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

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Enjoying this thread

I've read all these so far, and I have a few to share myself.

The first regular D&D group I gamed at was in the basement of a 30-something fellow who lived with his mother. The internet was only in its infancy, in fact the web was just becoming public. Every now and then he'd bring the game group up to his bedroom and show us the newest batch Dolcet sketchings he found on the 'net. I think he kept a collection on his computer. Kinda' creepy.

More recently, at an RPGA convention in the Twin Cities, there was a female gamer, who was chaparoning two young kids and introducing them to D&D at the convention. I was DMing the table with her, the two kids, and three others (of which was another father and his two kids) through an intro mod. She had a arcane spellcaster that was out of really useful spells at this point. She was feeling useless while everyone was doing exciting things. She then tells me she was going to cast mage hand (her only spell left) and squeeze the big bag guy's testicles, and yank on them, hoping to distract the guy. Everyone at the table went silent. The children all stared at the table. The other adult just walked away from the table after she said this.

I was introduced to another fellow through my brother's then girlfriend. She heard we played D&D and knew a neighbor kid who said he played D&D also and was looking for a group to game in. We were in need of more players so took him in. He told us many times how his parents were fundamentalists christians (he said this disparagingly) who thought he was into satanism and wouldn't play D&D. Understandably, we sympathized with him. Later as time went on, he told us many tales about his life, many of which unravelled as we talked to others that knew him. Things like, how he was dating a model, or dating a rich heiress, or that his parents attacked him. All proved false. So many minor things fell apart, on top of these pretty big things that we all got worried just being around him not knowing when we'd be the target of his imagination. Oh yeah, he eventually was arrested for car theft and put in jail. We later learned that his parents were devout christians, but didn't mind his playing D&D at all.


Regards,
Eric Anondson

 

[rgard]

...Apparently he did this during class as well until a history teacher in his final year pulled him aside and told him "Thou Shalt Not".

Just back from puking off the deck. I hope it rains tonight. Right up there with the Hermaphrodite Elf.

 

[Kemrain]

I laughed pretty hard at the herm half-elf. It's just a little creepy. Wiggy, more like, not creepy. The acne-kid, however, did not make my digestive system happy. Curse my vivid imagination, especially the olfactory portions. Curse them muchly. I read the RPGNet thread, all 75 inhuman pages of it, through the Poop Guy, Another Puss Eater, the Brazillian Death Squad, Guns, Hermaphroditic Anthropomorphic Pornography, and other assorted tidbits of twistedness. I cringed, I laughed, I almost cried, and nearly vomited. If only I could divorce myself from humanity.

Anything I could say about my own experiences would pale in comparason to the horror which has already been unleashed. I thank God that my friends are only 'bizarrely messed up,' and not 'twisted beyond reason.' I need to take a long, hot, soapy shower now.

- Kemrain, the Creepiest Gamer I Know.

 

[rgard]

My contribution

Wasn't creepy, but totally unexpected...

We played D&D1E regularly in the house lounge at the dorm. One Friday night we wanted to play, but the Star Fleet Battles crowd took over the house lounge so one of the players who lived off campus said we could play at his apartment. Henceforth I shall refer to this player as 'apartment' guy. So we went.

Everything is normal; we're slaughtering orcs and goblins; ordered pizza; pizza arrives and we take a break. Apartment guy walks over to his sliding glass doors to his balcony. He opens the doors wide and picks up a wicker basket that has surgical tubing tied to the two handles of the basket. The other ends of the tubing are tied to the drape hooks that flank the glass doors. He yells to his roommate to throw him a potato. Roommate does and turns off the over head light in the area of the room right infront of the balcony opening. Apartment guy then pulls the basket back the entire length of the room stretching the surgical tubing...yes folks a very large slingshot.

He lets go and the potato is launched. We run to the balcony (trying to hide behind the drapes) and look out and hear a large crash as the potato smashes through the window of a convenience store two streets away. We see the staff run out of the store and look up and down and across the street trying to find who 'threw' the potato.

At this point we are all barely containing ourselves from laughing out loud. Apartment guy watches until the staff go back inside and launches a second potato that hits the bottom of the store's door with a loud crash again. Same reaction from the staff.

After about a 1/2 hour, apartment guy's roommate remarks that they are out of potatoes. Roommate then walks over to the same convenience store and buys a sack of potatoes.

Never expected all that when we went to play D&D.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Torm]

Kender42 -

Since you are the one who can edit the original subject for this thread, it occurred to me to suggest to you to change it to warn that reading all of this may result in having to make a sanity check vs Cthulhu Mythos.

 

[Korgan26]

Thank You rgard,
Most of these post have mearly re-enforced my general disgust in humanity but yours made me laugh so hard I cried, two streets away! Thats awsome!!

Z

 

[Orius]

The Grackle[/b]]He also started off every combat by throwing a spear into the nearest orc and yelling, "Hold my spear, F***er!" which I found sort of endearing.

The spear thing is cute...but EVERY COMBAT?

Maybe the campaign had a LOT of orcs.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Her: <Enthusiastically Role-Playing> "I know how we can get by them... I'll dress up as a shipwrecked maiden and then swoooon into their midst. They'll be so distracted with concern for me that they won't notice everybody else sneak by!"

Hey, it worked for Uhura!

-Hyp.

 

[Beowolf]

A LOT of very,disturbingly creepy stories out there!
i used to think the group i gamed with had problems but they all pale in comparison. I am greatful for that.
on a side note, today i heard about a court case in a city i live near about a pan to commit murder and apparently those accused were seeing a psych to find out if d&d was somehow involved. This whole thing got me worried about a whole new crusade against d&d based on some extraggiated(sp?) claim that d&d was responsible. Uugh. i will try to find out more tomorrow because a law class from our school was going to go to the trial.

 

[Kender42]

I have to say, that all these stories make me long for the days (.. like 3 days ago) when all I had to worry about was one quirky.. yes, I said QUIRKY, because you have proved him un-creepy!... player.

And Torm, subject edited