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<blockquote data-quote="eris404" data-source="post: 1782168" data-attributes="member: 5338"><p>Unfortunately, yes. We were playing Fading Suns. No matter what our party did, the NPCs were always stronger, more powerful, more intelligent and better equipped. We were supposed to be solving a mystery, but every time we found a clue, a witness, a suspect, it would disappear, be destroyed, get away, whatever. What started as challenging became impossible and hopeless as our every plan was thwarted completely, usually leaving us running for our lives and freedom from some overwhelming force. Towards the end, we started just doing inane things because we had no idea what to do. Finally, the GM just had a computer figure out and tell us who did it. After that, I took the cowards way out and stopped showing up. The game fell apart a few sessions later; another GM decided to run a new game and everyone got excited about it and left the FS game in the dust.</p><p></p><p>My advice to someone who wants to bench a GM is: come out and tell him to his face. It's difficult to do and there might be some hurt feelings, but it's much better than just leaving the person hanging or suffering through an activity that supposed to be fun. I still have guilty feelings about that game and wish I had been mature enough to talk it through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eris404, post: 1782168, member: 5338"] Unfortunately, yes. We were playing Fading Suns. No matter what our party did, the NPCs were always stronger, more powerful, more intelligent and better equipped. We were supposed to be solving a mystery, but every time we found a clue, a witness, a suspect, it would disappear, be destroyed, get away, whatever. What started as challenging became impossible and hopeless as our every plan was thwarted completely, usually leaving us running for our lives and freedom from some overwhelming force. Towards the end, we started just doing inane things because we had no idea what to do. Finally, the GM just had a computer figure out and tell us who did it. After that, I took the cowards way out and stopped showing up. The game fell apart a few sessions later; another GM decided to run a new game and everyone got excited about it and left the FS game in the dust. My advice to someone who wants to bench a GM is: come out and tell him to his face. It's difficult to do and there might be some hurt feelings, but it's much better than just leaving the person hanging or suffering through an activity that supposed to be fun. I still have guilty feelings about that game and wish I had been mature enough to talk it through. [/QUOTE]
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