BadWrongFun: how far is too far??

[Dungeoneer]

Humor thread or not, I'd call all of these examples "play style" in the same way if you played Russian Roulette with live ammo.

(Cue Dr. Who "Weakest Link" video clip)

If you know of another way to play Russian Roulette, I'd love to hear it! Attendance at our Tuesday night game is getting thin.

 

[Dungeoneer]

As for killing and eating endangered species, what if the goal of the campaign is to drive a species to extinction?

So you're the guy whose Shadowrun campaign wiped out the Dodos??

 

[the Jester]

So you're the guy whose Shadowrun campaign wiped out the Dodos??

No, but one of my friends ran a campaign in which gnomes were driven to extinction.

 

[Dungeoneer]

No, but one of my friends ran a campaign in which gnomes were driven to extinction.

That sounds like my kind of campaign!

 

[the Jester]

That sounds like my kind of campaign!

The same organization that was behind GEM (the Gnome Eradication Movement) then went on to found DAM (the Dakon Annihilation Movement). Damn racists.

 

[Starfox]

When a GM or group does things that would break my real-life morality, I consider them wrong. My rl morality is pretty flexible. But anything that breaks the law is pretty much beyond the line. This has nothing to do with the fact that it is a game.

 

[Lanefan]

I don't find it problematic for the DM to say what you can play; it's when the DM asserts control over a pc, e.g. "Your character wouldn't do that" type things.

But even there it isn't cut-and-dried; look at 1e's RAW alignment system where the game itself said "Your character wouldn't do that" and if you went ahead and did it anyway there were some pretty severe in-game consequences.

Lanefan

 

[Oryan77]

Ah man, I was taking this thread seriously up until the examples in the OP. I was really looking forward to reading serious examples of badwrongfun. I thought I was about to both learn something and get some good chuckles. It is always refreshing to hear the crap that goes on in other groups. Hearing a horror story that you can't imagine actually being true, but it is, really makes me appreciate the group that I have or have had.

Anyone have some real examples to throw up? Or am I being a buzzkill? I'm only asking because I think the real examples would be much funnier (or more entertaining) to read than the tongue-n-cheek ones.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I don't like it when the DM chains us to the locomotive and drags us down the tracks.

I don't like to met with a tableau of blank stares when I lay out ample adventure hooks tied to key pieces the players have said they are actively looking into.

 

[Agamon]

When a GM or group does things that would break my real-life morality, I consider them wrong. My rl morality is pretty flexible. But anything that breaks the law is pretty much beyond the line. This has nothing to do with the fact that it is a game.

Agreed. If my players were to show up at the game in ski masks carrying big bags of money, I'd certainly cancel the game. Nothing kills a game like cops showing up at the door.