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I foresee several problems with this:

1) You're going to see a lot of negative reviews and very few positives. The title of your post is "...Both Good and Bad", you start off praising some anonymous GMs, but the meat of your post, and your reason for posting in the first place, is that you want to punish the GMs who "ran it wrong." Unless the GM does a transcendant job, people are rarely going to jump online to chip in a positive review.

I do not know that I fully agree with that.When I was GM'ing I did everything from 1st time, low-level players to veteran high-level ones. I also did both prepped scenarios and scenarios we weree literally down-loading on the spot. Yet my tables were filled with wonderful, understanding players who were encouraging in bad situations and attentive in difficult ones. In all my years of playing and GM'ing, this was my first Gencon. I wasn't impressed with much of it, all my anxiety washed away at the PFS HQ and GM'ing became my favorite part of the convention. At every table I ran my players let me know they had a fun wonderful time and onetable even applauded me. TheGM brings a lot to the game, but so does theplayers. Theplayers are every bit as much intregral part to a table's success as the GM. How much you, the player, enjoys the game is also up to you.

By the way, if you do really enjoy a GM, please do tell Mikeorone of the others. They do makesure it gets back to theGM and they do enjoy hearing it. It is not a bother and I can tell you that hearing from one of them that players stopped by to report great GM'ing by you is a fantastic feeling. Players will report the good too. That was the case for me...and that made the whole trip worth it.

I have played and played with a multitude of characters in a variety of game sessions over the decades. I can list 3 favorites of my own characters and some of other player characters.

One of my own characters that was a favorite for years in a large role-playing group was a 7th Sea priest I made. And I always remembered he was a priest...on a pirate ship. He was great. I used confessional booths to pass secret messages, get information and hide things. I used administering last rites as a way to get onto otherwise inaccessible crime scenes. I used ordination immunities to go whereever I wanted. I rarely used a sword, wasn't a healer and didn't touch magic. My character was completely skill based...and he became the single most important character in the group in a campaign that lasted years and even had a few annotations in some gamer magazines.

My favorite character from a fellow player was a Middle-Earth character played in the original I.C.E. system who was a mage and fumbled a spell check. He internalized his spell and lost all spellcasting abilities for a month. Instead of whining about the situation or insisting on changing characters, he walked over to a fallen goblin we had just slain, picked up it's short sword and held it up and said, "I'll use this." Pathfinder, the mage's name, became one of our most valuable characters in another campaign that lasted years.