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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?
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I don't think I would have lasted as long as you did. Probably making an ass of myself by saying to her face in front of him "He just want's in your pants and I don't so you two have fun." then left. Something like that.
my worst experience was:
I played a sorceror, low level. After a session the times of troubles began: everytime I made a spell that didn't make sense in a very obvious way, it failed, once I became a woman, once a wolf for a day.
DM read a text for 5 minutes about how awesome the fight is between Elminster and Bane. Well actually we were in the fight, but we couldn't do anything worthwile. I jumpedo n Banes back to try to keep his eyes shut (I kind of wanted to die and that seemd like a good way), he pushed be aside and that was that.
But to be honest, our group (me included) wasn't much better, we worked together just as much as the average group of munchkin-players. Also we had Kelemvor and several other later gods in our party as NPC (deus ex machina vs our lvl 5 party), and we always planned to steak godsbane, the later legendary sword.
Anyway once our wizard and sorceror that were 99% doomed to fail casting met the new players that were book of the nine swords fighter rockstars, it all came apart. For the second last come together the DM decided to revert back to second edition...
I don't hold a grudge towards the DM, we were all immature I guess.
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Something like that happened to me, but I had an easier time, 'cause I was the DM and it was just two players (a married couple) which decided they wanted to mess with the adventure, the rest of the group, the rules and the overall game.
I try to be as flexible as the common fun demands, with minimal railroading - and with players and their weird ideas, I often found myself winging a side trek on the fly - but the "screwing the game just to assert our superiority" attitude was quite blatant.
As soon as I noticed the pattern, I called a break and had a talk with them.
They stormed out, making a very embarassing scene, and were never seen again.
and were never seen again.
for the best, i'm sure
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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".
I don't think I would have lasted as long as you did. Probably making an ass of myself by saying to her face in front of him "He just want's in your pants and I don't so you two have fun." then left. Something like that.
Well if that was the case, and the player DMing was someone i knew i might have sat for a session or two, if it was a friend i may have sat for 4 or so games to help him. But since the OP said that this wasn't the case well i congratulate him for being so patient and staying for several sessions.
Now to my experience, i really don't have "worst" experience playing either pathfinder or 3.5 and that's because i have played more WoD games than anything else (but quantity doesn't mean quality), anyway my worst experience with DnD was the following:
It was 3.5 and the game stopped at the 3rd session because the DM put out a deck of many things (big mistake) and we all drew from it. Result, me 16th level, two others 10th and one guy at 1st (but with one hell of a bow), and then although the DM had told him that due to the nature the xp works he would catch up quickly and that he would make something so that he isn't that far back in levels, the players decided to sabotage the game, no he didn't say that he didn't want to play anymore he actually sabotaged the game by moving the date we said to play, by bad-mouthing the kid who was DMing, by fiding last minute excuses to post pone the game etc.
Now if you want bad experiences with WoD and WoD like games i can share.
The game I am currently playing in is an absolute train wreck. The players are petty and refuse to look up rules, but claim that they know them. Here is one of the highlights of the game.
One of the players was allowed to use the over sized bear trap hammer which spawned this thread.
Bear trap hammer Crazyness The short version is that the non-magical hammer that nobody else was allowed to use or acquire let the level 1 player do upwards of 50 damage per hit, and all that the DM required was an exotic weapon proficiency.
Other characters in the game were nerfed to "maintain game balance" because we are killing the monsters too easily.
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".
There was a similar discussion at the old exalted threads and a similar conclusion was made but unfortunately the only way to do what you are suggesting is PbP games.
I'd have to say that one of the worst gaming experiences I had was when, as a teenager in high school, one of my friends had the "brilliant" idea that we should speak/play/DM the entirety of Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill in French (which we were both taking as a class)...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
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I'd have to say that one of the worst gaming experiences I had was when, as a teenager in high school, one of my friends had the "brilliant" idea that we should speak/play/DM the entirety of Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill in French (which we were both taking as a class)...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
Bah, we do this everytime !
(The fact we and my friends are french helps a bit, though.)Worst Game Ever :
Mmh... the DM was worst DM/PC/DMPC ever too, more to come on the other thread.
Basically, we played ourselves after falling into a rift. And we played the heroes from a book the DM was reading. Roleplaying turned around the untold game "find out what the book's characters did if you want it to work !". So we found Loki, were beaten a lot (especially myself), had to sing the Marseillaise to drunk vikings if we didn't want to be killed, etc.
