Worst PC, DM ever?


Gamer Life General Discussion

1 to 50 of 352 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | next > last >>
Dark Archive

7 people marked this as a favorite.

in lines with my worst game ever.

Worst PC?

Guy always played a thief, always.
Pickpocketed, robbed, left for dead, fellow PCs always. metagamed until his ears bled. Spent the game session reading manuals for that game, or quit often other games.

Always new what combo killed what monster, ALWAYS. if you killed him he played his brother, hell bent on revenge.
Never role played a single time, but always power gamed Every single bloody character. If you played a human champaign, he played a kobold, and no you cannot always blame the dm, if you put your foot down he would weasel around rules, and whine,, and complain. But he played along until mid point, then always sabatoged the group.

Worst Dm?

DMPC (Dm player character) I can live with them, have used them, however that being said. His character could never die, solved everything, was the life of the party, new the best everything. It was a group of four of us. And the three players finally got sick of it and when he went down in combat, well someone might have stepped on his windpipe.

Needless to say he was back to life in the next adventure, we found out he was divinly protected, lucky us.


I had one of those player types in the group I played in. His favorite thing to do was to cast sleep at a monster while we were in melee with it. The monster always saved, we never did.

He had two plans of action.

Plan A: 1. Cast sleep
2. Coupe de grace

Plan B: 1. Cast Sleep
2. Cast Expeditious Retreat
3. Let sleeping party die and run away.

After the 3rd time this happened he was asked to not play with us again.

Dark Archive

see if i was the dm, and he put the party to sleep. i would have had a second nasty in the halls behind him, waiting for the rest of the party to ko.

god i hate twits that ruin it for the rest of us.


2 people marked this as a favorite.

Worst PC:

Female Elven Cleric, played by an aging and extremely creepy man.

Every time the party stopped in a town for any reason the character would immediately go shopping, bathe, and go to the taverns to try and find musicians to sex up... and the player wouldn't just leave it at stating those actions, he'd try and sneak it past me (the DM) that he was about to role-play out those scenes in an overly descriptive way.

...if not for the FLGS and their policy that no person not banned from the store itself be disallowed to join a game played there, he wouldn't have lasted the first session... but as it was he got multiple sessions to "clean up his act" before he finally earned a ban from the store for his pervy, disruptive behavior.

Worst DM:

Guy sets us up for the game - we are supposed to build 5th level characters with our choice of bloodline from Unearthed Arcana, and the campaign will be one heavily focused on politics and the interactions of these noble houses and nations. Specifically mentions that social skills will be important "so that if things get heated and war is declared, negotiation is an option."

Session 1 opens with us all at a party hosted by a noble, like our characters. We are then no-choice, no-save, no-arguing put to sleep via dosed food and beverage. We wake up to find the manor empty, save a crazed woman left to tell us that our gracious host has declared war and is marching her army toward my character's homeland.

The campaign is then nothing but war, and an assassin caught up with us in the night, killed my character and fled - I presume because I was still entertaining the idea that we could talk our way out of this war.

Same guy starts 3 other campaigns before I finally gave up on him - all 3 include arbitrary limitations to PC abilities (1. You can't just go around this outpost full of undead because the plant growth is too thick to travel through. No, you can't cut a path. 2. You can't retry an Open Lock skill check until you have gained a level and increased your rank. No, don't look in the book that proves me wrong. 3. No, you can't roll anything to see if your Devil jailors might be tricked by your ruse and they kill you for trying it.), imprisonment in one way or another, and attempts to reason that it is okay that the encounters are ridiculously high CR for a party of our level because we have extremely high point-buy characters.

I don't care what you think, a 3.5 edition 45 point spread does not enable a party of 5 2nd level character's to go toe-to-toe with 10 CR 3 skeletons, half of which are firing from arrow slits at the top of glass-smooth towers with no doors or half a dozen Bearded Devils (while stripped of all equipment, no less) - both of which are CR 10 encounters.

Dark Archive

1 person marked this as a favorite.

egad....i think i might take the rogue after that last one, wow. brutal.

but we can laugh at it all now right? RIGHT?

cheers for story mate.

Liberty's Edge

Worst Player:

Always played a halfling knife fighter (rogue). Always going for Invisible Blade (3.5).

Early on in one game, the player actually yelled at the party's barbarian for attacking the BBEG, who was in a corner.

"You're blocking my throwing lane!"

Other player:

"Seriously? I just did 24 points of damage to it, while you are doing 1d3 points per round. Seriously?"


1 person marked this as a favorite.

Buddy Girlfriend is playing with us but not really ... she is playing a pixie thief who can turn invisible, she stabs/steals every thing we find flies away and forces us to deal with it. even a red dragon once.

number 2
A orc named "peanutbutter" who wore a dress the pc clearly didn't want to do any serious roleplaying so he would scream "peanutbutter bored" and wander off or kick down the next door regardless of what awful horrors it contained then after 30 seconds he would scream again and wander off.
it was very hard to run a campaign i had to multiple dm 2 parties.

Silver Crusade

1 person marked this as a favorite.

