Annoying Player HORROR STORIES!!!!

[Raven Crowking]

I've had players that didn't fit, and who were therefore either not invited back, or who self-selected not to return, but I can't recall any actual HORROR stories.

As a GM, I have always said (and maintain) that if anything ever got to the point where I pointed out the door to a player, it would not be in a "if you don't like it, there's the door" way, but in a "there's the door; use it" way, I can't recall ever having to do so in over 30 years of gaming.

Perhaps I have been luckier than most.

 

[jasper]

G and S to use their initials. They were next door neighbors and good friends to each other. Until they sat down to any game table to include Uno. Their in game and out game arguments would slow the games down by 1/3. Now if either G or S sat down alone with us the group could clear out a level or two that night.

Various cheaters. The lousiest would cup his hand around his die roll when was bad and call a hit. ( I generally name the to hit AC) . When extra damage, hints, and suggestions of allowing me to see the die roll went unnoticed. No more invitations were sent out to him.

Various thieves. REAL ONES. Once I figure out the light finger ones I would not allow at the table. This was when I was gaming in community centers and the like. I am still missing modules, dice, figs, and Dragon mags.

 

[cyderak]

Last night I watched the "Comedy Central's Roast of Larry the Cable Guy" and I could'nt help but think back to the days of the "Rat Pack" roasts and how they could tell a funny story or pick on each other without getting all up-at-arms about comments. Those were the days when people could take a joke. These days you have to watch every word you say to the point where its almost better to text someone because of the fact that you can backspace any potentially offensive words that might offend someone.

I've heard many people say it.......comedians, news anchors, musicians,......

Learn how to laugh and the rest will follow.....including the demise of sensativity.

 

[billd91]

Last night I watched the "Comedy Central's Roast of Larry the Cable Guy" and I could'nt help but think back to the days of the "Rat Pack" roasts and how they could tell a funny story or pick on each other without getting all up-at-arms about comments. Those were the days when people could take a joke. These days you have to watch every word you say to the point where its almost better to text someone because of the fact that you can backspace any potentially offensive words that might offend someone.

I've heard many people say it.......comedians, news anchors, musicians,......

Learn how to laugh and the rest will follow.....including the demise of sensativity.

Celebrity roasts can be a little more sensitive than that. They actually should be handled fairly carefully. Paul Shaffer's memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, includes his take on them - they should come when the target's career and life are going well and they should be private because that's why someone can take the jokes (which can be pretty harsh). Pick the wrong time and make them too public and it's humiliating. He holds up a Chevy Chase roast as an example of one given inappropriately.

 

[Lord Ipplepop]

Every group I have been in screened their players as much as possible, and made it a regulation that you had to be invited by a player who put his name to you before you were permitted to sit at the table... that gave us a bit of control over who played.
ONE TIME, however, during my 1ed days...

This guy was a decent enough guy away from the table. He was likable enough, and was easy to hang out. He laughed easily and often, was willing to help everyone out in a spot, and was good for a practical joke, or if you needed an ear for a personal matter.
Once he got to the table, though...

He had a photographic memory, and would spout book, chapter, page and verse if anything went a little against the books. Rules lawyers were telling him to chill...
We were also using miniatures, and he would make statements such as, "Move that f* b* over there behind the Beholder so I can back stab him," or "As I am CN, I think I will rape that F* B* over there that turned me down," or worse.
EVentually, we told him we stopped having games due to work schedules, and moved the table to another's house.

We also had another who was continually back stabbing party members...
After a month long suspension, we allowed him back in the group... but not as a thief

 

[Scott DeWar]

There is so much to respond to, but in the intrest of the OP being commented on, here is my Horror story.

We have a player who was raised with a parent that could have been , . . .better. That is the best way to put it. This guy has a very low self esteem, but worse, when he reads something it seems to get convaluted in his mind and is presented in a rules lawyer way and not in the spirit of what the rule was to begin with. Once his mind is set on that mental mold of his he would not deter from it. He also mixes editions rules, such as 2.x acrobatics to stand up, vs 3.x acrobatics (pathfinder, specific) that does not alow it.

He wants to apply real life to the rule and the rules all ahve specific ways of standing and the consequenses thereof. These arguments he starts can totaly hijack a whole gaming session and left combat sequences unresolved even. We let him play only because he has so greatly improved and we hope the best for him!

 

[cyderak]

Celebrity roasts can be a little more sensitive than that. They actually should be handled fairly carefully. Paul Shaffer's memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, includes his take on them - they should come when the target's career and life are going well and they should be private because that's why someone can take the jokes (which can be pretty harsh). Pick the wrong time and make them too public and it's humiliating. He holds up a Chevy Chase roast as an example of one given inappropriately.

Wow, someone who read Paul Shaffer's memoir?........Now theres a good example of ribbing......I just used the roast as an example.......obviously your going to have people who are just being a dick. But if people are just kidding and joking around then my advice would be to take it as just that......a joke.

 

[Hungry Like The Wolf]

Last night I watched the "Comedy Central's Roast of Larry the Cable Guy" and I could'nt help but think back to the days of the "Rat Pack" roasts and how they could tell a funny story or pick on each other without getting all up-at-arms about comments. Those were the days when people could take a joke. These days you have to watch every word you say to the point where its almost better to text someone because of the fact that you can backspace any potentially offensive words that might offend someone.

I've heard many people say it.......comedians, news anchors, musicians,......

Learn how to laugh and the rest will follow.....including the demise of sensativity.

I totally reject this logic. If you're going to be offensive, ignorant, creepy or bigoted then don't be a coward and hide behind humour. There is nothing humerous about something designed to belittle and demean others based on traits they have no control over.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Easy here guys. I have been on live stage theater and let me tell you, sensitivity really needs to go right out the window. There are so many 'behind the scenes' pranks that went on, I can't even begin to tell them. Some even backfired a bit.

Of course the funniest things were the times when something went horribly wrong and it was not planned at all. Oh, those were the days.

 

[cyderak]

I totally reject this logic. If you're going to be offensive, ignorant, creepy or bigoted then don't be a coward and hide behind humour. There is nothing humerous about something designed to belittle and demean others based on traits they have no control over.

I'm just gonna let you win on this matter because of the simple fact that I don't want this thread to turn into one huge argument.

You win........Your right...........

Now.......with that out of the way.....lets hear more Horror Stories.