Short, and totally real resume of the scene :
"Well, I sing Village People's YMCA !" (Playing ourselves from the real world, a catchy tune on drunk vikings which wouldn't understand the song, with a loud voice seemed like a funny and cunning way to look like tough warriors.)
"No, you don't sing this. You should sing La Marseillaise."
"Why ?"
"Because you sing La Marseillaise. Sing, others !"
"Le jour de gloire est..."
"The vikings like your song, and decide not to kill you."
Now if you want bad experiences with WoD and WoD like games i can share.
Yes, please... Honestly, I don't know if we are ready for the things that some people playing WoD do (like the one story from LARP I heard from the friend who was threatened with a real knife) but don't bother with our sanity - it is overestimated anyway.
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Wow... some amazing stories!
One day I will share the greatest mistake I made; answering a 'gamers wanted sign' in a FLGS...
hmmm worst game would have to be just recently. Previous group, 2 couples and myself as DM. Husband A was unknown to everyone but his wife socially. We had invited his wife and him to play since we needed new players. He decided he was going to play a summoner. Okay cool, we hadn't tried that class yet.
I swear the guy must have read all of those old Dragon magazines that had write ups on problem player types and incorporated them into his personality.
It boggles the mind... he would tell other people what to do, how to play thier characters, second guess all their choices down to which square they moved their mini through. He could look at his wife's dice as they hit the table and do the math and tell her what she rolled with all her bonuses.. but when it was his turn to roll he would snatch the die up as soon as it stopped moving and then stare at it for a minute before he could finish the math. (ie he was cheating)
He would help himself to the host's food and drink.
He would whine and complain about the adventure from character creation on.
He had a strict layout of everything for his character and anything that deviated from it was drama.
It was madness I tell you!
If I hadn't witnessed it and was reading someone else's account of it I would say.. come on.. the dude was screwing with you on purpose.
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I've had my share of bad games (DM power trip? Literal revolving door with monsters? Ridiculously disruptive players? Been there, done that.) but the one that stands out most inmy mind was a convention game.
It was toward the end of a convention, that rump Monday morning slot. I overslept. It was an organized play game, so there was a mustering as the tables were being prepared. I dreaded what this meant.
I show up, and everyone has already been made into tables, with the exception of one group of people--namely, those who no one else wanted in their table. Every member of the group was some combination of argumentative, smelly, obstinate, and oblivious. The arguments and posturing over BO had begun before we all sat at the table.
And then there was the DM. Oh, the poor DM! She was a nice enough person, but she had received maybe half an hour of sleep for the entire multi-day convention. So the session went with a bunch of loud, obnoxious (and somewhat sexist) non-sequitur browbeating, at which point the DM could barely make out what was being said or asked. Heck, she was so exhausted that she couldn't even roll dice consistently anymore. She would stare into space for a couple seconds to build up the concentration needed for the task, then fumble with the dice, trying to pick them up (she no longer had the coordination necessary to do so), then take another couple seconds to finally read what the dice said. We got through maybe half the adventure, myself glad to stay in the back and not find myself "accidentally" in the line of fire.
Actually, some of the most unpleasant gaming experiences were with the last group that I played with a few years back.
Things were going fine until the new additions -- a step-father and his older step-son -- joined the group.
The first time the step-son joined in -- a few hours late due to work or something -- his character attempted to punch out one of the other characters because he didn't agree with the player's decision to play the character's reactions the way it ought to have been played. (In other words, a fighter continuing to fight in a losing battle rather than retreating.) Right then and there, I suspected there would be trouble.
The next gaming session, the step-father was present, and their method of playing soon became evident.
Apparently they played D&D in their own gaming group a few times a week; were extremely competitive with each other; knew 3.5 rules inside and out (whereas most of us were relative newbies to 3.5, but experienced gamers with earlier AD&D rules); were impatient with people who didn't have their encyclopedic knowledge; and kept having their characters (a ranger and a rogue) go off on "scouting trips" that soon turned into solo adventures for them while the rest of us twiddled our thumbs impatiently.
The step-father assumed control/leadership of the party with (admittedly) little protest from the rest of us, except for my closest friend, who was playing again after a very long time away from the game. He's one of those people who doesn't take guff from anyone, speaks his mind very plainly and audibly, and bristles at being told what to do.
