emo samurai
Oct 23 2006, 03:18 PM
I'm not talking about C.L.U.E. files material or simple pvp conflict; I'm talking about annoying ass habits.
I have one player who repeats shit all the time. He has a character who used to be part of Knight Errant and was discharged to appease the media after killing a good merged little girl. When fighting a beetle spirit, he used a Knowledge: Insect Spirits check to find its weak spot (its neck).
This wasn't a problem in and of itself, except for the fact that he repeated "You see that? I knew its weak spot!" about five fucking times.
Oh, and he thinks he has ESP and used it to find out his military call sign, which is "shadow." He also names his character "Shadow," because he's shadowy.
Another player is playing a snake shaman named "Cobra," so named because "He slithers." He repeated this about five times during character creation. He also said "So when the smoke clears and everything, you're gone, because my character will shapeshift you. He'll benefit everybody" about five fucking times.
Anyone care to chime in with tales of extreme player social ineptitude?
Jack Kain
Oct 23 2006, 03:41 PM
Well I've only played about four sessions of shadowrun so I don't have the experience with this game yet.
But I have dealt with it in D&D.
For example we have a gnomish druid who his chaotic neutral self decides he's going to break chairs over the back of random people.
As the DM I ended up handling this by pointing out the lizardman in fullplate at the bar. He took the hook and bashed the chair over the lizard man's back. A Lizardman who was a 16th level fighter. (the party is level 3 at this point).
The lizardman Zorr was in town anyway so I just made him a prime target.
The gnome spent the rest of the parties time in town tied to a flag pool out of the PC's reach. Not that they had any disire to bring him down.
ShadowDragon
Oct 23 2006, 03:44 PM
One of my players is an extreme pushover with no confidence. All you have to do is say no and look at him with a serious face after he asks you for a favor that should be no problem, and he'll start refrasing the question 10 times while squirming uncomfortably. Ironically this player is the party face lol
"Sparks, can you stand guard while I talk to this guy?"
"No Ace." *pretend glare*
"Sparks, will you please stand guard?"
*continues pretend glare*
"Please...Sparks? I really think it would be a good idea..." *squirm*
"Sparks will you please stand guard...please?"
"Whyyyyy won't you..? *giggle* Come on!"
"Pleaseeee?" *exaggerated squirming*
This will go on until I put an end to it, which usually happens after it stops being funny and starts being sad. I'm trying to cut it out and make this player act more confident (and the other players, frequently it's the guy playing Sparks), but it hasn't been easy.
DireRadiant
Oct 23 2006, 03:54 PM
Kagetenshi
Oct 23 2006, 04:07 PM
We had a player once with untreated schizophrenia. He was only with us for two sessions, since he spent more time in the back room having a religious experience than playing. It was unfortunate, as apparently he's a pretty decent player when he's entirely seated in reality.
~J
emo samurai
Oct 23 2006, 04:09 PM
Dude, tell him that God wants him to stop grovelling and play. BE his religious experience.
James McMurray
Oct 23 2006, 05:57 PM
She wasn't a gamer, but the guys in my group (not me) were there when the girlfriend of the guy whose house they were gaming at blew her head off in the other room.
James McMurray
Oct 23 2006, 05:59 PM
I knew another ghuy in college. He was a gamer but I never gamed with him. He was constantly telling me and my wife how he was part vampire and if he shoved a pencil through his hand he'd pull it out and it would heal up super fast. For some reason though he never took us up on our "prove it and we'll do ___" offers.
Kagetenshi
Oct 23 2006, 06:03 PM
QUOTE (emo samurai) |
Dude, tell him that God wants him to stop grovelling and play. BE his religious experience. |
The problem with that is that he, like most schizophrenics, remained sufficiently seated in reality to understand that a voice coming from an identifiable and ordinary person just might be less authoritative than a voice coming from… well, I don't know the details on this particular person, it might have been coming from nowhere/everywhere or from an object in the room or on his person. Either way, if the chair in the room tells you to listen, and the guy in the next room tells you to listen, I for one would listen to the chair—the guy in the next room's just a guy, you know?