This one is a bit complicated. Let's say we had a DM with a DMPC, which is now a PC, and someone else took the job of DM for our enjoyment. He's doing as well as the previous one sucked, and the new DM is a freakin' pleasure to play with, so you can better understand the dichotomy.

So, Worst PC :
Pretty much any character from "this player".
I mean, it's characters's roleplay varies from "non-existant" to "over the top speaking guy with a hood trying to play kool and totally the best at his job since his parents were killed and he was raised in a monastery where he was the best and everyone loved him but after 15 years he understands the monastic food isn't for him so he leaves and becomes even more powerfulbetter and he doesn't afraid of anything and he's a bit psychopath and dominates people and cut their hands blableuble.".
Once his parents were killed and he was raised by monks then passed ten years into a monastery = Level 10 kukri fighter.
Once he was the king of thieves, raised by assassins who killed his parents = Level 8 THF & bow fighter.

The player himself shows at the table once per month, and plays with his phone all session or distracts other players without participating in any way. He has a great selective memory, and often uses archetypes and buys equipment based on what interpretation and memory gives him an advantage, forcing me to double check any character he comes with. And I always have tons of things to change. Also, he uses the d20pfsrd rules, which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't only understood half of it considering his english level - the advantageous half, for sure.
His first character for this campaign at level 1 was a 3.5 monk with some pathfinder powers, boosted stats, and offense like a level 4 character. Awkward discussion ensued.
His second character would be a wizard or druid, because I once explained why they were "better" than other classes in Pathfinder straight core. He heavily complained because he couldn't take them, calling the DM and game "shit", while it was clearly said and explained before the very first session why Wiz/Druids were unplayable classes in the actual campaign. So he rolled a campaign sorcerer, which took nonlethal damage for each spell cast but got a bonus to the DC of his spells. Not a bad houserule for a spellcaster, some kind of wild-magic user weakening by casting powerful spells. When the DM put some witch-hunter archers and made them prepare an attack against any spellcaster after some sessions where he never took even one hit, he whined, raged, and soon choose another character.
At first he used point buy with 7/7/7 cheese. When we told him it would not be accepted for next character (even our barbarian has 14 Charisma and don't even use intimidation), he did a 8/7/7. Then he whined when his fighter with +2 will at level 11 got dominated.

Tl;dr =
Player :
Cheating, whining, name-calling, threatening to "finish this outside", never participating, distracting other players, giving headaches.
PCs :
Munchkinized, bland-as-hell, never built like their background would at least suggest, puts other characters at risk ; or at best, don't exist.

Worst DM :
Well, "this player", a long, long time ago.
Thanks to him we had :
- The invincible DMPC (a monk with better kill-KO ratio than the barbarian, seemingly untouchable and with strangely high stats ?)
- The "you can't have shiny things", where at level 5 you still had no Full Plate for your fighter when the monk already had everything he needed.
- The "play this book" sessions.
- The NPC compensation complex. I explain : each, and every powerful NPC we ever met, dominated us once way or another. Slapping the back of our heads, -litteraly- pissing on us, cutting fingers... with a seemingly abnormal concentration of all of this on one player of our group, which was a closer friend with another player the DM took jealousy in. Even if the NPC had probably no reason to ever do this, he did. "Slapping someone on the back of the head and putting it on knees" became a meme for us.
At which point we finally agreed between us to see in this attitude some kind of expression from a repressed inferiority complex we knew the guy probably suffered, since he always sticked to someone else and switched people or personality everytime he could feel superior to someone, or at least equal to a new comportemental model. I know it's armchair psychology right now, but probably not too far from reality if you allow me the litote.
- Railroad campaign. Not as much as the "play this book" sessions, but don't bother trying something that isn't on the DM's page, it will fail horribly.

Hilarious time of the year :
"This player" threatens to leave and keep the 3.5 books and minis because we made clear he was becoming annoying for everyone.
On the table :
- two bottles of cola, some cookies
- Paizo battle-mat with our minis and pen to write on it
- my huge collector, simili-cuir edition of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook
- portable computer opened on d20psfrd
- 5 players not saying anything and trying not to laugh, but all thinking about the exact same answer at the same time.


15 people marked this as a favorite.

Worst player ever (recent, four months ago):

Introduced by one of my regulars, the player had PFRPG knowledge and didn't want to go the PFS route. Always played a ranged character and always insisted on an elf (even after I said they didn't exist in my games). No big deal, we'll do Golarion campaigns for a while.

I learned quickly that the player only liked hack-n-slash sessions and seemed to prefer 10x10 rooms connected with a small corridor to another 10x10 room. Play-style clash, I can adapt. Later I discovered that he hated the idea of knowledge checks made to identify creatures he was fighting. (Sigh) He doesn't like actual roleplay then...maybe he'll eventually find a group he likes. I stopped asking him for knowledge checks (the other players still made their's with no complaints whatsoever).

I decided to reskin Arkham Asylum for Golarion and start the players out inside one of the buildings when a massive prison break occurs.

I was proud of the design and how quickly I got it together; this time I even made maps. Knowing this guy would play a ranged character I included many areas that he could tactically use to his advantage in order to enjoy the battles a little more. Within the buildings it tended to follow the monsters-in-every-identical-dungeon-room school of thought, so there was plenty for a player like him to enjoy.

