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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 1736621" data-attributes="member: 19675">Entering the fray LATE!  (BTW: that page 1 line about goats & kibble...LOL!)  And I loved that Retail: The Wrath of Cat Piss Man article.I have to agree- there are fringe types in any hobby.  But we seem to have an inordinately visible (smellable?) bunch in ours.Personally, having learned from past experience, I no longer play with the radically socially maladroit gamers out there unless I think I can be a positive force in mainstreaming them.I can find a new game group more easily than I can reconstruct my public or even private image.Aesop's Fable of the stork and the crows is famous for the aphorism : "You are known by the company you keep."  And I simply refuse to be tarred by the same brush as these guys and girls who won't/don't/can't conform to civilized behavior.Thus, I will no longer game with those RPG hobbyists who (and these are all from past experience):1) don't bathe regularly.  (Hey-you show up to game night sweaty from working as a house contractor in the hot Texas sun, that's one thing- but there's NO EXCUSE for similar odious scentage on a regular, repeated basis from someone who works a white-collar job in an air-conditioned room.)P.S.: wearing a freaking PARKA (no, I'm not exagerating) in Texas in July won't help your B.O. either.2) pick their noses with their fingers up to the last knuckle joint and flick the resultant produce across the table...especially WHILE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HOUSE!  (Not my house, thank God, but the host was incredibly patient!)3) insist on wearing TV/Movie/ancient culture costumes to special occasions/official functions as if they were suits or military uniforms.  THEY AREN'T.  And, despite the brilliant recreation of a Samurai's garb, you are a teenaged white guy in Texas, not an actual Samurai, so removing your REPLICA Katana from its scabbard does NOT mean you have to draw blood- if you honestly think it does and you keep saying that, you'll be under arrest VERY soon, if only for a 24-hour psych evaluation.4) run "deviant" campaigns.  As in, its OK to run a "villain" campaign, but when every PC/Player wallows in graphic detail of, say, "Hannibal Lecter-esque" behavior every session, for months on end...that bespeaks not roleplay, but disturbed individuals.  I'm sorry- I don't wan't any part of a campaign in which the "torture/kill-ressurect-repeat" tactic is the favored way of getting your XP.5) don't realize that its BORING when they tell you of their screenplay/fanfic/favorite PC's life-history, line-by-line. For HOURS. Every time we talk. Regardless of the general flow of conversation.  RPGs and related hobbies are (for me, at least) a hobby, NOT a religion and NOT a way of life.6) exhibit any other behavior that just generally creeps me out.  Hitting on the underaged definitely qualifies.  Regardless of sex or orientation.  That's not social, that's criminal.  So is illicit drug use.Now, I'm no Vin Diesel, but I can walk into a room without causing stares...unless I wander into a KKK rally.  And I KNOW there are lots of good, relatively normal gamers out there who don't fit into any of the above groups- I game with 2 such groups right now.  Those listed above were all exceptions...but they were EXCEPTIONAL exceptions, to be sure, who will be forever etched into my mind until senility sets in.So, if you want to game with CPM, knock yourself out.  You won't, however, find me at your table.On the flip side, most of these poor people are beyond help, so your or my lack of approval won't do much to help OR hinder them.  They are what they are.</blockquote>

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