~J
emo samurai
Oct 23 2006, 06:07 PM
Hide behind a chair.
QUOTE (James McMurray) |
She wasn't a gamer, but the guys in my group (not me) were there when the girlfriend of the guy whose house they were gaming at blew her head off in the other room. |
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WhiskeyMac
Oct 23 2006, 06:34 PM
I played D&D with a guy who had his complete character planned out to epic level from character generation. Everything was planned, even feats and skill level point allocation. He refused to change the way his character acted (some hoighty-toighty chaotic neutral high elf mage fucker), would only play by 3.0 rules (even though we were playing 3.5) and called everyone what their task was, not by their names. I almost smacked him upside his head with the hardbound players handbook. He only played 2 sessions with us.
In Shadowrun, I GMed for a ADHD kid who would make characters based off a concept and then totally fuck them up, backpedal to character generation and retcon a skill in. A good example was his "electronics engineer specialist" who didn't have an electronics skill, carried about 200 pounds of equipment in a knapsack (that he would like to add to randomly to fit the situation) and dressed like a retarded copy of Neo. After I told him he had no electronics skill, he spent the next 20 minutes talking to me about his character and totally disregarded my comment. About the middle of the run he realized he hadn't added it to his character sheet and started pissing and moaning. I also had a player who's characters would fit the Uncouth bill to a T but never actually took the quality. He was always one step away from going Postal 2 at any moment.
knasser
Oct 23 2006, 06:57 PM
I ran D&D with some interesting players in it. One was the Run Away guy who just really didn't like combat. As his wizard's skinny arse vanished rapidly back down the road at the first sign of trouble he would always turn to the other players apologetically and say: "It's what my character would do."
LordHaHa
Oct 23 2006, 07:03 PM
QUOTE (James McMurray) |
She wasn't a gamer, but the guys in my group (not me) were there when the girlfriend of the guy whose house they were gaming at blew her head off in the other room. |
Uh...
emo samurai
Oct 23 2006, 07:09 PM
Yeah, I know. It's quite a story to put next to a dude who thought he was a half-vampire.
LordHaHa
Oct 23 2006, 07:33 PM
Well, since I'm here, I guess I could share one or two canidates. The first isn't that bad in terms of habits, it just that he is subject to these habits all the time when in game. Specifically, no matter what character he is using (Street Sam, Mage, Decker, whatever), he always plays them as abject cowards. His basic philosophy is "Don't Do Anything Or We Will All Die". When anything risky goes down, he (without fail) gives the group a five to ten minute long sermon about how said risky action is a bad idea, neatly organized into groups and subgroups of what the specific dangers are. And he does it at least two or three times a session.
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The next guy is a bit worse, though. I was playing in a D&D 3E campaign with the aforementioned "We Are All Going To Die" fellow as the DM (actually, he isn't bad at all when he's at the head of the table, so it was ok). But no, the real problem individual was this guy who was a mutual friend of his. Not only was this guy the ultimate smug asshole, but he was also was playing politics to so that he could PK other players he didn't like (namely me and two other people). Keep in mind he had to go the political route because the DM set up the "PK = illegal" ruling.
But that wasn't the guy's main problem. The really annoying bit was when he brought over his (non-gamer) girlfriend over for a session. Half the time they were slobbering over each other (I mean, to the point where you just want them to get a room), and the other half of the time (when he was ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME) she whined incessantly. But that wasn't the worst part. No, the worst part was that he shouldn't have had anything to do with her in the first place, because he was already married with two children!
When news of that last little bit of info reached the players, that campaign pretty much died. Actually, I think that was the last session of that campaign we all had together.
