The thing is, there weren't several instances, only that one first game where his custom magic tradition (MUNCHKIN ALERT) Prime got the "rocks fall" treatment. He claims that there were several instances, but so far that was the only play session. He's still talking about making his 2nd character, so there hasn't been a 2nd game yet. Because of that, I don't trust reddit's opinion regarding "he was upset that he didn't get to kill the whole team." Maybe he was upset because Old Super-munch killed all the other players in a tantrum.

Like I said, the only indication provided that this is a pattern of behavior is with the sniper's death in addition to the two Primes.

Even the "he ruled that Fireballs are essentially FAE bombs" statement is suspect. Both fireballs and FAEs have a consistent damage value everywhere inside their AoE. The only difference is that FAEs have blast effects which continue outside of their primary uniform AoE. I wouldn't see how that would come into play with killing the sniper. Did someone detonate a fireball high in the air above him and have the resultant DV at -2/m kill the guy outside of the AoE? That seems like a really stupid way to insta-kill someone by fiat, which is how Reddit describes the action..

Aren't you all drawing waaaay too many conclusions based on a small and vague piece someone posted? It's just a barely coherent rant, how can you be so sure about what was really going on?

warning wall of rant.

my group had a bad gm that we tolerated just because we used his tool shed for our games in high school.
it started off well enough he had his character run along ours as a decker. he started getting very competitive where his decker had to be useful in about all situations and he became upset if anyone outsmarted him or defeated a challenge of his easier than he expected.eventually he started changing various rules on the fly without asking for the thoughts of the players. he even went as far as to change the stats and gear of npcs during the scenarios or combat. he got very upset when any of us killed the opposition but stressed how the opposition wanted to kill us. he would blame us or the book for the rewards that he gave us that made us better.(biggest example was 2.5 kilos of orichalcum) in the end he made an attempt to kill all of us in the last session.he split us up, he killed the mundane demo expert with an invisible mage, i didnt fall into the trap, the gun adept was captured and blew himself and his captors up but hand of god his way out,the sword adept escaped. after we finished our mission he tells us all our contacts have been killed. and some kind of god came down to fight us casting force 20 slay spells, the sword adepts described his hog as his goddess coming to smite the enemy. it all may sound epic but it was nothing more than railroading. one player left early because he was tired of the gms bs the rest of us stayed until the gm was pissed and told us to leave.

a few years later he decides that he wants to run d20 modern. doesnt want the players to have copies of the rules. gets quite pissed when he finds out we had them. tells us that atleast one character will die per session doesnt let us choose how to build our characters imposes several artificial limits and removes all our equipment at the begining of play without warning us and to top it all off he payed off another player to try to pick a fight with me at the table so he could claim i was to violent to play or some such. in the end teamwork and outsmarting the gm had us survive the first session then we decided to never play with him as a gm again. which apparently extended into playing anything with him at all.

I have a GM who calls for an intelligence roll whenever someone gets a really bad idea.

Hm? I misread the comments then, I was under the impression that there had been other games besides this one.

I still say neither party is innocent, and I'm not exactly shedding tears that Johnny Awesome got his. I just would've done it in a more entertaining manner - like Rube Goldberg death trap in space. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

This is the Internet. It's fueled by paranoia and gross assumptions based off little to no information.

Goodness, what were you expecting? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Sithney, are you sure you went through the comments as well as the actual story? I'm confused as to why you say this was the first time this sort of thing had happened with that GM.

Cake and drop bears. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

...

I could settle for that.

*drops*

Not on me, you won't. I stay away from trees in the Sixth World, thank you very much.

What if I dropped bearing cake?

It's a lie

"Ceci n'est pas un pipe".

~J

I second that (well, logic or intiuition as appropriate, usually logic). Sometimes a player is a lot smarter or dumper than their character, but the characters always have more information than the players do. They've actually lived in the world and see and hear much more than what you describe to the players.

Conseqently smart players with dumb characters might find plans falling between cracks they didn't know about (though I suppose this doesn't happen all that often, I try to describe things well). While a duller player might be given some extra information, and a few extra hard whacks with the cluebat.

While not a roll or anything, I also tend to give characters with players smarter than they are more time to think.

The other thing I need to do is give the PC (not the player) credit for who they are. You need to provide the Context.