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<blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2605344" data-attributes="member: 12332">Sometimes I'm glad I GM and seldom get a chance to play.I've only had one &quot;bad&quot; GM ... but mostly he just didn't have any time to prep (0, at all) and played the game about 2/3 2nd Ed.&nbsp; Eventually he bowed out as GM and somebody else stepped up.&nbsp; It wasn't great, but I had some fun.I had some crap sessions back in high school that I ran.&nbsp; Hrmmm.&nbsp; Lemmie think of a good stinker.I had one game where my players all wanted to use the 2nd ed Player's Options books and whatnot, and one guy who was utterly obsessed with using theoretical OOC knowledge IC.&nbsp; I.E. he found the recipie for gunpowder in a book and decided that his character would suddenly make it because it was POSSIBLE to make gunpowder.&nbsp; And put it into clay pots to light and throw as grenades.&nbsp; Y'know, juvenile crap.&nbsp; After THAT conversation started a huge outbreak of:&nbsp; &quot;Dude, I want to make gunpowder, lets kill these merchants and steal all their stuff so we can make more to kill the badguys.&quot;&nbsp; So, eventually, after they tried to burn the city down and I was tired I rebooted everything with the good ole':&nbsp; &quot;So you wake up strapped to a table in the lab of the mad illusionist you had been hunting for weeks ...&quot; bit.And things actually improved from there, after the boos died down.--fje</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeapThaumaturgist, post: 2605344, member: 12332"] Sometimes I'm glad I GM and seldom get a chance to play. I've only had one "bad" GM ... but mostly he just didn't have any time to prep (0, at all) and played the game about 2/3 2nd Ed. Eventually he bowed out as GM and somebody else stepped up. It wasn't great, but I had some fun. I had some crap sessions back in high school that I ran. Hrmmm. Lemmie think of a good stinker. I had one game where my players all wanted to use the 2nd ed Player's Options books and whatnot, and one guy who was utterly obsessed with using theoretical OOC knowledge IC. I.E. he found the recipie for gunpowder in a book and decided that his character would suddenly make it because it was POSSIBLE to make gunpowder. And put it into clay pots to light and throw as grenades. Y'know, juvenile crap. After THAT conversation started a huge outbreak of: "Dude, I want to make gunpowder, lets kill these merchants and steal all their stuff so we can make more to kill the badguys." So, eventually, after they tried to burn the city down and I was tired I rebooted everything with the good ole': "So you wake up strapped to a table in the lab of the mad illusionist you had been hunting for weeks ..." bit. And things actually improved from there, after the boos died down. --fje [/QUOTE]

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