Critias
Oct 23 2006, 08:07 PM
QUOTE (James McMurray) |
She wasn't a gamer, but the guys in my group (not me) were there when the girlfriend of the guy whose house they were gaming at blew her head off in the other room. |
Nice post, Buzzkill.
hyzmarca
Oct 23 2006, 08:17 PM
So wy would his being married make the game die? I'd think that it would make the game that much more fun. Either he had an open marriage or he was cheating. If it was the former maybe he'd hook his gamer friends up with his wife. If it was the latter then, well, we can assume that he isn't just going to kill everyone who knows about the affair so you could have used it to yank him around just a little.
Personally, I've never gamed with anyone who was insane (except possibly myself) but there was this one dude in Air Force basic training who liked to mix his fanciful neo-paganism with extreme evangelical christianity. The result was some rather amusing rants about about how to perform certain magical rituals and how to summon faries as well as explict details and clairfications about the end of the world as presented in Revelations.
He provided some relief from the tedium. Unsurprisingly, he was kicked out for failing a drug test.
emo samurai
Oct 23 2006, 08:36 PM
Hyzmarca, your official alignment is "Lawful Amoral."
LordHaHa
Oct 23 2006, 09:06 PM
QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
So wy would his being married make the game die? I'd think that it would make the game that much more fun. Either he had an open marriage or he was cheating. If it was the former maybe he'd hook his gamer friends up with his wife. If it was the latter then, well, we can assume that he isn't just going to kill everyone who knows about the affair so you could have used it to yank him around just a little. |
He was cheating, and I just wouldn't have done that.
The thing is, the many players wern't 100% of what the situation was. Half of the group didn't even want to knowingly be within 100 ft. of the guy when they found out. I did have some idea of what was going on before hand, but I kept quiet because I don't get into people's personal business unless they want to flaunt it in my face - in other words, I could work professionally with him. He did flaunt it, and I decided to not have anything to do with this guy rather than play with him. So I went with the other two guys who quit. Three guys out of a five player D&D campaign with no chance for replacements = dead (or at least an "on life support") campaign.
Bear in mind that the story with him and the DM went on to another stage that was particularly bad, but that story isn't for meant public consumption.
blakkie
Oct 23 2006, 10:13 PM
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
Bear in mind that the story with him and the DM went on to another stage that was particularly bad, but that story isn't for meant public consumption. |
So now you HAVE to tell, tease.
PBTHHHHT
Oct 23 2006, 10:19 PM
Aye, when you throw a bone like that, you actually want to tell the story. Just change the names, etc... Plus, after reading the crazy players in the rgp.net forum thread, c'mon it can't be worse... can it? If so, then you gotta tell us, if not, it doesn't matter since there're worse stories out there. In summary, just tell us.
James McMurray
Oct 23 2006, 11:16 PM
I personally have been pretty lucky as far as gaming with weirdos goes. Perhaps it's because I'm a lunatic myself, but I'm pretty good as sizing up someone's looniness early on, and I just avoid gaming with the ones I wouldn't want to hang around with.
Dog
Oct 23 2006, 11:20 PM
One player I knew was dumped by his girlfriend, and acted like he was the first person in the world that ever happened to. In real life, he was indifferent to all females. In game, he managed to berate every female character and look for opportunities to be violent towards them.
This same guy looked down on anyone who wasn't a university grad (like yours truly.) If I argued with him about anything, like maybe I happened to read something in a book that he hadn't heard of, he'd angrily truck out the "I'm right because I have a degree and you don't" argument.
This guy was a hardcore student, studied more than anyone I know. Wanted to be a doctor. Constantly said that he wanted to specialize in toxins so that he could one day poison "everybody." Smart enough to do it, but after passing his med-school entrance exams, he flunked out of the interview because he "lacks empathy."
What a relief.
Last I heard, he was shooting for dentistry school.
(Hey, the good news is nobody's mentioned me yet!)
LordHaHa
Oct 23 2006, 11:24 PM
Well, let me say this. It involves an insane female who is well known to (and despised by) my group of friends. The non-moral player is indirectly responsible for causing her to get pregnant by discouraging the female to stop taking certain medications that prevent that condition. She wished to do so because she equated a child with profit (via the support of a husband or though the courts).
