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Message: <blockquote data-quote="belphanor" data-source="post: 7758620" data-attributes="member: 6919620">gonna have to put a trigger warning here, some kinda mature stuff. sorry in advance.well, the rest of the group read him the riot act and said they wouldn't play with him as GM if he did the first bit again.  The other, well... ok, so to be honest these are 3 separate events spread out over like 5 years, and only with one GM.  Many of the other GMs I've had were much better as GMs.  I was just going with what the worst things a GM has done AS A GM, not as a person.The guy who said all those things? Verbally abusive to everyone in the group, both in and out of the game. Physically abusive towards me. When he was threatened to be kicked from the group he said that we were his only friends and without us he would kill himself, so you can add emotional blackmail as well.2 different GMs (who admittedly were roommates, were brought up on charges of possession of child pornography. Apparently someone had broken into their apartment, and while ransacking the place, while they were at a con, the bugler found their stashes, and called the cops.  this was just weeks after one of their very good friends, who got them into the hobby (they say the hobby in question is RPGs, but I'm not so sure) was caught in an FBI sting that had him charged with 37 counts of possession of child porn.  Those two went on to open an RPG / anime / manga store that would hold My Little Pony viewing parties that were advertised in the local paper as 'pony parties'. and yes, they were aware of the other meaning of that phrase. (the store crashed and burned in no small part to one of them being charged with sexual harassment by a customer, but the lack of ANY business skills on the part of the two other than working the counter at fast food restaurants was probably a factor as well.)and the number 1 worst GM that I've ever had would be the guy who raped his 8 year old stepdaughter.  None of us in the group saw that coming. I mean how can you think that one of your friends would be a monster like that?  After something like that, having an abusive GM (while still bad) doesn't seem like that big a deal you know?Now, those are 4 GMs out of probably around 15 or so regular GMs I've had, and this is the thread for the WORST.  I've also had GMs who were open with creative solutions to problems, especially solutions that they hadn't thought of.  I've had GMs who were willing to scrap their entire campaign because the PCs wanted to go off in a different direction.  I've had GMs who felt that the players deserved to have some input on the creation of the world that they had built.  But those worst ones all happened in the span of about 5 years, and are more recent than the good ones.  I have, however, decided that if anyone I've played RPGs with gets involved in a child related sex crime, I'm gonna find a new hobby and sell all my RPGs cheap, cos 3 times is too many.</blockquote>

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