Annoying Player HORROR STORIES!!!!

[cyderak]

We had one guy that liked to smoke weed during breaks (obvious why we had to boot him). Its cool if he wants to smoke it, just do it on your own time.


We had one guy who smelled so bad I had to dis-infect the seat he sat in because he left his Smell on the chair even after he left. How do you tell a guy he smells witout making him mad. So we just stopped calling him.


We had a guy who took everything personally even though it was just guy-talk. He jumped up and called me a "Prick" because I told him to knock off picking on one of our players. Normally I'm not against good humored ribbing but those two guys would start out kidding and then get so heated in argument we had to separate them. Their arguments took up sooo much playing time and made playing D&D so awkward no-one was having fun anymore. After he called me a "Prick" I told him, "Theres the door dude, If you don't like me trying to get everything under control so we can play then get out". A week later he showed up on my front doorstep crying because we hadn't called him. I gave him another chance but the other players made playing D&D a living hell for him. He eventually quit because of it.


We had another guy who was a mooch. Whenever we'd order food he would wait until everyone put in their money for food and throw in nowhere near what he owed. We found this out about 8 game sessions after he started gaming with us and we could'nt figure out why we had to put extra money in for food all the time. Then I'd ask people to put in for soda andhe would refuse because he "brings his own soda". But he never did and would always ask if he could have soda. he drank the equivalent of a 12 pack and a half worth of soda at each game session. On top of all that he would instigate arguments and fuel the arguments by piping in with rules that were'nt even true or were in beta testing phases and because of that were too overpowered. Not sure why he never came back.......probably because his soda habit was getting too expensive for ME and I, sometimes would'nt have soda for people.



Last but not least was about 4 or 5 Douch-Bags that just came and went over the years. May you all find each other AND ANNOY THE SNOT OUTTA EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF US!!!

 

[kitsune9]

Whats the HORROR STORY about your creepy, douche-bag, or just plain annoying players that were booted by the group becaues of their Douche-Baggery?

In my home campaigns, I never really had to deal with a situation of having to boot a single player because he was a [insert any bad concept here]. I have quit games where I was a DM because all the players were cheating and I have quit a gaming group over expectation issues.

Now, I did run into a lot of really strange and annoying players at cons that if they were somehow in my home game, they would be given their exit interview immediately. Here's some of the more notable ones:

1. One guy wore the same clothes at a three-day LG con that by the third day, he smelled so bad that I thought he pooped in his pants. He was a judge and I had the misfortune to sit next to him.

2. One guy had rotting teeth, balding hair and was bragging to me how his company sends him to Europe first class just to deliver documents. Uh...Fed Ex was down for the day?

3. At the same game session for #2, we had a judge who was abhorrently slow and kind of not all there. He clearly looked more baked than sober. He would literally spend minutes on each action to tell us what the monsters did and so on. In the six hours that we played, we got maybe a couple of fights in.

4. When I played a Deadlands game, there was a guy who had a ton of nervous twitches and would shout (literally scream) to get the players' attention.

Of course, I also had my fill of other guys who think they're the world's biggest expert on All Things Japan because they've seen a few cartoons and know a couple of words. Then of course there's the other types of braggarts like the guy in #2 who makes millions, test drive Porches for a living, date buxom Japanese girls, some expert in this or that field and so on, yet they look and smell like hobos.

Now, in all, I'm not really judgmental of these folks. Whatever they want to do to get their self-esteem up, go for it. Just don't expect people such as myself to buy it. And when I go to conventions, I have to take all these interesting personalities as part of the package of playing games.

 

[cyderak]

1. One guy wore the same clothes at a three-day LG con that by the third day, he smelled so bad that I thought he pooped in his pants. He was a judge and I had the misfortune to sit next to him.

last summer when me and a couple guys went to Gencon 2010 we were going to give out deoderant to the smelliest guys we could find. Everyone else chickened out and left their deoderants "Smelly Awards" back at the hotel room. I accidentally forgot mine but I wished I hadn't. I was standing next to the booth that sold D&D minis and some guy started to talk to me. I must have made quite the impression because he kept following me around. And holy crap did he stink!!!! Thee only way I could ditch him was to start talking to a chick dressed up as sailor moon. Apparently his kryptonite was......WOMEN.

 

[Chimera]

Many over the years, but the worst;

A 17 year old obnoxious kid. Came into my house with muddy shoes despite being told to take them off at the door and proceeded to sit cross legged on my futon (which fortunately had an old blanket over it), muddying it up. He ate sunflower seeds the whole time and left the shells in an arc around him and on the floor. Also ate a bunch of candy bars and left the wrappers scattered around him. Drank nearly a 12 pack of Mountain Dew except for the last 0.5 to 1 ounce in each can and left them sitting on the table.

This despite sitting 4 feet from the garbage can and having me repeatedly telling him to clean up his crap and going so far as to walk over and rattle the garbage can for emphasis. He'd just sneer and ignore me.

When the session ended, I made it clear that he was never again going to set foot in my house for any reason. We'd been rotating houses for the game, and the GM then kicked him out of the group rather than subject any other hosts to this LOSER.