This was done without informing her male partner (who the other player in my previous post). And the only reason said male is not a father at the moment is because of a chance incident, that of a miscarrage. The other male was in the dark about it until that point.
Do the math.
LordHaHa
Oct 23 2006, 11:35 PM
QUOTE (Dog) |
Last I heard, he was shooting for dentistry school. |
Jesus. If you happen find out where this psycho gets employed (if he does), shout it out. I'd hate to have the nickname of "Gummy".
PBTHHHHT
Oct 23 2006, 11:52 PM
I remember catching a terrible horror movie on HBO called the Dentist or something like that. A dentist who snaps and well...
hyzmarca
Oct 23 2006, 11:58 PM
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
Well, let me say this. It involves an insane female who is well known to (and despised by) my group of friends and a chance miscarrage. And the non-moral player is indirectly responsible for said pregnancy occuring by discouraging the female to stop taking certain medications that prevent that condition. And they did so without informing her male partner (who, as previously mentioned, is not the non-moral player). And the only reason said male is not a father at the moment is because of the chance incident, because as mentioned previously, he was in the dark about it.
Do the math. |
That is the most confusing explination ever.
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 12:21 AM
QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Oct 23 2006, 06:58 PM) |
That is the most confusing explination ever. |
Look, it's a sensitive issue and I don't like airing dirty laundry to the whole world. The statement may not be easy to understand, but it's as clear as I want to make it. If you read it carefully, it should make sense. I did leave out something in regards to it, so it will be edited for clairfication.
Fortune
Oct 24 2006, 12:30 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see the big issue about someone in the group cheating on his spouse, or some dude getting someone else pregnant. If it ain't your wife (or girlfriend or sister), why should it affect you as much as it seems to be doing? Why would this kind of thing alone be the cause of a game breaking down. I certainly don't agree with every single life choice all of my friends make, but they are still my friends.
emo samurai
Oct 24 2006, 12:54 AM
He's a meddler. Watch him meddle.
hyzmarca
Oct 24 2006, 01:00 AM
QUOTE (LordHaHa @ Oct 23 2006, 07:21 PM) |
QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Oct 23 2006, 06:58 PM) | That is the most confusing explination ever. |
Look, it's a sensitive issue and I don't like airing dirty laundry to the whole world. The statement may not be easy to understand, but it's as clear as I want to make it. If you read it carefully, it should make sense. I did leave out something in regards to it, so it will be edited for clairfication.
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Actually, I was mostly refering to the double negative. "Discouraged her to stop" means the opposite of what you intended.
Personally, I wouldn't have have problem with an insane girlfriend intentionally getting pregnant to force me to pay child support. Some guys would, I'm sure, but I have a hard time putting myself into their shoes. I'd like to have kids sometime and I can be a real bastard when I want to be.
You see, the thing about child support payments is that they belong to the child. In this the legal guardian serves as the child's proxy because minors are not competent under the law to receive or manage these monies. However, they are most certainly the child's monies and they are to be spent in the child's name on things that benefit the child. If she spends child support payments on herself then she is guilty of embezzelment. If she uses a bank, credit card, money order, wire transfer service, or the US postal service at any point during these transactions then it is a federal crime.
Now, single mothers are rarely charged with embezzelment in connection with the mismanagment of child support payments, but it is enough to screw up six ways to sunday. All it takes is one phone call to the aproperiate social welfare agency, one custody suit, and one lawsuit filed on behalf of the child for the mismanaged funds. If she doesn't have a clear paper trail accounting for every cent she is in trouble and will probably lose custody. If they is a paper trail that suggests mismanagment then she will have to pay back the child support in full and she would lose custody and she might spend some time in jail.
And, of course, when she loses custod she'd have to make child support payments, herself.
All you have to do is give them a little rope and they will hang themselves.
