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Okay GM, here's the deal:

The GM is supposed to be a referee and your job is to make sure all the players are having fun and getting along and that the game is running smoothly. If the power gamers are disrupting things for everyone else then its an issue and it should be brought up at the table for everyone to discuss. Otherwise you should be willing to compromise and work with this player.

Keep your perspective too - its just a game and its not the end of the world if it doesn't play out how you want it to. You will also have plenty of opportunities to run more games in the future. Many more games if you choose to. This is just a drop in the bucket in the long run and will be a valuable learning experience for you. Look at it that way instead of being fixated on the here and now.

And please, as I have demonstrated above, please, please, please, don't take every little jab or gesture as a personal insult because, chances are, it isn't intended that way. Even if it is, its on the other person and doesn't really matter.

The alternative is that you can quit and deprive yourself or you can act out like I did and make things a lot worse, solving nothing.

Okay, good night everybody.

Just got back from a long walk. Look guys, I apologize for the outburst. I have my own issues and its my responsibility to take care of them.

I just want to say this: people with PTSD tend to be very sensitive and can get triggered to react in extreme ways. This should be taken into account.

The GM who is experiencing this, I would advise him to seek help and get into therapy (I'm going to go back into counseling as I obviously have a lot that still needs to be worked out) because you cannot change the world or other people and you will need to develop coping strategies for when you are triggered.

I really don't think that PFS is a bad place more or less than any other public environment. And its online aspect is prone to even worse tendencies, just like any other public online forum.

I wish everybody the best RP experience and I hope you all do not lose sight of the central objective to have a good time and make friends.

Most of the time people are just acting like imperfect humans and its important to forgive them for their mistakes, just as we would like to be forgiven for our own mistakes and shortcomings.

Again, I apologize for creating an uncomfortable environment on here and I hope people can move past that and learn from it. I am doing my best to as well.

-Best regards

The GM announces that, 'we will be taking breaks every 20 minutes or so to hear a word from our sponsors'.

I mean, did you really believe that there was a corner of life that the epitome of pure evil could not reach? Bwhahahahaha!

--The GM is wearing a George Romero t-shirt.
--The GM asks for a list of the characters' daily and encounter powers.
--You realize that you are the only fetchling among a party that resembles the cast of Jersey Shore.