I think you can see where this is leading... To make a long story short, the whole kerfuffle ended up ending my 15-year friendship with the DM because he refused to intervene in the deteriorating situation! "Sort it out amongst yourselves," was his reply. Mine was, "Um, no. You're the DM, this falls under your purview."
In protest, three of us did not turn up at a gaming session and didn't let anyone know until the last minute. We ended up getting tossed out of the group as a result, and the DM and I haven't spoken since.
As far as I know, the rest of this group is still meeting, and one or two other players of a similar mindset have taken up residence in it...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
The worst game ever for me was previously the most awesome game ever.
Even though it was in GURPS, it was a great storyline, we had awesome immersion into the characters, and the GM was a friend of ours and fan-effing-tastic. It was jsut three of us at the beginning, 2 players and one GM. We played every saturday for about 3 months this way, when another friend was allowed to join us. The game continued for a while, but the new player was over bearing, and the GM, awesome as he was, was very non-confrontational. This lead to the game being hijacked by the new player, all main story lines kind of stopped, and began to revolve around his character. Any attempt in game to get things going resulted in PVP action. It was a disaster. Finally the GM realized he'd lost control of his own game, and cancelled it.
To this date that was the best storyline in a game I had ever encountered, and also the worst gaming experience I've ever had.
old Star Wars D6, ran by a newbie GM, who for some reason I've never been able to figure out, was in a constant state of one-upmanship with me (I guess because at the time we were both the young guys in the group and he felt he needed to prove himself the better, I dunno) anyways, the setup is thus;
we are all rebels held prisoner on a prison planet of the Federation, there are about 10 players, with me being the only pilot. We need to plan an escape and get off this rock. Well being such a large group, the planning session took, I kid you not, 4 hours. But finally, we come up with a plan that suits everyone.
Basically we are to cause a distraction and get me to a shuttle to get everyone off planet.
So distraction commences, initiative is rolled, GM has an E-Web Cannon open up on me before anyone can act, *BOOM* goes the pilot, down goes the plan, the rest of the group at least gets to roll some dice for a few minutes before they are also killed.
Another one was a Shadowrun game in which we were all playing Prime Runners (epic characters basically), me an a buddy are playing elven runners who have recently made it to Seattle. The GM tells us that our first job we take is from a guy who approaches us in a bar and asks us to retrieve his parrot for 100 bucks. I tell him I don't get off my barstool for less than a grand. He then proceeds to tell us that we take it anyways and find the parrot and return it, and then find out the parrot was worth like 15 million and then he laughs at us for being so stupid (mind you, there has been NO roleplaying, not even rollplaying, he's just told us all this) I tell him, I find the guy and make a gruesome example of him and his bird, he ignores it and then runs the game.
If you don't know the system, my character was an uber-butt kicker, quite possibly capable of killing a dragon solo (and in Shadowrun, this is a much greater feat than in DnD), I constantly ran into mooks, random factory workers, who could constantly shrug off my attacks and could nearly one punch me.
For those of you that do know the system (3rd edition) my melee skill after mods was 17 and my attack started off at 13D, I was the bodyguard you called when you learned that Teachdaire was after you.
Now if you want bad experiences with WoD and WoD like games i can share.Yes, please... Honestly, I don't know if we are ready for the things that some people playing WoD do (like the one story from LARP I heard from the friend who was threatened with a real knife) but don't bother with our sanity - it is overestimated anyway.
First i will say that i have never played LARP (simply because LARP died in the city i live shortly after i began playing RPGs in general).
And second, God no i don't have stories like that.Anyway here are two "highlight" scenes from a WtF (werewolf the forsaken) game:
1) The pack (party of werewolves) goes to a historical building (was prison at 1800-ish), that has locus, and it's in our territory (one which we have for years) in order to replenish our essence (think mana points). And there we found 10-15 mages who tell us that this place also has a hallow and they need it to recharge their energy (their mana points). Fortunately the mages were very good poeple and didn't kicked us out from our locus. Then we start talking with one of those cabals (a party of mages) and decide to take them for a little trip in the shadow realm, then when we arrive there the world "crackes" up because, as we learned later, that mage was an archmaster* of several arcana and the shadow realm cracked up because of that, then we quickly return to the material realm and ask the mages what the hell happened, they tell us that we shouldn't have taken him to the shadow realm because bad things might happen (although it's almost trivial for a mage of his power to go into the shadow realm), of course they couldn't help us with that problem and we had to fix it ourselves.
archmaster means near-god powers to one arcana (arcana= 1 of 10 purviews of reality), and there aren't really rules for that kind of powers because the game isn't supposed to play at that levels, think 20+ levels.