Taran
Oct 24 2006, 01:09 AM
I've only ever gamed with one batshit lunatic, and he never did anything grossly crazy while I was around. Let's call him Remus.
I met Remus in high school. He was a year ahead of hem. He had a lot going for him - funny, charismatic, great artist, but he was evil and enjoyed suffering, and almost everyone in his class had learned to avoid him. He had a girlfriend, a social misfit who nevertheless could have done better, but he was an abuser and she was an abusee, so they fit together very naturally.
He started out as a player in my game. That was fine; he was a bit of an attention whore and he had a strange fondness for animal characters, but I liked him and overlooked his little quirks. He tried starting his own game opposite mine, and I played in it, but it foundered - he'd taught himself to GM and he wasn't very good. It might have died, but I switched high schools around then, leaving Remus the only game master in our 300-person high school.
Half my group bailed out of Remus' game. Reports from the half that stayed are fragmentary, contradictory, and deeply weird. One witness reports playing Remus' homebrew RPG while participating in a gay orgy. Another denies the orgy, but claims they roleplayed in-game sex between animal characters. Everyone agrees that there was lots of pot involved, delivered by Remus' many creepy relatives.
After high school, external pressures broke up the group. Most of my friends moved on and acquired grown-up hobbies; they might reminisce about Durik Dragonforge and the Ten Swords of Power in private, but they'd never admit it to their banker friends. I run one Shadowrun game and play in another. And Remus? He and his lover moderate a mailing list dedicated to the exchange of gay furry muscle erotica. His art is some of the best on the list, and he gets the respect he always craved. Happy endings for everybody.
Fortune: It's not just some dude getting another girl pregnant, it's actually a bit weirder than that. Here's my parse of LordHaHa's explanation:
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
Well, let me say this. It involves an insane female who is well known to (and despised by) my group of friends and a chance miscarrage. |
There's a crazy lady and a miscarriage. Remember the miscarriage, it'll be important in a few sentences. Also, the crazy lady has a boyfriend.
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
And the non-moral player is indirectly responsible for said pregnancy occuring by discouraging the female to stop taking certain medications that prevent that condition. |
Some asshole RPG player that LordHaHa knows told the crazy lady to stop taking the pill, and she did...
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
And they did so without informing her male partner (who, as previously mentioned, is not the non-moral player). |
...but nobody told her boyfriend, who got her pregnant by accident. Accidentally on his part, at any rate.
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
And the only reason said male is not a father at the moment is because of the chance incident, because as mentioned previously, he was in the dark about it. |
But she miscarried, so everything's ok, sort of.
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 01:09 AM
QUOTE (Fortune) |
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see the big issue about someone in the group cheating on his spouse, or some dude getting someone else pregnant. If it ain't your wife (or girlfriend or sister), why should it affect you as much as it seems to be doing? Why would this kind of thing alone be the cause of a game breaking down. I certainly don't agree with every single life choice all of my friends make, but they are still my friends. |
Sir, there are more important things in life than gaming, even Shadowrun. One of them is my friends and my family. All of my friends, some of which are moral black-and-whiters and others who see shades of gray, have been disgusted by these actions (which I personally consider to be evil, if anything is) by that woman and that man. Yeah, they don't affect me personally. But I happen to believe that if some malicious affliction befalls people I know and love and put my trust in, that I should put them ahead of the game.
I do agree with you that personal problems should not affect gaming, and even though there are some background issues in my group for the most part our games are problem-free. But when horrible actions occur to people in such a brazen fashion they can't help but to affect the game, that is where it crosses the line.
My 2
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Oh, and one more clarification. This loser was never in my campaign. I only said that I met him in one of my player's campaigns. So technicaly, I had no real say on the matter whatsoever. The only think I could do was vote with my feet.
Now, enough drama and ranting! Surely these aren't the only..uh..unique...players in the world. Any other stories?