 

[kitsune9]

Thee only way I could ditch him was to start talking to a chick dressed up as sailor moon. Apparently his kryptonite was......WOMEN.

It's actually pretty amazing how the opposite sex can severely intimidate people who suffer from low self-esteem.

 

[Heathen72]

And holy crap did he stink!!!! Thee only way I could ditch him was to start talking to a chick dressed up as sailor moon. Apparently his kryptonite was......WOMEN.

Please forgive me if the following comes across as patronising...

It's fair to say that the smelliest people I have ever met - excluding panhandlers - have been at cons. It's not just individuals, either. Honestly, it shouldn't be that you can't enter the main hall at a con without being hit by a wave of B.O.*

I hesitate to mention it, because some gamers have excellent personal hygiene (and because I am beginning to find the recent plethora of "crap people I have gamed with" threads a bit mean spirited, frankly) But in the interests of all of us at cons, please consider doing the following while you are there, even if you don't in your everyday life:

1. Have a shower every day
2. Change your clothes every day
3. Wear deodourant
4. Brush your teeth. In the morning and in the evening. Every day
5. After you have eaten, wash the oil etc from your face, out of your beard, and wash your hands. You don't have to see bits for the smell to be there. Garlic and onion smells love beards especially.
6. When you go to the toilet... just be careful, ok?

I don't want to offend anyone with this, though I don't think Eric's Grandma would disapprove with the sentiment. I would normally say "if the cap fits..." but I think in this case people don't realise when it does. So all I will say to conclude is: Have a laugh at this, but when you are at a con, be paranoid that you are the one I was writing about, just in case.

*It's not just gaming and sci fi conventions, but in my experience they tend to be the worst. Maybe at business conventions people have hotel rooms with showers instead of sleeping in their cars. I dunno.

 

[Hungry Like The Wolf]

I wish you wouldn't say that. I happen to be autistic, albeit high-functioning (specifically I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome). However, autistic people aren't necessarily bad people, they're just different. Please don't let one person spoil you're perceptions of an entire group.

It's okay dude, it's hard for people outside to grasp the full extent of what autistic means and how to deal with it. I know I've come along way since meeting my girlfriend's autistic brother.

I've mostly had to kick people out of my groups for being racist or sexist. Australia's a country where racist jokes are socially acceptable and so it's depressing how many players you have to kick out.

One time we had a player who hypersexualized Asian girls and I had three Asian girls in the group at the time. I originally talked to him in private and he agreed to keep his "jokes" to himself and that he had no idea he was offending the girls. Eventually it got to the point where he would leer at one girl in-particular and "joke" about how different monsters would have sex with her character. I felt really bad because the guy had a lot of problems outside of the game and I really did try to help him out but eventually I had to tell him to get lost.

 

[Wepwawet]

It's actually pretty amazing how the opposite sex can severely intimidate people who suffer from low self-esteem.

Well, before improving his self esteem this guy should improve his hygiene.
It's amazing how a shower and clean clothes (preferably nice clothes) can improve one's self esteem. And other's acceptance. Actually it's not amazing at all, it's just common sense.

 

[Heathen72]

I've mostly had to kick people out of my groups for being racist or sexist. Australia's a country where racist jokes are socially acceptable and so it's depressing how many players you have to kick out.

Never happened in any of my groups. It must be a Sydney thing. Do all your players come from Cronulla?

Seriously though, that's a pretty gross generalisation, given that it was unqualified by an often or a sometimes. it's certainly not socially acceptable amongst any of the people I socialise with!

I am not saying that as a country we don't have an issue with racism. Far from it. But IMHO it is no more or less true of Australia that we are racist than any other country - at least those i have visited, anyway - there are rednecks everywhere.

But this is veering into political discussion, so enough said.

 

[Hungry Like The Wolf]

Never happened in any of my groups. It must be a Sydney thing. Do all your players come from Cronulla?

Seriously though, that's a pretty gross generalisation, given that it was unqualified by an often or a sometimes. it's certainly not socially acceptable amongst any of the people I socialise with!

I am not saying that as a country we don't have an issue with racism. Far from it. But IMHO it is no more or less true of Australia that we are racist than any other country - at least those i have visited, anyway - there are rednecks everywhere.

But this is veering into political discussion, so enough said.

I don't remember saying that Australia was any more or less racist than other countries. Perhaps I was being unclear, it's not that Australia is rife with racism. It's that Australia's brand of racism is masked as a joke and it's these jokes that lead me to kicking people out the most out of all anti-social behaviour at the table.

It isn't acceptable in my social group or table either however, after Hey Hey it's Saturday I find it hard for anybody to deny that racist humour is not socially accepted. It's on our national television.

Rather than derail the thread, if you feel I'm being unfair then by all means PM me but I stand by my statement. I'm sorry if you're offended, my intention was to only provide a cultural context for why it's the most common reason for kicking players out of my game and trust me, it's a lot more than you'd be comfortable conceding.