The intro went off without a hitch and the (regular) players really liked the campaign. Even the problem child seemed to be having fun. That changed quickly...

Me - (describes a diseased prisoner shuffling down a hallway)
RegularPlayer_1 - My character makes a Knowledge check to see if we'll be fighting undead now.
ProblemPlayer - OMFG! IT'S A F*#+IN' CONVICT, JUST ATTACK! (proceeds to attack)
All_of_us - (looks at ProblemPlayer with mild annoyance, returns to game)
RegularPlayer_2 - He looks sick, as if he's infected with something. (makes Heal check, succeeds)
Me - You recognize the effects and discern that the prisoner was suffering from languas azurai, commonly known as the "blue shambles". (Describes disease, which was relevant to the campaign)
ProblemPlayer - (texting, continues until the next encounter)
(session continues, ProblemPlayer only gets off phone long enough for combat)
RegularPlayer_2 - This one (following my description of a prisoner corpse) looks like he's suffered from the disease the longest. 'Rolling a heal check to confirm--
ProblemPlayer - (was previously looting dead, unarmed prisoners for possible magic items) Seriously?! We cleared the place, let's hit the next instance!
RegularPlayer_2 - (still in character) We need to find out where the disease started from. We don't know how long we'll be stuck here or how many prisoners were infected. So making a heal check--
ProblemPlayer - (actually grabs d20 from player) NO! We're done here!
RegularPlayer_2 - (gets pissed starts to yell something)
Me - HEY! Everybody (to the regulars) give us a minute.
(they step out)
Me - 'The hell's going on, I thought you were having fun this session.
ProblemPlayer - All this stupid lore shit, dude. Nobody cares about that it's taking up too much time. (begins texting while speaking to me)
Me - (trying to be patient) If the prisoners are diseased, you guys run the risk of being infected.
ProblemPlayer - (continues texting) 'Healer's got spells, we good.
Me - Your character doesn't know that. Besides, you can't grab another player's dice and tell them not to make a check -- not cool at all.
ProblemPlayer - (still texting) I know that, 'cause I see the sheet and she still got spells.
Me - What I'm saying is that--
ProblemPlayer - (interrupting while texting) Whatever b&$+%, 'got an hour left, let's just get back to the game.
Me - (considers words, bites tongue, reconsiders words) Yeah, you're done. Get your stuff and get out.
ProblemPlayer - (stops texting) 'F~~* you say?
Me - (calls RegularPlayer_2 for support, her apartment)
RegularPlayer_2 - You heard him. Surprised he's let you stay so long, 'been an ass all day.
(escalates until RegularPlayer_2 threatens to call cops)

So yeah, that was the worst so far.

Dark Archive

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.


Nos wrote:

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Hats off from me also, congratulations on being able to stay patient all the time.

By the way did it really escalated to calling the cops? Are there such persons?

Shadow Lodge

Worst player: I was running an Earthdawn game where I didn't really track coins. The house rule was that you earned a reasonable amount of wealth and spent some of it on costs of living. If you thought you needed to add an item to your character sheet, just tell me and write it down. You've got the cash to cover it. (And for the non-Earthdawn players out there, there wasn't really anything to spend it on anyway. Magic items are found or made through epic events, never by an artificer.)

Fast forward to an encounter with some naga with invisibility powers. Dude pulls out a bag of flour. I said, 'what are you a baker now - what are you doing with a bag of flour?' He insisted that he told me earlier that he was picking one up in town. He did not. In fact, if he had, I would have declared it drenched when they swam across the river. He also had an overpowering personality, so in order to stop him from devolving the entire game session into a debate, I had to let it slide.

BAG OF F*ING FLOUR!!!

Worst DM: I was invited once to play in an ongoing campaign with an old, old, old school DM. I was required to make a first level character, and I honestly don't even remember what it was. I arrived at the table to play alongside several tenth level PCs, including a 'half-elf' whose other half was 'giant'. I died immediately. I re-rolled, thinking it was my initiation, I died again. Perhaps I wasn't welcome? :D


2 people marked this as a favorite.

Holy S***, I have never had any players as bad as any of the above, but had one or two were close though.


Nos wrote:

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Same here, I'm 6'1 at around 270, so having this little cunt texting during noncombat sections then complain that the group was wasting time told me that I'd better get rid of him soon. The last thing anyone needs is an assault charge over a table-top rpg.

MMO vernacular pisses me off, but the good players eventually get into character and drop the terms while at the table.

Anyway we scrapped the campaign, I refitted the maps and resources for another, and the new campaign was up and running in about fifteen minutes (new characters as well).


2 people marked this as a favorite.

I was the worst dm i know i would just make stuff on the spot, see stuff while going about my daily business and think that would be a cool thing to put in my dnd game. no cr, at all no exp just level up, when i tell you
never tpk and always bow to pressure of pc's who didn't like my ruling
after dming pathfinder for 6months i realize i had a lot to learn and got better.

if i thought the way water drained in my sink would make a cool trap i put it in. i was the worst.