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 01:10 AM
QUOTE (Taran) |
Fortune: It's not just some dude getting another girl pregnant, it's actually a bit weirder than that. Here's my parse of LordHaHa's explanation:
QUOTE (LordHaHa) | Well, let me say this. It involves an insane female who is well known to (and despised by) my group of friends and a chance miscarrage. |
There's a crazy lady and a miscarriage. Remember the miscarriage, it'll be important in a few sentences. Also, the crazy lady has a boyfriend.
QUOTE (LordHaHa) | And the non-moral player is indirectly responsible for said pregnancy occuring by discouraging the female to stop taking certain medications that prevent that condition. |
Some asshole RPG player that LordHaHa knows told the crazy lady to stop taking the pill, and she did...
QUOTE (LordHaHa) | And they did so without informing her male partner (who, as previously mentioned, is not the non-moral player). |
...but nobody told her boyfriend, who got her pregnant by accident. Accidentally on his part, at any rate.
QUOTE (LordHaHa) | And the only reason said male is not a father at the moment is because of the chance incident, because as mentioned previously, he was in the dark about it. |
But she miscarried, so everything's ok, sort of. |
That's basically it, yes.
Fortune
Oct 24 2006, 01:11 AM
So?
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 01:22 AM
That's it. I am done with this line of the coversation. There is zero point, and I am not going to start throwing around Molotov cocktails.
Jack Kain
Oct 24 2006, 01:33 AM
Can we please get back to dysfunctional players.
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 01:36 AM
Yes, please!
hyzmarca
Oct 24 2006, 02:11 AM
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
That's it. I am done with this line of the coversation. There is zero point, and I am not going to start throwing around Molotov cocktails. |
But gossiping is fun and, besides, it isn't like it was anything that bad. It wasn't like he was LARPing Silence of the Lambs in an authentic girl-suit.
Fortune
Oct 24 2006, 02:16 AM
QUOTE (LordHaHa) |
That's it. I am done with this line of the coversation. There is zero point, and I am not going to start throwing around Molotov cocktails. |
Right back at you.
I asked a legitimate question, but did not pry into your personal life.
Sahandrian
Oct 24 2006, 03:12 AM
My summer SR game included a pedophile and a sociopath among the players. But the pedo only had dice flung at him for watching child porn on his laptop during the game a few times, and the sociopath only stabbed one other person.
There was also the 350 lb hairy guy who happened to be a flamboyant homosexual.
And then I never exactly got the details, but after being dragged out of his house and held at gunpoint by the police, one of the players left home and moved in with one of the others...
Oh, and there was the pyro. She only started fires in my driveway twice, though. After that I hid the lighters.
Then you had moments like one of the players tackling another to the floor and dry-humping him until he almost cried. Note, this didn't include the flamboyant gay one in any way.
Then the time we had one player lying on the floor, half-conscious, rambling about the apocalypse and robots for about an hour.
And the in-game gems like "I'm sonna take a shit in the unconscious guard's mouth. I'm a troll, so it'll probably rip his throat open and kill him." And the reply, "Nah, but he'd probably suffocate."
And then one character jacking off on another while yelling "Oh Asuka! Call me stupid like you always do!" I think that's about the same time as the humping incident.
And the mage who collected bodies. And the shaman who painted his room with blood, and collecting ritual samples from the entire team. And the troll running a prostitution ring.
And then the random quotes.
"That was the most hardcore thing ever. Hardcore like punching a dragon in the fire gland so that it's head explodes."
"SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM, YOU STUPID SHIT. SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD."
Mr. Man
Oct 24 2006, 03:19 AM
To save a lot of time for those who might not want to read through all 3662 posts:
This message is the winner of that RPG.net thread (at least as far as I'm concerned).
Guy who swears he's half-vampire? Big deal, every town has at least one of those guys (seriously, I know of one in mine). There's even enough of these fruits to warrant
personal ads on the internets.
But how many people can say they've gamed with a genuine brazillian police death squad?