2) We are at the roof of the building we were using as home for our pack, then all of a sudden a group of hunters** appear out of thin air, one of them starts chanting a spell and without rolling initiative or anything my char and one more of our pack find themselves that they can't move and are paralyzed (of course there was no resistance roll or anything like that, don't be stupid poeple), then the hunters tell us that they won't kill us now because they pre-occupied with another "big fish" and don't have time for us, and that we should stop medling because we didn't know what were up against and they would have to kill us.
poeple who for one reason or the other hate/don't want supernatural to exist and hunts them down to either kill them or imprison them, they are for the most part ordinary mortals who rely on their technology, wits, guts and the weakness and arrogance of supernatural beings to take them down.
As you can guess the whole campaing went along with poeple who were too awesome and could solve the problem but for some reason they didn't, also they were too awesome and we never could be like them and they were too awesome and cool for us to really do anything about it since they were too cool for us to handle.
If you want i have other stories from that campaing and others.
I'd have to say that one of the worst gaming experiences I had was when, as a teenager in high school, one of my friends had the "brilliant" idea that we should speak/play/DM the entirety of Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill in French (which we were both taking as a class)...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
Bah, we do this everytime !
(The fact we and my friends are french helps a bit, though.)
Fair enough! ;-)
In that case, for the proper effect, substitute "French" for whatever language(s) you lot are/were taught as a second language in school...
Let's just say that Gothic Horror fumblingly translated into a language you're still learning doesn't exactly keep you "in the game"...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
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In that case, for the proper effect, substitute "French" for whatever language(s) you lot are/were taught as a second language in school...Let's just say that Gothic Horror fumblingly translated into a language you're still learning doesn't exactly keep you "in the game"...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
I would probably sleep during a german game.
And I probably couldn't follow an english one.Playing in a foreign language ? You were crazy, sir ! :D
Worst game I can recall was a con game of Shadowrun. I was playing a Sniper/Adept built as an experienced runner.
We were tasked with taking out small compound in a raid. When we attacked the compound we discovered that we had no way of actually damaging anything in the place everything had armor exceeding the maximum damage anyone could do even with my magically supercharged armor piercing bullet. Our only solution was to call in back up from Lonestar Security who then proceeded to rip the place apart while we stood by and watched. Thats right a group of experienced shadowrunners had to call the cops to do the job for them....something seems wrong about that.
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Told to create characters for a starwars game.
Two of us created a jedi, who was captured by imperial troops, and a rogue storm trooper/bodyguard who chose to free the young jedi.
everything that could go wrong did, to my character.
I could never figure out why. I was so deadly with a blaster rifle i could shoot a ewok at a 100 pacese , blind folded. In fact i was good enough to actually hit a good guy with the blaster, not shoot a tree while trying to peg a drunk han solo five feet in front.
However, i was beaten, kidnapped, prisoned, etc...
it was only later did i realize that the dm had a crush on the girl playing the jedi, therfore i could not be her protector.
LOL
three games, we ended up going to the movies together, and we were both banished.
Same thing at university. Game group met every other day and played. DM was an obnoxious bore, kept hitting on one girl in the group. She decided to make it obvious i was her bf, of course someone could have told me. Two death traps and an angry greend dragon later still 5th level, i was dead, but at least not single.
girls and games, never mix!!!! ;)
again....its all about who wears the pants, whose in the pants, and who still thinks that rolling his charisma check will let him touch the pants.
I would probably sleep during a german game.
And I probably couldn't follow an english one.
Playing in a foreign language ? You were crazy, sir ! :D
Yeah, it was a dumb idea in hindsight, but I went along with it.
Trust me, there was a lot of verb tense mangling and "le / la" followed by the English word, and many sheepish expressions!
To this day, whenever I think of that module, those are my overwhelming memories! :-/
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
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Same thing at university. Game group met every other day and played. DM was an obnoxious bore, kept hitting on one girl in the group. She decided to make it obvious i was her bf, of course someone could have told me. Two death traps and an angry greend dragon later still 5th level, i was dead, but at least not single.
