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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8383643" data-attributes="member: 3457">Around 96 I was invited to play in a Rifts game. I made a superhero character with all sorts of immunities, buttloads of hit points and flying powers. We started off leaving a settlement when the GM told me I couldn't fly and had to use a speeder bike, ok, I was cool with that, it's a thing. SO we encounter some mutants or some such and I tried to fire a rocket, nuclear compact thing, at them and he tells me I failed, I rolled low, ok, and that my launching system had jammed and I needed to make a saving throw. I rolled and it was a good roll but he told me I needed to make another because the bike was exploding too and also had a nuclear engine. Ok cool cool cool. I pointed out I was immune to radiation and he decided I was not immune if I inhaled it... this SOB went every which way he could to just kill me, ten minutes into the session. After inviting me to play. My immunities didn't matter, as minor as they were compared to my glitter boy playing brother. I put down my sheet and handed him the Rifts book and told everyone to have a good time and went to play Tecmo Super Bowl in my room. What I learned? Don't invite people to game if you don't really want them to play and definitely don't go out of your way to kill a player's character, it's transparent and bad DMing.no. 2, more recently. My wife and I agree to a Pathfinder 1e game. We buy a bunch of the pocket guides because this is looking like a good long term game. I hem and haw on what character I want to play, I hadn't been a PC since that previous Rifts game outside of a 3 or 4 month Vamp game. I decide I want to play an Inquisitor something (I don't recall the race) and when I show up for the character creation session the DM has soo graciously given my entire character concept to a different player. The whole nine yards. Joyously telling me this... OK, cool cool cool. I make a Drow Magus that worships Graz'zt and hunts devils and demons for him. I planned out 5 levels alternating between rogue and magus since no one picked any class with roguey skills. The first two sessions were a lot of fun. I let the concept thievery slide, no big and I wasn't dead set on it. Annoying sure. Cue a few days before the next session: the DM had been spending a lot of time with my wife, just chilling and hanging out. He has an obvious crush on her but I trust my wife (you'd have to know her to understand WHY LOL). We all worked together and my wife was off for surgery. We had become good friends with him and his girlfriend, chilling at each other's places, cooking and painting minis together and stuff. Well he left work early that night and asked if I would bring his girlfriend home. About 1.5 hours later my wife messages me with OMG. He had come over to our apartment to tell her he can't just be friends with her and he wanted her to make a decision to be with him. Lesson learned? If the DM gives away your character concept before session 0... he probably has an alternative motive. Don't be that DM.</blockquote>

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