Fortune
Oct 24 2006, 03:25 AM
QUOTE (Sahandrian @ Oct 24 2006, 01:12 PM) |
My summer SR game included a pedophile and a sociopath among the players. But the pedo only had dice flung at him for watching child porn on his laptop during the game a few times, and the sociopath only stabbed one other person. |
This I consider a much bigger moral issue than worrying about whether one of my friends is banging someone else's wife.
Sahandrian
Oct 24 2006, 03:30 AM
QUOTE (Fortune @ Oct 23 2006, 11:25 PM) |
QUOTE (Sahandrian @ Oct 24 2006, 01:12 PM) | My summer SR game included a pedophile and a sociopath among the players. But the pedo only had dice flung at him for watching child porn on his laptop during the game a few times, and the sociopath only stabbed one other person. |
This I consider a much bigger moral issue than worrying about whether one of my friends is banging someone else's wife.
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Indeed. I'll add in my defense that the dice I throw are those 5-lb 20-sided life counters from Magic.
He eventually learned to keep such things in his bedroom and never speak about them in public.
Usually.
WhiskeyMac
Oct 24 2006, 03:31 AM
Yeah, I'd definitely beat severely the child porn watcher. Probably laugh hysterically at the dry-humping session though. Pyro chick would definitely get a few extra XP in my book. Gotta love those fire-starters.
BrianL03
Oct 24 2006, 03:43 AM
QUOTE (Sahandrian) |
And then one character jacking off on another while yelling "Oh Asuka! Call me stupid like you always do!" |
Sad thing is, I get that reference 100%.
hyzmarca
Oct 24 2006, 03:54 AM
QUOTE (Mr. Man) |
To save a lot of time for those who might not want to read through all 3662 posts: This message is the winner of that RPG.net thread (at least as far as I'm concerned). |
I'd love to GM for those guys. Guns and whores and OOC murder stories just make a street-level SR game that much more authentic.
Sahandrian, players shouldn't be allowed Laptops. Laptops are for the GMs. Players get illegible 300th generation xeroxed character sheets; without enough space for knowledge skills, contact backgrounds, or equipment; and a pen to fill them in with.
Sahandrian
Oct 24 2006, 04:10 AM
QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
Sahandrian, players shouldn't be allowed Laptops. Laptops are for the GMs. Players get illegible 300th generation xeroxed character sheets; without enough space for knowledge skills, contact backgrounds, or equipment; and a pen to fill them in with. |
He's the only one. We tried it without his computer a few times.
The guy needs the dice roller from NSRCG to play, unless we want to figure out how all his rolls add up for him. And he always loses paper sheets between sessions. It wound up being less of a headache in the long run to just have him update everything in NSRCG and use the dice roller.
LordHaHa
Oct 24 2006, 04:34 AM
QUOTE (Sahandrian @ Oct 23 2006, 10:12 PM) |
My summer SR game included a pedophile and a sociopath among the players. But the pedo only had dice flung at him for watching child porn on his laptop during the game a few times, and the sociopath only stabbed one other person.
There was also the 350 lb hairy guy who happened to be a flamboyant homosexual.
And then I never exactly got the details, but after being dragged out of his house and held at gunpoint by the police, one of the players left home and moved in with one of the others...
Oh, and there was the pyro. She only started fires in my driveway twice, though. After that I hid the lighters.
Then you had moments like one of the players tackling another to the floor and dry-humping him until he almost cried. Note, this didn't include the flamboyant gay one in any way.
*etc., snip* |
You know, this group sounds like it would be the perfect entry for Threats 3, if they ever put another one out.
emo samurai
Oct 24 2006, 05:05 AM
Is there a power word to summon those players of yours from the depths of Hell, Sahandrian? It would be fun to threaten my dysfunctional players with them.
And the "Asuka" thing is from Evangelion. I have no idea why he chose then to masturbate to her...
Oh, and ESP man? He thinks he has nanobots that make it so that it doesn't hurt if he pounds his leg. And that he can slow down time so he can move fast, never mind that I can easily move faster. And that "black ops" follows him around because he tested well... And on, and on, and on.