I know a few people who'd sacrifice their 15th level character if it ment they'd score a gf instead - so not sure that was a bad trade :)
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I tend to suppress the bad memories, but...
We once found out this guy from work played Star Wars, too. We invited him to come play, and he said that while he wasn't interested in an ongoing commitment, he would come over and run as a guest GM.
The entire affair was an exhibition of how awesome he was, how powerful his home game characters were, and how many different voices he could do. Not a single die was rolled, and nothing anyone else in the room did or said even mattered.
I wanted to stop him, but he was really pouring his soul into the performance. It was so very, very awkward. Words fail.
Told to create characters for a starwars game.
Two of us created a jedi, who was captured by imperial troops, and a rogue storm trooper/bodyguard who chose to free the young jedi.
everything that could go wrong did, to my character.
I could never figure out why. I was so deadly with a blaster rifle i could shoot a ewok at a 100 pacese , blind folded. In fact i was good enough to actually hit a good guy with the blaster, not shoot a tree while trying to peg a drunk han solo five feet in front.
However, i was beaten, kidnapped, prisoned, etc...
it was only later did i realize that the dm had a crush on the girl playing the jedi, therfore i could not be her protector.
LOL
three games, we ended up going to the movies together, and we were both banished.
If you knew that the DM had a crush on the girl playing the jedi, the DM was your friend and you actually hit on her then i think that you were foul on that one, since your friend wanted her first and haven't yet made his move.
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My worst were the two lousy attempts at playing with my then-girlfriend's stoner pals back in high school.
First of all, they invited practically everybody they knew. So there were never less than fifteen people in the room. Secondly, they were mostly all stoned, so they just gabbed and snacked for two hours while the DM tried to get his act together. He never did, on either occasion.
In short, I sat around a smokey table with a bunch of people I would not normally hang out with, and waited for nothing to happen for a couple of hours.
Of course, I have had other bad games. Repugnant players, in-fighting, boredom. But nothing is worse than sitting doing nothing in a room with a bunch of stoned people who brag about what great players they are, but never actually play.
Same thing at university. Game group met every other day and played. DM was an obnoxious bore, kept hitting on one girl in the group. She decided to make it obvious i was her bf, of course someone could have told me. Two death traps and an angry greend dragon later still 5th level, i was dead, but at least not single.I know a few people who'd sacrifice their 15th level character if it ment they'd score a gf instead - so not sure that was a bad trade :)
Makes me glad to be an attractive gay nerd. My nerdiness is seen as endearing to men. I suspect that's not the case with women. As an added benefit I don't really care if women like it or not! ;-)
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LOL love it golem, so true to.
And to answer another post.
1.i never knew he liked her (and even if he wasnt my friend being a guest you dont act like an ass.).
2.It was never my choice, it was hers, free people no one has claims.
3.never hit on someone in a relationship, however it takes two people to be in a relationship...at least so i have been told.
4. roleplaying is great, but dates were better. no i am married, so i am happy, if only i can trick wy wife into playing...hmmm.
And to answer another post.
1.i never knew he liked her (and even if he wasnt my friend being a guest you dont act like an ass.).
2.It was never my choice, it was hers, free people no one has claims.
3.never hit on someone in a relationship, however it takes two people to be in a relationship...at least so i have been told.4. roleplaying is great, but dates were better. no i am married, so i am happy, if only i can trick wy wife into playing...hmmm.
Well if the girl was hot (smoking or otherwise)* i wouldn't mind being a somewhat of an ass even if i was a guest and since (to your best knowledge) the girl was free and the DM wasn't your friend then the girl was fair game.
And the DM was foul for throwing you out.I really can't offer you any advice on how to trick your wife into playing, i way too young to understand how wives think.
*order of the stick reference
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i am way to old to know how wives think.
lol actually still young, somewhere in the middle, yay me.
order of the stick...not bad.
no KODT but then what it is.
two stories, two different girls, one hot...one...umm nice.
so it all worked out in the end, well for everyone but that prick of a dm.
at least i ran into him one day, still single, still trollign for players.
ahh revenge, the one with the pants off always wins!
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i am way to old to know how wives think.
lol actually still young, somewhere in the middle, yay me.
order of the stick...not bad.no KODT but then what it is.
two stories, two different girls, one hot...one...umm nice.so it all worked out in the end, well for everyone but that prick of a dm.
at least i ran into him one day, still single, still trollign for players.ahh revenge, the one with the pants off always wins!