Dark Archive

And Azure you want to share? dont hold back?

half elf half giant? really?
what was it darksun? and the old school gms can be the worst.

played a game with an x teacher of mine, wrote some articles for dragon, or dungeon back in the day, so his other x teacher friend ran and wrote their own campaign.

i swear they were around when the game was first invented.
group shows up to play.
we all make our characters, one of his young friends shows up to play, this guy was not well liked at our school, small town pretty much one school. this wont be good.

he gets to roll 5 d 6, take away the lowest 1. ummm...fine let it slide.
played his module for 2 sessions, around 6 hours. managed to fight a pack, flock??? of stirges. wiped out 90% of the party cept fav pc 1 and random girl in our group.

let it slide. second module. 3 weeks of play, twice a week. hunting a mysterious killer. fought a single mummy at the end, killed everyone but girl and fav pc.

I rage quit, never saved my game.


3 people marked this as a favorite.
Necromancer wrote:
Nos wrote:

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Same here, I'm 6'1 at around 270, so having this little c$$& texting during noncombat sections then complain that the group was wasting time told me that I'd better get rid of him soon. The last thing anyone needs is an assault charge over a table-top rpg.

same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.

the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.


Can anyone give an example of those "old school DMs"? i have never played with one and only found scarce info here on the boards.

Or i don't want to know?


Lobolusk wrote:
Necromancer wrote:
Nos wrote:

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Same here, I'm 6'1 at around 270, so having this little c$$& texting during noncombat sections then complain that the group was wasting time told me that I'd better get rid of him soon. The last thing anyone needs is an assault charge over a table-top rpg.

same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.

the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.

WHAT??????????

please tell us the story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pretty please with sugar on top!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 people marked this as a favorite.
Lobolusk wrote:

same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.

the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.

Man, that person has problems, and is quite the Major A**-****.

*"And Who is he?"
****
*"His name is Major Philips James A**-****."
--Ah Spaceballs

Dark Archive

loblousk.

Brilliant, thanks for being honest. I am an okay DM, when i have a pathfinder or adventure mod to follow, i can be honest. I am not good at making my own. very much like you. I am happy with my preset adventures, i would prefer never to dm if i didnt have to, but since i have the best dm ever, i try to give him time to play. sometimes it sucks being behind the board.

YES you have to tell the president story, for real? really really real?

and we had something less dramatic.

we used to roleplay on a BBS (remember those?)
needless to say some hacking went down, and the RCMP (Up here in canada) came over and cut the phone lines on the property lol.

damn never did finish that mod.
I try to hard to make the adventure perfect for all my players.

and i am the worst, give out WAY to much treasure.

sigh.

OLD skool DM?
well some thoughts, or should this be a seperate thread?

1.New characters are 1st level. No matter what level you die.
2.There is NEVER a cap on level advancement (see old dragon magazine issues and some 330 odd level wizard that blew up greyhawk, in a letter to the editor, resulting in several issue long snail mail arguments in the letters section of dragon).
3.Core race ONLY.
4.Options are just that, they are options for other groups.
5.YOU will speak as if you were in character.


leo1925 wrote:
Nos wrote:

Necromancer! Wow hats of dude.

I am a big guy, i would have been over the table and knocked some sense into him..

one thing.
did he actually say "next instance"??
i thought that kind of stuff only happend in warhammer games.

Lol i am sorry to hear that.

Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Hats off from me also, congratulations on being able to stay patient all the time.

By the way did it really escalated to calling the cops? Are there such persons?

Well the argument didn't improve at all after the other players got into it. Regular1 (introduced the fool, classmates apparently) and Regular3 bounced back into the room looking as if they wished they'd brought popcorn. Regular2 is all about hospitality, but demands reasonable (but not necessarily sane) behavior in her apartment. I slowly lost my patience, argued back, and said something to make him lose (what was left of) his cool.

He began mouthing off in ways that would make Chris Rock violent, I gave up started thinking about how to salvage the day and Regular2 got verbally hostile. Meanwhile Regular1 and Regular3 entertained themselves by mimicking the idiot's statements (or rather, clusters of sounds) and including them into popular tunes and movie lines.

The moron couldn't handle it and took a step toward Regular2. In turn, she flipped and entered 911, held up the phone, and threatened. Regular1 got the fool to calm down and helped him gather his papers and leave.


10 people marked this as a favorite.

I had put the white house number i got out of the phone book on my cellphone, thinking it was the white house info or tours line, little did i know it was the actual switch board,

I had been watching the unit, and there is a scene where the big guy say here talk to my boss and on his cell phone it says "white house can i help you"

so i had that on my phone, and the peanutbutter player we will call him derik was my roomate at the time. and we were involved in a prank war called angry but proud.

the whole idea was to do something so outrageous you didn't know as the victim of the prank whether to punch them in the face or salute! because you were so angry but proud

the prank war had gone on for a while, i had sent his personnel info on myspace saying he had cancer and any body could call him day or night, he had taken out a gay personal ad for my on yahoo singles (despite the fact that I was doing street preaching down town)

we were playing a mean game of dnd when he started to act up and i asked him so stop and wait for the party, he said "you dont have the authority"

i figured this was my moment so i flipped my phone open hit speed dial 2 and said here talk to my boss ...... he took the phone and promptly threatened the presidents life. I was shocked and stunned he had finally crossed the line.

the next day the secret service showed up at my work, and interrogated me, and i had to explain what i was doing and why and i then explained to them it was my roommates fault and pointed them to derrik. one of the finer moments of my life was being able to walk into our apartment see him sitting at the table eating cereal. and i got to loudly announce "derik these are the secret service they want to talk to you" in the end
we were cleared he got a super warning and was told they would ruin him academically if he ever stepped out of line again. he was a student teacher at our local college.

