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I am only posting cause the guy above me has the best name ever!!!!

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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.

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OLD skool DM?
started this in another forum, thought it might be a blast to post it and hear what others think and believe.

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.

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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.

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what makes me sad is if we could take all the people who post in the bad experience thread, we could make a damn good group.

sigh.
if only our game was made of people who enjoyed social interaction, role playing, and enjoying another humans company, with out having to "win".

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Hmm.

Interesting arguments, however:

1.Mounted SUCKS.
2.Cavalier is mounted, see point 1.
3.New cavalier stuff is all still mounted, See point 1.
4. No options not to be mounted, just different versions of being mounted, see point 1.
5.Its great, can change the mount, can change what to do mounted, can even change everythign but the mounted options, still see point 1.

Point 1. Mounted sucks.
Unless you fix the fact that quite a bit of the cavalier cannot be used, not used effectivly, or used because they forced the game into a situation to be fair, otherwise you cannot use your character effectivly, then it still sucks.

Okay a rogue does not rely on backstab, but tell the people playing the rogue oh by the way, you can only use the back stab ability 1 out of 6 times, only in a dark room with four walls, of x dimension, otherwise you can never use it?

or you can turn undead, but you can only turn undead outside during the day.

Or a paladin can smite. But only in a wide open field, during the night.

Sure these abilities are not the most important class features, and there are other powers, but it sucks when a big power can only used sort of, some of the time, if the party and dm want to make an effort to work it into the game.

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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.

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Thief out front. walks into the room to search for traps, OOPS theres monsters.

Roll Init.
go first.
run behind the fighter.

live to loot another day.
Plus not all feats are abot roll playing, some make sense for role playing.

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I have had great DM's (in fact the one i have now is brilliant, no matter what little things come up, on the whole he is the best dm i have ever had.) I have Dm'd great Pc's, same goes my group, no matter how small, is pretty much the best group i have had. Makes an effort.

After reading others horror stories i decided to share my own, would love to hear other peoples.

So the worst game i was ever in, i was a PC.

We got together at a local store, the owner runs some games. Well i thought this might be fun, you know he is a verteran player, there would be about six people and that sounded like a blast.

Well...lets start.
I arrive early to make my character. (now i want to point out that this is pathfinder, and point buy, which is pretty idoit proof, no "lucky" die rolls.).

Me:Hey i am ready to make my character.
O(owner): i made it for you, here is halfling rogue.
Me: Oh.

Now again i am not an ass, but i was told that i would make my own, i am not the biggest fan of rogues, i actually prefer ANY fighting class, but fine i am not a jack ass i will play.

PC1-PC4: same deal here are your pre made classes and races, no one picks the class.

Fine.
an hour after we were supposed to start the female friend, call her gurl, shows up.

DM: you finished your character?
Gurl: ya i am playing a tiefling rogue, i also took an extra feat cause it fits my back story.
DM: fine.
Gurl, i also didnt like the point buy so chose better stats.
Dm: fine.

No crap, i swear this is how the conversation went down. I bit my lip, but a game is a game.

skip ahead.

Roleplaying.
Pc1:5 minutes
Me: 5 mintues.
Gurl:15 minutes, hushed talk with Dm.
PC2: 2 mintues, steps on gurls toes.
Gurl: interrupts, " i need to talk to you private."

Dm gurl step out for 15 more mintutes
returns.
DM: pc 2 you cant do that, you forfit your turn.
PC3: 5 minutes.
Gurl:10 minutes.

continue.

Combat rolled around something like this

PC1: swing and a miss.
PC2: you are knocked out.
ME: you back stab, with damage reduction you do 5 points.
Gurl: you do a lightning bolt, that hits the water, does extra damage and AGAIN save the party.
YAY.

oh and the usual we are to go from a-b, but gurl wants to wander to c, so we divert to her side quest agin and again and again.

that was my worst experience. Oh and this is how all the games there run, over and over and over.

How about the rest of you?