My husband has never won an argument simply by taking off his pants, but it's certainly a tactic I'm going to suggest. ;-)
A GM is running a GMPC with a party of SIX PCs. Because my character died defending a mate at low levels, he brought her back with a plot device, and forced a level of oracle on her.
Her stats are WIS 18, Cha 15 at the moment.
it... is ass.
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I ran a group with my soon to be wife in it for 6 months before we started dating. If memory serves I almost killed her at least 3 times. No special treatment from me.
Worst game was a nWoD. The GM had a GMPC Geist who would show up and spend his time telling us how dangerous he was and how we couldn't handle the things he did. Then when 50 Hunters (50!) showed up and defeated all of our defenses and saw through all of our plans and rolls, I ran the campaign off the rails and left town, the rest of the party following after me. Never played a session after that.
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A GM is running a GMPC with a party of SIX PCs. Because my character died defending a mate at low levels, he brought her back with a plot device, and forced a level of oracle on her.
Her stats are WIS 18, Cha 15 at the moment.
it... is ass.
Don't forget you don't HAVE to play this character. In our group we got a guy with a barbarian, and someday he started to sing in character. Badly. Three times we asked him to stop for real and in game. Fourth time, I suggested to the DM to make him take his next level as a Bard.
We teased him to do it and he almost choose to do it by himself, but even if we put the joke on him until the end, he finally took his barbarian level. Forcing a class on someone is bad GMing. :(
i am way to old to know how wives think.
lol actually still young, somewhere in the middle, yay me.
order of the stick...not bad.no KODT but then what it is.
two stories, two different girls, one hot...one...umm nice.so it all worked out in the end, well for everyone but that prick of a dm.
at least i ran into him one day, still single, still trollign for players.ahh revenge, the one with the pants off always wins!
What does KODT means?
Knights of the Dinner Table
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What does KODT means?i am way to old to know how wives think.
lol actually still young, somewhere in the middle, yay me.
order of the stick...not bad.no KODT but then what it is.
two stories, two different girls, one hot...one...umm nice.so it all worked out in the end, well for everyone but that prick of a dm.
at least i ran into him one day, still single, still trollign for players.ahh revenge, the one with the pants off always wins!
Knights of the Dinner Table. Comic about gamers. Prefer Order of the Stick personally.
Wow! In all my years of gaming I'm mostly fortunate for the rather mild yet sometime dramatic stuff that went on at my table.
This stuff would make awesome reality TV shows.
Worst GM:
At a Con I signed up for a "fight a dragon" adventure. I figured what the heck.
We smashed, crashed, stabbed, murdered and made so much commotion getting to the dragon at the end of the dungeon. Somehow it was still sleeping. I was role-playing and said, "I doubt the dragon would still be sleeping, dragons are wise and smart and it would just bait us into sneaking up onto it..."
Soooo. here's where I assumed the player playing the thief was friends of the GM (Unconfirmed)
Thief: I sneak up to the dragon.
GM: OK, it doesn't seem to notice you.
Thief: I take out a couple of bottles of oil and cover the dragon....
GM: It doesn't wake up.
Thief... I take out my torch and light it, sneakily..
GM: Ok, now what...
Thief: I set the oil on fire and then I back stab the dragon.
GM: Ok... Roll damage for the fire, and roll your back stab attack.
GM: The sleeping dragon, wakes up in rage and pain. Everybody roll initiative.
The dragon was dead 2 rounds later and didn't even have a chance to attack..because the fighter stunned it, while the thief continued to back-stab it.
I grabbed my stuff and polity said I had to leave..saying that is no way to run a dragon...and that it was b**lshit to myself. From that point on, my players would always know the wrath of how a dragon was meant to be played and feared.
Worst Player under my GM'ing:
Warhammer players turned roleplayers (brother combo package)
Brother 1: The wand of magic missiles. Always played a mage. Always just sat back and played magic missle or fireball. No role playing.
Got mad and quit when during a fire in a city he was casting fireballs and the council of magi told him it was foolish and that he could repent by wearing a circlet of wisdom (+4 wisdom, -4 Int) until he could learn better.
Brother 2: The Fighter. Smash. Smash. Smash. 1/2 Blue Dragon character cast lightning bolt at a blue dragon that then killed him. Got mad at the party and quit and accused the party of secretly going out to party without him after the game session. We went to dennys to play carcassone, he couldn't come because he had a little kid.
