Ooh! I finally have one of these stories! It's a long one, though.
So a few terms back, I seized power in a
bloody coupmild-mannered takeover of our community college gaming club. After the first session. Yeah, the old founder had a lot on her plate and did not seem ready to run (the first meeting had about twelve people in one game, and it was as nightmarish as you'd expect), so she resigned and I took over because nobody else was interested. The thing was, though, she'd already agreed to let another groupmember run her game on the off slot. Apparently, she's trying out an RPG she designed based on some manga or anime series. Cool! What better place to test out an RPG than at a group where most people aren't super attached to existing games, after all?I spent a while wondering whether or not I should link the site she sent us. I think I will, as I can't see the harm. So, here's the site. For those who don't want to look at the site, I'll explain. We were confronted with a messy, unbalanced system too closely linked to D&D but not close-linked enough to make sense. The character sheets were four pages long and full of rulesets that didn't seem to apply. I was, to be frank, worried. And then we played in the first session.
I was playing an intelligent skeleton, which was plenty of fun just on its own (who doesn't like talking skeletons?). The first encounter had us all—individually—being approached by an old man with a quest for us. As soon as we tried to ask him what was up, he teleported us to another world. Uh-oh.
We appear by this town, now in magic land. The thief's player, wanting to be thiefy (and kind of troublesome), tries to rob a store and gets inta-teleported outside town. And now there's a magic wall blocking him from reentering. And anybody who goes out to find him is likewise stuck. Now, he kinda deserved to get put in his place, don't get me wrong, but I feel bad for excluding him from the action. So I try to help him dig a...
As the thief in this campaign, I can also weigh in here, first off, no hate to the person as a person but OH GOD!!! I have never played a more disorganized, confusing, and downright baffling system in all my years of gaming. Okay, some context for my POV:
I decided to play a Kobold thief, apparently kobolds are bug men that can turn invisible in this setting... Umm, ok, sure, why not? I start off with a flintlock pistol, being specialized in firearms,I figured I have to start somewhere (She never let me upgrade guns, like, ever.) So, my character was also a mute, apparently a inherent racial kobold thing, I also decided to make him a kleptomaniac for a fun character flaw, So when we get to the city,I spy a shiny pair of SMGs, I try to steal them, keep in mind, I rolled really well, but nope, can't have a thief around! I get ported out of the city along with a Dragon and pixie PC, we go off and get drunk because anything was more fun than this "adventure", we get to the place where evil zombie lady is, now, I just have written off this game as a loss but come to hang out with the friends I made at the group. Eventually we find 3 macguffin hammers and zombie lady gets the drop on us, I cant fire my pistol except at a minus 13 even though Im point blank, this was for some not described reason, when I asked why, she said "Want me to roll to see if it misfires?" I concede, attempting to stab her, after a few rounds she runs off, next session Im beyond the point of wanting to figure out how to save her and just want this game to be over so we can go back to Pathfinder, so when we defeat the Zombie Sorceress in a space station orbiting Asgard using three magical god-hammers, (Yes that was a thing) I coup de grace her before she can teleport away, I can tell the DM is mad at me, but it wraps up. Oh, and she proceeded to be extremely disruptive at the Pathfinder sessions, asking party members to pay her to put a gem acting as a key into the corresponding slot in a coffin to progress the freaking plot. she hasn't shown up anymore and for that I am thankful, I can forgive the unpolished game, but the DMing style and the disruptive crap in another person's game pissed me off.