EDIT: he now does stand up comedy/poetry readings in new york city and has a whole bit about the situation. which is profanity filled one sided but hilarious but long. the link can be found here


3 people marked this as a favorite.
leo1925 wrote:
By the way did it really escalated to calling the cops? Are there such persons?

There absolutely are such people.

I was once in a game that ended with us all (the players, not characters) leaving before the cops showed up to where we were playing because the neighbors had called the police.

The game was being played in a garage (we set up some couches and tables to make it more like a lounge because we spent so much time with too many people over for any actual room in the house) and a player got a bit sour because the DM at the time didn't let him play out a a scene... because the DM noticed that all the other players got a bit of a squeamish look when the problem player attempted to initiate the scene with "Alright, so... I go up to the barmaid and convince her to come out into the alley with me."

The DM's attempt to just move on with the game irritated the player, which made him more obstinate about it... he moved on though. At least that's how it seemed until we met with a female NPC that was offering us a job, when he started demanding in-character that she pay him up front for the job with sexual favors.

The situation exploded, the problem player was trying to get us all to RP out the scene with his character raping our prospective employer and we were all trying to convince him to leave - he wouldn't budge and started yelling louder and louder about what his character was going to do (in first person speech, I should add) and how none of us could stop it because he wasn't leaving until we let it happen... and then we all made the biggest gaming mistake of our collective lives; We said "Fine... let's do this," and started playing out the scene.

His character went to grab her, our characters went to stop him - as you would expect with 3 on 1 PVP his character died. That's when the guy proves to us that all of the crazy he had shown us by that point had only been the tip of the iceberg and he literally stood up and flipped the table, then started trashing the garage and screaming at us.

The DM and host was freaked out so bad he couldn't even think of what to do, and the other players beside myself had left the garage and gone out to the end of the driveway to keep distance between them and the raging psycho-gamer - the neighbor that had called the cops called them over to his yard across the street and told them the cops should be there soon, which I wish I had heard before my anger at the whole situation got the best of me... I think the guy had thrown a chair in such a way that it bounced into my bum knee, I can't really remember because it was years ago and I went off the rails myself.

The cops hauled that guy off after I hit him so hard in the guts that he puked, and the rest of us had gone down the street to another player's house so I could toss my jeans in the wash.

There are people in the world that are mentally unstable - sometimes they end up at a game table... luckily we never saw that guy again.


President story:
WOW just WOW

i don't have words to write.....

WOW

WOW again....

..............................................

I am glad that neither of you get into real trouble though.

Silver Crusade

Lobolusk wrote:
Insanity.

This is the kind of story which gives teen movie scenarii or front page titles about a body found in a river.


Lobolusk wrote:
President Story

Out of completely idle curiosity, who was the President at the time?


BigJohn42 wrote:
Lobolusk wrote:
President Story
Out of completely idle curiosity, who was the President at the time?

I bet it was Bill Clinton.


2 people marked this as a favorite.
leo1925 wrote:
BigJohn42 wrote:
Lobolusk wrote:
President Story
Out of completely idle curiosity, who was the President at the time?
I bet it was Bill Clinton.

bush w george


Worst Player ever: Girlfriends, in general, (some exceptions), are pretty bad players. Not that I'm sexist, far of it, some of my games had more female PC than male. But playing with a young couple is terrible.

I have one in mind in particular, that was playing just to keep an eyes on her boyfriend, you know, this kind of sticky over-oppresive girlfriend.

She wasn't in the game at all, no roleplay, no play. We always had to tell her what to do, and had absolutely no initiative.

She never did something really wrong (such as calling white house lol, awesome story :P), but she was a pain for too much time, and there was no way to kick her out without the guy, who was actually a good player when he was not too much disturbed.

Also in close 2nd, I know a player I played with for a while, who was just terribly funny as a player. Roleplay totally awesome, and I rarely laugh that hard with another player. But he was a total PAIN for any DM. Mechanical maniac, bringing things from unbalanced-fan-made, overly arguing with the DM on every single rule, and just really, really unbalanced characters. He was fun in roleplay time, but you can't have challenge and fun with someone arguing with the DM for half the game session.

Worst DM: I don't think I had a very bad DM, but from those I had, I can rate one as "worst". Was not a bad DM in overall, in fact she, cause it's a girl, had some cool ideas, prepared game and nice encounter.

The only problem is that she had absolutely no confidence and can't get a stop point in any argument, or any strange or controversal game mechanics. The "DM is always right" thing is completely inexistant, and since we had an arguing PC around the table, we often had to help her out to find a solution.

And since it was often unbalanced because she couldn't handle this out, she often do some "sudden-boost" to her NPC to make the encounter challenging. We all do that, but it's really, really too obvious.

