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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5687311" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have several peeves that I consider to be bad DMing  I don't necessarily think the DM doing this is a bad DM all around just where these things are concerned. 1 Being to rigid to the point that you lose opportunities for awesomeness.  The example that comes to mind I was playing a ranger with favored enemy elves and I had a special magical bow against elves. We played for six levels almost six months and we didn't see any elves. Finally after a rough dungeon crawl with one freaking arrow left we come across some drow cultist. I fire the bow and roll a crit and then roll max damage it was a thing of beauty. I think I did something like 68 points of damage. Then the DM say you see the arrow bounce off. He had a magic item to protect him from range attacks. The DM even showed me where it was written on his sheet. I don't care this was the time to let a player shine. I was a little bitter over this and changed characters next session because the DM told me that we not likely see many elves in the game. 2 Making one person the star and the game about them.   This has happened twice and both times I really ended up resenting it. 3 Asking for back stories and never using anything from it. 4 Railroading to the point that you take away all freedom from my character. The worse was a DM who decided that my character was going to get involved with her NPC and when I dragged my feet brought a god into it and said I had to because of a prophecy.5 Super duber NPCs who not only do everything but hold back information so that we can't solve issues on our own.</blockquote>

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