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

[Torm]

Hope you give the police his name when he graduates to adults...

I did tell my parents that he reacted strangely, but his dad and my dad were good friends (my dad was his Best Man at his last wedding, for example.) They talked about it, and Dad came back telling me that the boy was just going through a weird phase and he'd get over it. O...kay. It may sound kinda twisted, but I didn't want to lose my gaming group, and this was my dad saying everything was okay. We moved away when I was 3/4 of the way through the 8th grade, and I've never seen him since.

For those of you who have read my previous posts in other threads, yes, this was the DM under which I "lost myself". Before it was all over, I guess the person I had been before all this just didn't know how to take it anymore, and gave up. My parents didn't really notice all that much - dad was on perpetual overtime, I think primarily to stay away from my mom, and I think my mom thought that my going a little bonkers would help her keep me under control. (Boy, was that ever wrong - I don't think she anticipated the effects of going bonkers to become Lawful Good ) But she's another, non-game-related evil, with a story (or twenty) for another time.

Oh, by the way. Whee. What did I win?

 

[Numion]

As a female DM, I would be furious if one of my players did this. I'd stop the game as soon as I realized what was happening, and toss the player out of my house, if my other players didn't get to him first. However, I suspect that anyone who wants to play female characters as caricatures...isn't used to socializing with women, shall we say.

At least in the games I've seen both males and females are played quite often as just caricatures. I wouldn't make a big deal out of it, and wouldn't understand if others did. You have the Dumb Barbarian Males all over the place .. Bimbo Barbarians aren't much different. Or do you have issues with cross-gender playing in general? Or with caricatures?

In general, if a player is doing something that is making someone else uncomfortable, the best solution is to talk it out privately. If you can't fix it that way, it's probably best for one of the involved parties to find a new game.

There is uncomfortable things in game that should be kept in check, and there also are drama queens that get upset for nothing. Not saying you was one, and it's probably the intent that counts. If someone plays a Bimbo for the laughs and not to insult women it should probably be okay.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Jezter, I agree that Player One likely had OCD, and Player Two probably had Tourette's Syndrome. Whenever my brother and I get together to tell old "war stories" from our college D&D days, those guys and their possibly psycho-neurological disorders always come up. Then we remember Player One's dad, and realize they were probably just freaks... lol

 

[The_Universe]

A couple of additions:

When I started GMing for my current group (see my story hour below), we had the first session at a (at the time) acquaintance's apartment. We were new to the area - they needed a GM, I needed players. My wife worked at Wizards of the Coast retail, so that's how we managed to find them.

As I walk in the front door, the first thing I hear is, "It's not really a celebrity P*rn collection!"

The player in question stopped talking after he realized the new DM had arrived, but it was certainly an off-putting way to start. As it turns out, he wasn't a freak at all...despite what first impressions may have suggested.

All in all, that's not the wierdest - I had a buddy that used to play who was seriously bi-polar, and may have been (continues to be) schizophrenic. Bought a fake katana and sharpened it in his spare time - used to threaten a couple of kids, apparently...not game related, but he *was* a guy I gamed with. He's not a great guy, but I feel more sorry for him than anything else. He's got problems, and we can't get him to get help...

 

[Mallus]

Sure.

But what's normal in D&D? I'm certain some groups would object to my current groups fondess for turning dead enemies in hand puppets [including, in a wondeful feat of illogic, a dead Ettin] then preforming obscene Punch-and-Judy routines with them...

 

[Torm]

God I hope not. a) I'm not gay, b) he's married with a kid.

I was kidding, mostly - but I wouldn't count on the married with kids thing meaning much. A friend of mine's dad was married and produced my friend and his sister before "discovering" his homosexuality and fleeing to California. Not that I'm saying your friend would do a dirty thing like that, gay or not. Just saying that people don't realize these things right away sometimes.

Or maybe he's not gay but just has a thing for you. Like my thing for Legolas. That's one derned perty Elf.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Ahhh...I love my gaming group. If any of you are reading this...you guys rock. Nothing like a thread like this to make me really appreciate y'all.

I haven't had many experiences with too many creepy players. I guess I've been lucky. My worst was probably when (at a Con) I needed to borrow a d8 from someone and I reached toward one from the guy next to me while asking, "Hey, can I borrow a d8?" and he slapped my hand.

I understand that some people have "special" relationships with their dice...but come on.

But compared to what I've read here...that's nothing.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Actually, one of the biggest bimbos to ever appear in a campaign I ran was played by a female. That was just the kind of character she LIKED to play.

As far as TracerBullet being smacked by an obnoxious gamer, I never understood the 'lucky' dice thing.

 

[diaglo]

My worst was probably when (at a Con) I needed to borrow a d8 from someone and I reached toward one from the guy next to me while asking, "Hey, can I borrow a d8?" and he slapped my hand.

i said i was sorry.

nobody touches the dice.

 

[Elrik_DarkFury]

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