Dark Archive

1 person marked this as a favorite.

lobulusk Cheers. One of the best stories i have have ever heard, i think that will be brought up at my next gaming group.

the best we evrer had was a month long round of nut sack, you probably know how that went. it was either crit or 1 but either way wham, and then usually throw up...

as for deranged players.

a certain franchise gaming shop, where minature battles take place, this was second hand. short guy in cowboy hat, we will call him "the hat" annoying teen know it all.

Teen mouths off constantly though out game, hat tells him to "chill"

they get in each others faces.
teen flips hat off the head of "the hat"

i believe several gamers and two employeess had to pull him off the beaten and bloody teen.

On another note i saw a fist in the face at a game table, member was army on leave, friend of the group. New player had some very commie pinko comments about new player and the army, ya poltics mixes well with games.

a flipped table and fist to the face, several lost teeth later i was on the floor laughing at the whole thing, the other group had fled in terror, most gamers are not known for their courage under fire, and the army guy hopped a fence and ran off down the street, that was perhaps the funniest part of the whole situation.


Nos wrote:

And Azure you want to share? dont hold back?

...

Ok I'll share

first one...
when she plays she hardly does anything herself, even with making the character and leveling she requires help, and does not pay attention or act on her own most of the time.

and she would try to play powerful races, but after two "No, you can't"s, she goes for what is available.

she wants to play, but does not bother learning all the rules.

In one game she was playing a Draconic Human (3.5 and I was a player as well, not DM), she was captured and put in a barrel that had gun powder residue, she set it off along with some nearby gun powder barrels and had to make a new character (we were Average party level of 2).

*Note
I later adopted this DM's appearance rules (miss 3 session without a word and the character dies (harsh yes, but works)) and his randomization method for NPCs and certain parts of PCs, but kept it to my NPCs and my own PC generation. Which has generated some interesting Characters.

Second one...
Me DMing 3.5 custom campaign.

Another DnD group was playing next to mine and Me and the other DM talked a bit and some of his players decided to have a character transfer (it was the end of the other DM's campaign and it ended with a teleport). One characters was a half-dragon (note my party was at around 5th level at the time), and he did role play his character, but when I started a new one, same world different area, and asked for back story, he said "Me and 'cant remember name', left our home town." Note I did tell them if it was that vague I could fill it how ever I wished and he said "That's fine." A few sessions later I introduce his sister, and he got upset saying "I have no sister." I replied, "I told you I would fill it in, if it was that vague." Needless to say I had to pull the plug on that hook. And to top it off, he was as the Game mastery guide put it "Antagonist" player type, wanting an evil aligned (which I forbid) or more powerful character than the rest. To top it of was rude to one of the new players that came later, and then he and the other, later dropped out, without a word.

As for DM's none of mine were that bad, each had flaws, but nothing major, unless you count breaking certain mechanics to fit what you (as DM) want.
Note we have made fun of him for his "Raw magic" and some mechanic breaking things.


1 person marked this as a favorite.

Worst Player- We have a good friend who's gamed with us since the beginning. Great guy who actually role plays his character. The problem is its always the same character regardless of genre or game. He always one of two goals. 1)create a big robot or 2) become a big robot. We have always have a bet on how many sessions will take place before he creates a "Big Gay Robot". He loves to power game and sees ROBOTS as the elite. Other than that, he's not a bad guy. You can always count on him to damage things, however strategy is right out the window.

Worst DM- Had a module runner. The guy would NOT vary from the module. It was okay the first few times, but once we realized our characters were not allowed to do anything that wasn't "in black and white ink". It started to be less fun. Once we realized we may have missed a key piece of equipment on a dead NPC and tried to back track. It went something like this.

Player 1: Hey, I bet the old man might have the key to the basement.
Me: Yeah, lets go grab it. (out of character) Hey we are gonna go back to the lobby.
DM: Alright you enter the next room after prying the door open. The ruckus has alerted the residents of the room.
Me: No dude, back the way we came, not the next room, BACK.
Player one: Yeah, back so we can get the key and see if there's a map of the plaza.
DM: The angry residents appear to be changing infront of your eyes.
Me: Not if I have left the area...to get the key.
DM: Roll iniative, the werewolves are attacking.
Me: WTF?

Once we realized that how things went. We would purposely try to derail games. I once played a Psychic warrior with the feat that allows you to run on walls. I would always run to the second story, (or third if I could make it.) Then let down a rope and move from there. We all had mechanisms to make him flip through the book.

Also he had this really REALLY annoying habit of fudging roles. Not like, I do. When I DM, I tend to have new players so I soften the blows on them. No he would always look us in the eye, and never look down at the dice. "Natural twenty." Every GD time. Really. Makes it hard to overcome adversity. We had fun anyway.


11 people marked this as a favorite.

we also had a thing we would do called "coconut" if one of us yelled coconut we would all attack the same time, we never planned it it was just the "situation is deteriorating" and combat is beginning kinda of thing.

the bbeg: give me your gold or i will make you my slaves
pc1: okay let me get my purs......coconut!!!
combat and mellee ensues

this also began to be used in inappropriate ways

shopkeep: i cant lower the price on this sword any more i am sorry
pc1: okay i understand let me get my purs........coconut!!!!!

and of course

city guard: surrender your shop keep murdering friend and get out of town by sunset

pc2,3,4: okay that sounds fair he is in this alley right here.....coconut!!!!

