I quit 4e-DM after my first day.

[Rechan]

You may laugh now, but my players wouldn't dare create chaotic evil PCs and then go on a rampage. I'm surprised nobody offered this advice sooner

DM: "You burst into the duke's inner sanctum. He drops his implements and lifts his hands. 'I surrender!'"
PC: "Sorry duke. We're not interested in parlay."
DM: *sniff*
PC: "OK OK, I ask the Duke what he'll give us for allowing him to surrender.
DM: *eyetwitch* Where's the tissues?
PC: "OH GOD NO"

 

[Vorput]

As soon as he got to the dragonborn starting to eat people I came to the conclusion that this was a troll; both the story and the idea of blaming the game for this struck me as too absurd to take seriously. In particular, he explicitly says they've played together before, at least twice (since there were two different editions involved), presumably without such a result or he would have mentioned it. Does it make sense to anyone that he would then turn around and quit the game over something like this?

It distresses me to see so many people, including familiar names I know to be generally intelligent, take this story at face value when it seems so clearly the sort of thing one posts just to get a reaction.

Yeah, ENworld has made me too trusting. This is almost certainly a troll post, yet because its ENworld- I trust it. Any other forum I know of I'd have just ignored this.

So this is either a compliment to the ENworld boards, or a confession of my own naivety.

 

[Dark Mistress]

As soon as he got to the dragonborn starting to eat people I came to the conclusion that this was a troll; both the story and the idea of blaming the game for this struck me as too absurd to take seriously. In particular, he explicitly says they've played together before, at least twice (since there were two different editions involved), presumably without such a result or he would have mentioned it. Does it make sense to anyone that he would then turn around and quit the game over something like this?

It distresses me to see so many people, including familiar names I know to be generally intelligent, take this story at face value when it seems so clearly the sort of thing one posts just to get a reaction.

Well I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt. Since it cost me nothing to do so, beyond a few minutes spent responding. So while agree it seems weird, I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt until he proves to me he doesn't deserve it. *shrug* I mean you might be right or maybe not.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I personally find it annoying when people jump on a post and call it a troll post. Maybe they are right, but if other people have put up multiple responses, then it is going somewhere, unless every other post is "reported".

 

[Celebrim]

I personally find it annoying when people jump on a post and call it a troll post. Maybe they are right, but if other people have put up multiple responses, then it is going somewhere, unless every other post is "reported".

It's like calling 'fake' at every youtube video. You are bound to be right some of the time, but there are worse things that being duped a few times. You have to risk being taken in. What's the worst that can happen, really?

 

[Mikaze]

It's like calling 'fake' at every youtube video. You are bound to be right some of the time, but there are worse things that being duped a few times. You have to risk being taken in. What's the worst that can happen, really?

Being wrong on the internet.

If that is not too high a price, what is?

 

[Vorput]

It's like calling 'fake' at every youtube video. You are bound to be right some of the time, but there are worse things that being duped a few times. You have to risk being taken in. What's the worst that can happen, really?

Well, the son of the deposed king of Nigeria sent me an e-mail asking for money once...

 

[Plane Sailing]

Yeah, ENworld has made me too trusting. This is almost certainly a troll post, yet because its ENworld- I trust it.

Calling something a troll post is already pretty rude. Doing so after someone has come back into the thread and said that they are not trolling and given extra examples (even though they don't have to) is even ruder.

If you think something really is a troll, report it. If you trust it (and I'm glad that you normally trust things on ENworld, it says a lot for our community) then don't say anything about trollish posting.

Thanks

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

You have to risk being taken in. What's the worst that can happen, really?

You can believe Mila Jovovich when she tells you that the actual audio and video recordings in The Fourth Kind are real and believe in alien abduction by the end of the movie.

 

[Scribble]

Sorry, my brain couldn't get past thinking about Mila Jovovic, and....

err sorry what were we talking about?