Creepy Player Habits - WARNING: reading may require a Sanity Check!

[Kender42]

Okay, how many of you have someone in your group like this:

I have this one guy who shares the DM's chair with me. He actually is our primary DM and is a great DM and great guy, but he has a few odd gaming habits.

I have a female Paladin I like to play, and he spent one entire session trying to get me to sleep with the "muscular, handsome blacksmith" - when my character actually had a real attraction (In character of course) to one of the other PC's. It bordered on the creepy and it seems to me that he doesn't do this to any of the other guys who have female characters, so it weirds me out some.

If he plays a female character, it's a very over-the-top female character. Dresses provocatively, and almost disturbs me with his overly-stereotypical bimbo-esque behavior, even as a supposedly-intelligent mage-type!

I'm half-thinking I need to just outlaw him from playing female characters but I don't really want to curtail his options.

So, does anyone else have any other odd quirky players, and what resolutions have you come up with to deal with the quirks?

 

[Macbeth]

I've never had player actually make me uncomfortable with any 'creepy' habits, but in that kind of situation I would start by gently steering the player/DM away from that behaviour, and, failing that, just tell him how you feel.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

When I saw the reference to a creepy player and you said 'share the chair with me' I thought you were speaking literally for a moment and would have agreed.

For be it from me to say what should or should not creep other people out (I have my own deep eccentricities that allow things to bug me) but without me being there to see it, its hard to say. It could be that he desperately wanted to inject some romance in the game (I am playing Devil's Advocate). However, you are probably the best to determine what is weird or what is not.

 

[MichaelH]

my character actually had a real attraction (In character of course) to one of the other PC's.

That's a little creepy for me, too.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

In the very first game I ever played in, there were two other players. One was a guy who graduated high school at 15 and came to college. Every 5 minutes EXACTLY he would get up from the game to wash his face with a soap and washcloth. The other guy was a morturary science major (the last one my university admitted) who was prone to shouting incomprehensible words at random times and then flying into fits of violent rage for no apparent reason.

Oh, and the first guy--his dad lived in the dorm with him, and wore a different costume every day. Yes... costume. One day he went around with his son dressed as a ninja, the next day as a safari guide, complete with khaki shorts, bush hat, and canteen. These were the two I remember most.

I'm not making this up. If I hadn't loved the game so much from the instant I sat down to play, these guys would've kept me out of the pastime forever.

 

[Chimera]

If he plays a female character, it's a very over-the-top female character. Dresses provocatively, and almost disturbs me with his overly-stereotypical bimbo-esque behavior, even as a supposedly-intelligent mage-type!

I'm half-thinking I need to just outlaw him from playing female characters but I don't really want to curtail his options.

This would be a "You're out of the group" offense in most groups I've played with. No males playing female bimbos. Period.

The creepiest I've seen was a very conservative evangelical christian player in an evil campaign who delighted in describing - in great detail - the torture his character inflicted on random peasants for no apparent reason.

Perhaps worse is that we told him to knock it off and he responded by quitting the game.

Of course, there was also the guy who earned a permanent disinvite from my house because he trashed my couch with his muddy shoes and left a sea of sunflower seed shells, chip particles and partly filled pop cans in a 3' radius of where he was sitting, despite being 5' from the garbage can and having me point to it several times. When he left without making any attempt to clean up after himself, I swore he would never return.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

When I saw the reference to a creepy player and you said 'share the chair with me' I thought you were speaking literally for a moment and would have agreed.

My...that would be creepy.

I haven't played with anyone seriously creepy, though some kids in my high school would probably qualify. I never actually played with them, though.

Brad

 

[Dark Jezter]

Every 5 minutes EXACTLY he would get up from the game to wash his face with a soap and washcloth.

Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, perhaps?

The other guy was a morturary science major (the last one my university admitted) who was prone to shouting incomprehensible words at random times and then flying into fits of violent rage for no apparent reason.

I'm no shrink, but that sounds like Touretts Syndrome to me.

Oh, and the first guy--his dad lived in the dorm with him, and wore a different costume every day. Yes... costume. One day he went around with his son dressed as a ninja, the next day as a safari guide, complete with khaki shorts, bush hat, and canteen.

Okay, now that's just plain weird.

 

[Caspian Marqine]

More stories

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=133489


Here are some far worse stories. Some of them involve possible threats to the life of the GM even.



Jonathan

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Creepiest guy I ever gamed with was a welfare bum. He was an Amiga computer enthusiast (as was I at the time), and we met through the local Amiga club. He lived in a single room in a basement of a building with a shared kitchen. His room had about sixty or seventy pounds of pornographic magazines at any one time, but they rotated frequently as he sold them back to the used bookstore and bought a stack of new ones. His room had a...funny...smell to it, likely because of the pornography. The one time I was in there, it was with a buddy of mine. When the creepy guy went to the washroom, something possessed my buddy to open his dresser drawer. Inside were a bunch of cut up Sears catalogues...which was weird enough. But then we noticed that the only pictures he had cut out of what must have been hundreds of catalogues were pictures of children in their underwear.

*scary lightning crash*

I never returned to his room, but I actually ended up gaming with him for the greater part of a year (he was a friend of a friend of a friend apparently, and ended up in my gaming group). But every time I saw him after that, I kept thinking about all those little paper children in his drawers.