Contributor

Moved thread.


1 person marked this as a favorite.
Lobolusk wrote:

we also had a thing we would do called "coconut" if one of us yelled coconut we would all attack the same time, we never planned it it was just the "situation is deteriorating" and combat is beginning kinda of thing.

the bbeg: give me your gold or i will make you my slaves
pc1: okay let me get my purs......coconut!!!
combat and mellee ensues

this also began to be used in inappropriate ways

shopkeep: i cant lower the price on this sword any more i am sorry
pc1: okay i understand let me get my purs........coconut!!!!!

and of course

city guard: surrender your shop keep murdering friend and get out of town by sunset

pc2,3,4: okay that sounds fair he is in this alley right here.....coconut!!!!

Wow, that Coco for coconuts

Shadow Lodge

I never had an actual fist fight, but I did once see a d20 chip a tooth.

Shadow Lodge

leo1925 wrote:

Can anyone give an example of those "old school DMs"? i have never played with one and only found scarce info here on the boards.

Or i don't want to know?

Are you familiar with the old module Tomb of Horrors? If feel it sets the tone for the 'old school' game rather well.

RPGs used to be different. There was no semblance of players having the right to fairness. What the DM said, happened. Period. If you didn't like it, you didn't get to play. There were no internet forums to have debates, get clarifications, etc. There was only one publisher of the material (that you had ever heard of), and it actively supported doing whatever was necessary to run the game.

This is a video review of the old 1st ed AD&D guide. It might help set the tone for you as well. For example, players weren't even allowed to read it.


Lobolusk wrote:
Epic dare story

+50


5 people marked this as a favorite.

Worst DM:

All I wanted to do was play a female elf cleric. Sure Im creepy and old, but hey, this is fantasy.

So I wanted to go into this town, bathe, go shopping, and maybe get some action with the local bard/barmaid/goblin/whoever. Since I'm a hard-core role-player I decided that the dice weren't good enough and had to role-play it out in detail with the DM. The non-combat aspects of game are JUST as important as the combat parts IMO, so who wouldn't want to role-play out a hot scene with will saves and diplomacy checks with me? Is using Charm Person considered a not-nice-word-that-starts-with-R? Anyways.

They asked me to leave! What a horrible DM!

*If this completely went over your head you need to re-read this thread*

No, seriously, the worst DM is the one who kicked me out of a game for playing a female elf cleric who wanted to sex0r up everything.

...... ;)

Im sorry, but that worst-player-ever just had to be brought up again.


SCSi wrote:
stuff

You are my new internet best friend, thought you should know.


Nos wrote:


Bloody hell i miss having a big group of players.

Yeah, me too.

We're down to 3 people in our Saturday game. That includes me as the GM. Sucks.

But we still have fun, so it's okay.


Lobolusk wrote:

I was the worst dm i know i would just make stuff on the spot, see stuff while going about my daily business and think that would be a cool thing to put in my dnd game. no cr, at all no exp just level up, when i tell you

never tpk and always bow to pressure of pc's who didn't like my ruling
after dming pathfinder for 6months i realize i had a lot to learn and got better.

if i thought the way water drained in my sink would make a cool trap i put it in. i was the worst.

Doesn't sound too bad. Take inspiration when you see it. As long as the result was something fun and challenging, it's a success. The challenging isn't an absolute requirement.

XP-less games? I'm doing the same. No tracking of XP, we'll level at the right time.

Bowing under pressure - yeah, that can be bad, especially if you always do it. But that's only really a problem if you have unreasonable and overbearing players. Otherwise it can be okay. Still something you could benefit from working on (not just for RPGs), but the world won't end.

Being squeamish about player deaths is also not necessarily a bad thing. Just don't overdo it. Sometimes the players need a wake-up call. And sometimes that needs to be delivered in the form of a wake.

My rule of thumb is that when I screw something up as GM, like when it turns out that they have a lot more problems with a critter than previously thought, or that escape is harder than assumed, or the dice are just bastards to the players, I'll fudge to a certain degree. Not completely, characters can still die from that stuff, but I'll adjust the flow of the game (of course, I also adjust it in the other direction on occasion, when some poor monster can't get a break with me rolling so bad and they tearing it to shreds when I thought it would be more of a challenge. And, again, I won't overdo this, either)

But when people are being really dumb, I'll let the bodies hit the floor. I always warn them when they're about to do some really bad stuff, but usually, that will just be a single warning.

After that they're in for it to the ears.


2 people marked this as a favorite.
Lobolusk wrote:


same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.
the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.

What.


KaeYoss wrote:
Lobolusk wrote:


same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.
the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.
What.

I dont know whats worse. Someone used your cell phone to threaten the president, or they played a character called 'peanutbutter'.


5 people marked this as a favorite.
leo1925 wrote:
Can anyone give an example of those "old school DMs"?

