This is where I would get the fork out.
Funny yet tragic story
Ahh, this story brings me back to the spasmodic games me and my friends used to play like this. (For the youngins, 'spaz' was what you called an ADD sufferer back in the day). Backstabbing, tavern wench pinching, see who can piss the DM off the worse kinda games, fueled by Mountain Dew and Suzy Q's. Ahh the long overnight sleepover with an assault on Demon Mountain planned ...
Gets weepy and nostalgic. Runs to go look at his 1E Player's Handbook
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Funny yet tragic storyAhh, this story brings me back to the spasmodic games me and my friends used to play like this. (For the youngins, 'spaz' was what you called an ADD sufferer back in the day). Backstabbing, tavern wench pinching, see who can piss the DM off the worse kinda games, fueled by Mountain Dew and Suzy Q's. Ahh the long overnight sleepover with an assault on Demon Mountain planned ...
Gets weepy and nostalgic. Runs to go look at his 1E Player's Handbook
This makes me wistful too. Thanks, Patrick.
Right there with you buddy.
Gets weepy and nostalgic. Runs to go look at his 1E Player's Handbook
Ditto. Brings me back to the pre-AD&D days in junior high, when the geek squad would pull an all-nighter in one of our basements, opening the "new" boxed set (remember this?), anxiously awaiting our 1st attempt on assaulting the Keep on the Borderlands... sigh.
Yes, those were the days.
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My pet peeve: "The Cakewalker."
This is the person who seems to enjoy the game and otherwise has all the hallmarks of a good player... until you actually throw in something that is remotely challenging. Then he starts whining because his character is paralyzed/petrified/nauseated/etc. And heaven forbid you actually kill his character or even reduce him to negative hit points. Then you've got a full-blown meltdown on your hands.
Status conditions are part of the game. Death is part of the game. I'm not asking you to LIKE having your character crippled/killed, I'm just asking you to not act like a 5-year-old when it happens.
My pet peeve: "The Cakewalker."
This is the person who seems to enjoy the game and otherwise has all the hallmarks of a good player... until you actually throw in something that is remotely challenging. Then he starts whining because his character is paralyzed/petrified/nauseated/etc. And heaven forbid you actually kill his character or even reduce him to negative hit points. Then you've got a full-blown meltdown on your hands.
Status conditions are part of the game. Death is part of the game. I'm not asking you to LIKE having your character crippled/killed, I'm just asking you to not act like a 5-year-old when it happens.
This happened in my group about 2 weeks ago. Our Gestalt Conjure/Beguiler thought she had nothing to do, and was whining about. We suggested summoning something, but it took a few more times before she heard us.
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My pet peeve: "The Cakewalker."
This is the person who seems to enjoy the game and otherwise has all the hallmarks of a good player... until you actually throw in something that is remotely challenging. Then he starts whining because his character is paralyzed/petrified/nauseated/etc. And heaven forbid you actually kill his character or even reduce him to negative hit points. Then you've got a full-blown meltdown on your hands.
Status conditions are part of the game. Death is part of the game. I'm not asking you to LIKE having your character crippled/killed, I'm just asking you to not act like a 5-year-old when it happens.
It's funny, I've a DM who's kind of like this. He's really loath to kill party members, no matter how much they Darwin themselves. He even ruined my best chance to kill a 'chaotic stupid' PC.
Well we enter a temple through a portal that required robes to go through, both ways. We defeat the big bad, and, following Shad's tactical directions, we are fleeing with the CN rogue and Shad holding up the rear.
Shadrach kicks on skate, and pulls ahead of the rogue. Now he sees his oportunity. He dons a robe, and tosses the rest of them into a burning brazier (not brassier) I tell the table "that way, the cultists will be trapped in the temple." He goes through the gate and is safe with the rest of the party. "She fell behind."
The temple crumbles the gate collapses, and out comes the rogue! No one else, and no explination except for 'magical fluxuation'. A perfectly planned death, having been planned as soon as I saw the flames in the cloak room (note: Cultists apparently don't have health and safety inspections) when we went in, which means it had been simmering for almost a month, real time. I was rather upset.
Now, the DM knew about the CN characters' plotting against us, and knew about Shad's counters (hiring rogues to burgle their townhome, assigning one of his retainers to serve as their butler, contacts with the Thief's guild, etc) and I had asked several times if he had an issue, he said no, it made his job easier. So here goes my clever plan, which went off without a hitch, and no way to pin her death on Shad. Even the players sitting at the table thought that Shad was innocent after the fact.
But he doesn't like PC deaths...
Ok, rant over.
Dude looking at porn on his laptop during a session.
Seriously - party had gotten through trapped ruins, and found the lair of an ancient dragon underneath. The dragon returned while we were exploring, and half the party was panicking due to Dragon Fear (AD&D campaign)... and I look over, and dude is watching porn on his laptop.
That beats playing WoW by miles... Honestly, why do guys like this show up at the gaming table anyway? (I don´t give a damn if anybody watches porn - but, hey, do it at home, will ya?!)
Stefan
Yeah..what's wrong with those people?!?!
Move along citizens, there is nothing to see here. Really there isn't.
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You just lack imagination.And physically impossible in this universe.Because that way is illegal in his state.It's MY PONY, but thats not why I am crying. I just sometiimes miss 1E.You can never love the pony the way I do.
No, just a power lift, two cups of egg whites and a ton of scientific equipment.
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No, just a power lift, two cups of egg whites and a ton of scientific equipment.You just lack imagination.And physically impossible in this universe.Because that way is illegal in his state.It's MY PONY, but thats not why I am crying. I just sometiimes miss 1E.You can never love the pony the way I do.
You're after my pony too?
It may not work! Quick, trot yourself into a state that offers protection!
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You're after my pony too?No, just a power lift, two cups of egg whites and a ton of scientific equipment.You just lack imagination.And physically impossible in this universe.Because that way is illegal in his state.It's MY PONY, but thats not why I am crying. I just sometiimes miss 1E.You can never love the pony the way I do.
He is my pony!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Fishy has the spray. And Mr. Fishy will use it. PSST!
Sorry misfire.
Do you like to Brush his hair, its just so purply and ...sigh so strong...........
Thank you. This thread has just completely ruined any fond memories I had of my "My Little Pony" collection. In fact, I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit, there. So now I'm off to the Goodwill...
...then therapy. Yes, Thanks, thanks again.
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Mr. Fishy has no thumbs, Mr. Fishy is glad he's not a sea horse.
<Shudder>
Mr. Fishy is glad that Mr. Fishy is not a sea cow, but Mr. Fishy wishes he hadn't dropped his spray.
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New to the list:
Interparty conflict over loot. This doesn't matter if it's OOC, IC or both. It sucks.
Interparty conflict in general.
People who advocate that a particular alignment is too stifling, and when playing a class that REQUIRES that alignment don't follow it. When I mention this, I don't see any remorse or repentence.
Ultimatums about a certain uncontrollable set of behaviour. Then again, ultimatums in general. Those don't work with me.
To any who persons affected by the above, who may or may not be reading this, this is not a passive aggressive thing, I've said my piece and I'm over it.
Did I mention earlier that this is where I get out the fork?
Ultimatums about a certain uncontrollable set of behaviour. Then again, ultimatums in general. Those don't work with me.
Did I mention that I'm a ^%$#^%@!11! dice kleptomaniac with Tourettes? The doc says I'm improving! But if you look the other way.