The Verbal / Visual Examples of Players / Problems in your Games


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I've decided to make a threadshowing what it commonly looks/sounds like for players having problems, or how it is gaming with other players. Sure, I may know a couple, but I'm sure several other people from the community can give equally solid (if not more solid) examples.

I understand that most D&D/Pathfinder gamers are older/mature folks, or even younger players, but I do ask that we keep it clean (that is, safe for work, and/or acceptable to be posted here).

I'll start with a common verbal one: Players arguing over loot.

And a common visual one: Min-Maxers telling people how to play.

Alright Pathfinder community, dazzle me!


Here's one I see from time to time: Why can't I play a tengu? I have a backstory!

I suspect many adventurers run across this: So what if you did all the work, we split the loot evenly.

Here's a video for you: I'm chaotic neutral, it's what my character would do!

Grand Lodge

Simon Legrande wrote:
I suspect many adventurers run across this: So what if you did all the work, we split the loot evenly.

Yeah, that doesn't really work, considering that Occupy's complaint is not that we should split all wealth evenly - it's that people got obscenely rich by not providing anything of value and added insult to injury by having our tax dollars given to them when their corrupt system inevitably imploded in on itself.

If I could provide a more apt - and less politically charged - motif for that instead.

Not really player-specific, but here's one for when you waste half a session on shopping.


EntrerisShadow wrote:
Simon Legrande wrote:
I suspect many adventurers run across this: So what if you did all the work, we split the loot evenly.

Yeah, that doesn't really work, considering that Occupy's complaint is not that we should split all wealth evenly - it's that people got obscenely rich by not providing anything of value and added insult to injury by having our tax dollars given to them when their corrupt system inevitably imploded in on itself.

If I could provide a more apt - and less politically charged - motif for that instead.

Not really player-specific, but here's one for when you waste half a session on shopping.

Huh, should I be coming to you to provide all of my opinions now? I call it the way I see it. According to this a redistribution of wealth is exactly what they were after.

Now, since I know Paizo doesn't really like politics being thrown around on their forums, I will leave it at that. If you don't agree, that's fine but don't harp on it unless you want this thread to be locked. That wouldn't exactly be fair to the OP.


ever experienced that player who seems to believe he's better at telling the story than the DM is, even without knowing the story, and chases all players off with his nuisance?

I experienced him yesterday, if anyone wants... for free? I'll even pay for the postage...


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EntrerisShadow wrote:
Not really player-specific, but here's one for when you waste half a session on shopping.

Waste?! Man, in my games the declaration of Intent to Shop™ immediately puts the game at Defcon 1. APL+3 encounters are frequently less deadly!

EDIT: This about sums up the gravitas of these scenarios.

Grand Lodge

Simon Legrande wrote:
EntrerisShadow wrote:
Simon Legrande wrote:
I suspect many adventurers run across this: So what if you did all the work, we split the loot evenly.

Yeah, that doesn't really work, considering that Occupy's complaint is not that we should split all wealth evenly - it's that people got obscenely rich by not providing anything of value and added insult to injury by having our tax dollars given to them when their corrupt system inevitably imploded in on itself.

If I could provide a more apt - and less politically charged - motif for that instead.

Not really player-specific, but here's one for when you waste half a session on shopping.

Huh, should I be coming to you to provide all of my opinions now? I call it the way I see it. According to this a redistribution of wealth is exactly what they were after.

Now, since I know Paizo doesn't really like politics being thrown around on their forums, I will leave it at that. If you don't agree, that's fine but don't harp on it unless you want this thread to be locked. That wouldn't exactly be fair to the OP.

Fair enough, it would be unfair to get the thread locked over a political debate. I'll save whatever I have to say in response to that link for a more appropriate forum.

However, if you don't want to argue politics, don't use an unrelated post to make a political point. I could find all sorts of excuses to use this thread to make jabs at the Tea Party or conservative Christians, but it would be really disingenuous of me to expect nobody to take exception to it.

Back to the OP:

When you have a Killer GM

When the GM loses the plot during a long-running campaign.

Playing with the guy who takes the game WAAAYYY too seriously


EntrerisShadow wrote:
However, if you don't want to argue politics, don't use an unrelated post to make a political point. I could find all sorts of excuses to use this thread to make jabs at the Tea Party or conservative Christians, but it would be really disingenuous of me to expect nobody to take exception to it.

I wasn't trying to make a political point, I was trying to make a point about how I see the slackers. And IMO, the world would be better off without the two groups you named as well. Being against OWS doesn't make someone an ultra-right conservative.

And speaking of which, here's the poor villager's reason for taking down the BBEG.

Also, The BBEG wasn't expecting a raging barbarian/monk.

Here's another: I'm totally making a gunslinger, and using AAAALLL my grit! (some language in this one.)

And all the mages say Fighter battles take too long.


I approve this thread. And the fight scenes in Troy are some of the best melee battles you're going to see and some of the closest you'll get to what it would have really been instead of hacking at each others' sword for 5 minutes.

(Don't read the vid title - its worth it) The classes that "powergamer"/PFS player teaches who goes apes**t when his DM doesn't go RAW or the player doesn't get his way


What it's like to catch the argumentative rules lawyer making a mistake.

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