They play the game like it "is supposed to be played". They have played this game since the very first version, which they bought off the creators themselves when there wasn't even a company selling that stuff. They were there, man! ;-)

Some things you can expect in an old-school DM's game:

  • You make characters by rolling 3d6 in order (no, you don't get to arrange the stats as needed for what you think you'd like to play)
  • Racial profiling is a holy necessity. Halflings aren't paladins, dwarves aren't wizards, elves aren't bards. Because that's how it is, boy!
  • Back in the day everything was better
  • I remember when I had to colour in my own dice.
  • You need to keep exact track of everything: Basic gear, 1/10coppers, arrows, rations, use left out of a piece of chalk
  • Everything that can be rolled about a character will be rolled. I don't care if you fancy yourself as tall dark and beautiful, the dice will see about that.
  • Traps are of the "one error and you're dead" variety
  • If you die, your new character will start at level 1
  • Magic items aren't bought or sold. What is this, Walmart? We didn't have this kind of stuff when we were young, we took what we got and were happy about it!
  • We had to walk to the game, it was 10 miles, up-hill both ways, and there was always snow.

    Some of these might be exaggerated for comical effect, but not many, and then only a bit.


  • 2 people marked this as a favorite.
    Lobolusk wrote:

    coconut!!!!

    Real life

    Cashier: "Sorry we're out of big macs, would you like a McChicken instead?"
    Lobolusk: "Sure, that's alrCOCONUT!"


    SCSi wrote:
    KaeYoss wrote:
    Lobolusk wrote:


    same character who played peanutbutter also used my cell phone to threaten the president of the united states while gaming.
    the next day the secret service showed up at my work. long story if you guys want to hear it.
    What.
    I dont know whats worse. Someone used your cell phone to threaten the president, or they played a character called 'peanutbutter'.

    I know! Makes you afraid to ask about the name. I watched Road Trip.


    to be fair I was just culpable as "derik" for the whole secret service he called my bluff with the phone.
    the guy who was peanutbutter is and will always be special to the max! but it was a good memory I posted a while back a link to his video you should check it out


    2 people marked this as a favorite.

    I remember a really horrible player, or rather a group of horrible players.

    Us! What we (in one instant I more than anyone) did to our GM is considered torture in most countries.

    Scenario: Stargate game (using d20 Modern rules). It's about this guy who abuses his worm (yes, that's what the GM said about this guy in-game, and of course the table was in tears over this.) becomes really powerful, wants to declare war on the universe, blablabla.

    So we finally find out its him (all the other alien overlords we fought before were just his patsies) and find out where he is, and manage to get to him shortly before he can undergo the transformation that would give him enough power to declare war on the universe and probably win it.

    We enter, he gives us the standard speech: "I have no quarrel with you, go away, I don't give an airborne coitus about your silly little planet, this war against the system lords should take some time and it will probably be centuries before I even remember your homeworld."

    So we go.

    Just like that. The GM probably spent hours creating that BBEG. We took his advice and went!

    Of course, his plan failed and the aliens destroyed earth a couple of years later, but that was totally not because we made him waste hours and hours of BBEG creation time. ;-)

    But we were better in the next campaign.

    This time we bypassed the whole damn final dungeon!

    That was a Forgotten Realms game, and the Thayan minister of conjuration (I forget how they called their leaders, but they had leaders for every school) kidnapped one of our allies (a former PC of mine I retired a while earlier).

    We get in through a secret entrance, meet moderate resistance, go straight into his prison wing (which was right next to the secret entrance) and want to get out again.

    We go round a corner, there's this guy who waves at us grinning and pulls a lever. The whole tunnel collapses.

    He starts to taunt us. "Haha, you're in our master's trap. That's 40 feet worth of collapsed tunnel, it would take years to get that all aside. And teleportation magic only works in the boss's conjuration room. Guess you have to go through the whole complex, unless you surrender right now.

    Me: "40 feet?"
    GM: "Yeah, you remember that there was a bend a bit further down, and that the whole ceiling up to that bend came down. About 40 feet."
    Me: "I see. I manifest disintegrate 4 times, that should take care of it. If not, I have lots of power points left if that's not enough.
    GM: "......... YOU BASTARDS DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!"
    Players. ":D"

    We offered to go back and beat up the bad guy after we brought our old ally (who was in bad shape, and by now several levels below us) to safety, but he wouldn't hear of it.

    We ended up roleplaying our celebrations in a tavern instead.

    The elf in our group was the last in line of some really important bloodline who keeps some other elves' home demi-plane safe, so it was generally deemed positive that he'd marry at one point so the line wouldn't die out.

    The players (minus my psion and said elf) thought that the guy was too much of a nerd to find a wife, so they'd "help" him. And by help, I mean, of course, get that cute elven priestess from the low-level party that was in the tavern with us and, how can I say that, rape them with each other.

    They stopped trying to do that when my psion (who, at 5000, was decidedly too old for this nonsense) threw some stuff at them with his mind and told them in his usual, totally reasonable and calm tone that being gross is just not done.

    1 to 50 of 352 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | next > last >>
    Community / Forums / Gamer Life / General Discussion / Worst PC, DM ever? All Messageboards

    Want to post a reply? Sign in.