Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
you are the evils. We likes how you thinks.
Annoying Player HORROR STORIES!!!!
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you are the evils. We likes how you thinks.
Its going to take some heavy grade sandpaper to get that mental image scrubbed from my mind. Damn my imagination.
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Two Words.......Spray Bottle!!
Hey......theres a certain level of persistance required to keep your OCD from escalating to a 3 or 4 dice bag system.
Well, we finally did break him of that habit. He then started to use a giant (1-gallon) plastic Big Gulp cup as a dice cup. He would put his single die inside, hold the cup with two hands and swirl it around for several seconds, then dump it out on the table from a height of 2 feet.
He wasn't joking around for either of these behaviors--he was serious about it.
I guess that was just how he rolled...
Wik
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Man, I have had so many experiences with absolute LOSERS.
There was the guy who can't stop making awful puns. We'll be playing a perfectly serious scene, and he'll break the moment with a monty python-esque pun, and everyone will groan. The moment was just thrown out the window. This is also the guy who made it a habit to order curry right before the game started. Grr.
There was his wife, who had an alarming tendency to roll "Crits" in boss fights. Of course, she took every feat possible to expand her crit range, but hardly a fight goes by where she doesn't crit at least twice. I'd almost accuse her of cheating, but they were open rolls - she has the luck of the irish. Beyond that, she wasn't that bad, although she gets cranky when she hasn't eaten much. Which tends to lead to two orders of curry, instead of just one. Lovely.
Then there's the guy who would play a wizard, and then spend half the session nose-deep in a gaming book. Sure, he was an attentive player, fun, and engaged... but he once insisted an NPC of mine adopt a "pirate voice", to the point where he threatened me. So I had a pirate NPC - "Yarr!" and "Walk the plank, matey!" and all that crap. It was so... shameful. Plus, when that other player would order the curry, about half the time this player would "go in on that", so there'd be THREE orders of curry. And this player only ever eats indian food at my place - he's never had it anywhere else! Do you KNOW how annoying it is to describe a fight with skeletons, only to have it interrupted with "Hey, what's this thing that looks like a donut?"
Then there was the "happy to be here" player who created PCs that had an ALARMING TENDENCY TO NOT DIE. I mean, I game because I like killing characters. And this woman had the GALL to not let her PCs die. For shame!
And finally, there was the jackass who has been taunting me, annoying me, and doing everything he can to make my life miserable. He's been doing this for twenty-one years - literally since the day he was born. My brother annoys the hell out of me.
Who are these five? They're the jerks I'm stuck gaming with every friggin' week.
And I'm glad I'm stuck with 'em.
There was the guy who can't stop making awful puns. We'll be playing a perfectly serious scene, and he'll break the moment with a monty python-esque pun, and everyone will groan. The moment was just thrown out the window. This is also the guy who made it a habit to order curry right before the game started. Grr.
There was his wife, who had an alarming tendency to roll "Crits" in boss fights. Of course, she took every feat possible to expand her crit range, but hardly a fight goes by where she doesn't crit at least twice. I'd almost accuse her of cheating, but they were open rolls - she has the luck of the irish. Beyond that, she wasn't that bad, although she gets cranky when she hasn't eaten much. Which tends to lead to two orders of curry, instead of just one. Lovely.
Then there's the guy who would play a wizard, and then spend half the session nose-deep in a gaming book. Sure, he was an attentive player, fun, and engaged... but he once insisted an NPC of mine adopt a "pirate voice", to the point where he threatened me. So I had a pirate NPC - "Yarr!" and "Walk the plank, matey!" and all that crap. It was so... shameful. Plus, when that other player would order the curry, about half the time this player would "go in on that", so there'd be THREE orders of curry. And this player only ever eats indian food at my place - he's never had it anywhere else! Do you KNOW how annoying it is to describe a fight with skeletons, only to have it interrupted with "Hey, what's this thing that looks like a donut?"
Then there was the "happy to be here" player who created PCs that had an ALARMING TENDENCY TO NOT DIE. I mean, I game because I like killing characters. And this woman had the GALL to not let her PCs die. For shame!
And finally, there was the jackass who has been taunting me, annoying me, and doing everything he can to make my life miserable. He's been doing this for twenty-one years - literally since the day he was born. My brother annoys the hell out of me.
Who are these five? They're the jerks I'm stuck gaming with every friggin' week.
And I'm glad I'm stuck with 'em.
No pun intended right.....
Man this is triggering some strong, old memories of Louie Anderson's comedy routine about how he though Michael Keaton was a weird choice for playing Batman. (That tells you how old this memory is!)
Louie said he thought they should have cast that guy on Fantasy Island, you know, Tattoo... Herve Villechaize! He could just see him running around screeching "I EM THE BETMEN!"
What a mental picture! And I mean REALLY mental!
Lord Ipplepop
Explorer
Two Words.......Spray Bottle!!
Hey......theres a certain level of persistance required to keep your OCD from escalating to a 3 or 4 dice bag system.
As far as quirky behavior goes, I have a buddy who places all his dice with like dice and placed on the highest number on the dice.
He calls it "CHARGING" his dice. As far as superstition goes its pretty harmless and a little contagious.
I now "Charge" my main D20.......DON'T JUDGE ME!!!
Many players have their own little superstisions, like this.
When I first started playing D&D (back when there were still people who didn't know what the game was), it was almost holy writ amongst the various grouyps I played with that you did NOT randomly roll your dice between hits or saves or whathaveyou.... doing so was a sure way of rolling all of the "20s" out of them...
lol
Every so often, I still catch myself stopping for just that brief moment, and then I laugh at myself as I roll a few more times for no apparent reason at all.
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Wik, What's wrong with curry?
