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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6341815" data-attributes="member: 91777">I have been hanging out on various gaming forums for a while now, and I constantly see people writing that you shouldn't judge them for their preferred play-style. "It's my table," they say, "I can play what I want!" Killer DM who punishes their players for not asking for searches on each individual floor tile? It's their table! Picky DM who bans all races except for humans, dwarves and kender? It's their table! Controlling DM who lets players pick their names and that's about it? It's their table!Fine, I don't have to play in their game, live and let live, yada yada yada. But I started wondering - how far is too far? What sort of things cross the line from 'type of game I don't enjoy' to 'this kind of game is just straight up wrong'? So I thought it would be interesting to list D&D practices that are TRULY BadWrongFun. A few examples are below. And if this list seems slightly tongue-in-cheek and possibly in the style of <a href="http://clickhole.com" target="_blank">clickhole</a>, well, you're not entirely wrong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Types of D&D games that cross the line:No bathroom breaks until players find the hidden bathroom on the sixth level of the dungeon. I know you want your game to be 'gritty' and 'hardcore', but bladder poisoning is a real thing! This is borderline abusive. WTH.Instead of hit points, hitting the actual players with a baseball bat. You know what, this is supposed to be a GAME, not reality. Hit points are a useful abstraction! Plus, someone could get a concussion. You need to take a long hard look at your life, Mr. DM!Players don't slaughter imaginary monsters, but actual woodland creatures. OK, that's just sick. You bastards. I don't even want to know what you do when someone rolls a critical hit.Your game involves actual satanic rituals. We spent most of the 80's trying to get past allegations of this crap. Now you're actually doing it??? Don't eff this up for everyone! Geez.Your weekly game is a front for human trafficking. It's one thing to have a weekly home game in your den. It's another to have it next to a cargo container full of Chinese immigrants on their way to Mexico.  This is NEVER ok!You cook and eat a member of an endangered species during your game. Call me crazy, but I think your five year campaign in your detailed homebrew fantasy setting will be just as immersive if you don't dine on spotted owl while you play it. I doubt bald eagles and horned toads even taste that good. Munch on some Fritos like everyone else!You replace rolling dice with drawing cards from MtG decks. You sick, twisted animal. I don't even want to look at you. Get out of my sight!What kind of games do YOU think cross the line into true BadWrongFun??</blockquote>

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