Worst Group Ever:
The Alpha wolf of the group would write long nasty grams to players after they quit and turned the other players against them. I was GM'ing to the group at the time and when I said I was moving across the country, they immediately stopped the campaign and started planning a new one right in front of my eyes. I'm like I can continue this one out until I leave... and the alpha said, "What's the point?". 2 days later I got my nasty gram posted on the internet detailing all my flaws.
This turned me off from gaming so much, I left all my stuff (mostly 300 dollars worth of dnd miniatures and some board games at the alphas house vowing never to play again. Then I found good players and pathfinder. Amen.
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I don't have that much of a horror story, I tend to not return to games that go bad quickly. My daughter on the other hand....
..was playing in a Vampire the Masquerade game, and since I don't play I cant recall the exact details. The bottom line was the GM and all seven players were her tight knit group of college friends and had all been involved in this complex drama laden game for about a year, when the DM decided he wanted to date her. When she would not go out with him (she was dating someone else at the time) he started having bad things happen to her character, and eventually started mind controlling her, humiliating her character, crippling her, etc. As the capper, he tried to get her to sleep with him, and she said no, so the next game session he killed her character in this amazingly dramatic fashion in front of everyone with no chance for her to alter the outcome. After this she pretty much swore off gaming for a year or so.
Eventually, I managed to convince her to play again with me as GM, but she was pretty upset. And people wonder why it is hard to convince women to play RP games sometimes...
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the worst part is i have seen so many of these people, but it only takes one and can pull the rest of the group down.But i must say cheers to all of you for finding new people to game with, it is rewarding and fun, social and should be a great game, story and should just be nice for everyone. I have to say no matter how frustrating its nice to vent as well sometimes.
the brothers, damn sounds o much like a pair of warhammer brothers i knew.
hmmm.
same prob with my ex, dm decided that she was his property and ruined the game for everyone.
Probably the longest running scenario for me was with my first DM.
We had a relatively large group, ranging from really low levels to around 13 (DM ruled if your character died, you came in at 1st level - no one could figure out why a 1st level character would adventure with 12th level guys, but we abided). At one point, the party sets up a trap for an evil army, planting explosives that pretty much brings down a mountain on them. There's a huge cave we find that was hidden and sealed, and the only thing in it is a bottle with 3 rings on its neck, with a place for a 4th.
We learn that the rings bring you inside, and it's basically a portable base. About halfway down into the bottle (it was separated by floors), there's a door with runes on it that we can't open, and no one can figure out what it is, even with huge knowledge checks and all.
Long story (ohh.. such a long story) short, we get interested in the bottle and spend literally over a MONTH of real world time (once a week sessions) doing nothing but trying to find out the bottle. At first, we find almost nothing out. Then we kind of decide that the DM isn't gonna throw us a bone yet, so we go back to dismantling this army. As soon as we look away, the DM throws more info about it. So we try to learn about it; it turns into another dead end. We stop, more info.
It's like trying to read a book, but when you're actually looking at the words, they just stop, then when you turn away, you can see the story continuing. It was REALLY frustrating.
I'd have to say that one of the worst gaming experiences I had was when, as a teenager in high school, one of my friends had the "brilliant" idea that we should speak/play/DM the entirety of Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill in French (which we were both taking as a class)...
Cheers, JohnH / Wanda
I can totally see it. "Oh, ma cherry, you make me confiture"
And, of course, rule 1 for every English-speaking person aspiring to learn another language: Curb your Anglicisms!
"So, je would, like drai, une petitt, like, saucisse, avec, like totally, some sauce, dude."
Though probably not as hilarious as listening to a former coworker of mine trying to speak English. Okay, it was only hilarious at first. Later, you wanted to gnaw your own ears off.
I don't want to ridicule others when they're not perfect in a foreign language. But, seriously: The guy claimed to have lived for a year in the USA to handle a project there, and he was worse than a 6th-grader after her first English lesson.
All-time high-light: "I'm sorry about ze Friedhalm was not came today" (imagine every tone totally flat, about as bad as Schwarzenegger's very first films, or even worse).
Nobody will say anything about occasional fumbles, like "I have cold" (that was me I think, and I mess that up sometimes in German, too), or Mealstorm (that was me, too.)
But anyway, back to the scheduled programme.