level D&D campaign on thursday nights, big group (9 at the moment), it worked out fine enough though. Players right now have been employed by a group of fey'ri from a forest to help raid and destroy another group in the nearby mountains. A deal was struck, players were payed half the cash up front to help supply them in their raid. People start buying things...the samurai sacrificed gold to enchant his wakizashi, the half-dragon forfeited his entire payment for a nifty magical cloak, others decided they would consider their decisions until next time. Z seemed rarther intrigued with these people selling the players stuff and an idle 'fully stocked armory' comment I'd made.

3rd hour, in marches Z to english class as we wait for class period to officially begin. Down comes a list in front of me, and the gamer spoke. "This is what I want to buy." Out he marches as class begins.

Looking over the list, we find five of most every weapon you'll commonly see in the hands of 1st level characters. Daggers, shortspears, heavy crossbows, maces, longswords, battle axes, great axes, greatswords, longbows, bastard swords, etc. The sole exception being the Mighty Composite Longbow (+3), oh, and the 440 crossbow bolts, and 840 arrows. Nothing was even masterwork. Nothing could be enchanted later on for good use.

Being of mild intelligence, he had thought to include a cart in the costs, and we aren't sure if he intend to hitch his riding horse to the cart or if he just forgot about that detail. He has requested 100 weapons, that cannot be enchanted, cost 2200 gold pieces, and weigh something over 600 pounds. By the way, no, there is no militia to be supplied.

I pass the list to the other three gamers in the class, all of us are quite baffled.

Now, this may seem stupid on the surface, but it gets worse as you go deeper. He also knew they would be entering mountains. Uphill, rocky, uneven, mountains. Now, this isn't the best place to take a cart with 600 pounds of metal and wood. In fact, it's downright idiotic.

During lunch, most of us gather in the room of our teacher that games. Z has said teacher for 3rd hour, thus, after 3rd hour, we march in, and ask him if he realizes these weapons will be just about useless. He doesn't seem to be comprehending the weight problem. He also doesn't seem to comprehend that just about every creature you really should worry about, is going to have damage reduction of some kind, that, or there are gonna be a LOT of them.

Being Z though, this attempt at conversation doesn't get far. He blows up, starts yelling about being the only person ever criticized, and storms out of the room.

Just felt like venting that, thanks. ^^;;

As for a solution, I plan letting him buy it all. I also plan on letting most of it rust, the horse to either break a leg or go lame in the mountains if he tries to bring it with, or someone may decide to start their own weapon shop upon finding this wealth unattended if he leaves it somewhere.

That would make a funny story plot, 'young merchant comes to great success after discovering lost cache of weapons', they could even come back later to become the favorite merchant friend of the PCs.

I'd find that quite hilarious.

Anyway, I'll bypass the rant on Z's inability to avoid hypocrisy, and thank you for listening.

Thanks,
-May

PS: Anyone that wishes to suggest evil things, please feel free to do so. >_>

[thepanda]

Try getting the other players to convince him in game. There is always the off chance that they can force him to rethink such an action. Especially since there's always the off chance that the enemy will get ahold of the weapons in a raid or something.

[Dracos]

...

You know the correct answer is: Where the fuck are you going to find a blacksmith with that much stuff on hand?  Unless they are planning to stock an army, that's quite a bit of inventory to have in stock.

Anyhow, you know what I said about this:

"NEWBIE!  NO.  NOT BELONG."

Dracos

[Asrana]

Panda: 'Twas worked on, nobody's crossing fingers over it though, he's notoriously stubborn.

Drac: Bad news, this isn't the newbie.

We're not sure the real newbie realized he'd been payed.

Considering that suggestion, I'll go through the list if he ever brings it up and tick off everything the group wouldn't have.

In all likelihood, this will be met with bitching and moaning. Of course, there isn't much way to avoid that anyway.

[Dracos]

Sorry, anyone, and I mean absofuckinglutely anyone who goes:

"I'll take every piece of equipment from here to there.  Five times."

IS A FUCKING NEWBIE.  Even if he's been playing for twenty years, that's still newbie behaviour.

Dracos