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<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7473093" data-attributes="member: 6801286"><p>I've played with a DM who always wanted to dominate the players, by consistently introducing powerful npc's played by him, that solved all our problems. He also had a habit of making all of our actions fail, by either setting the DC impossibly high, and/or adding extra complications that pretty much ensured our failure. </p><p></p><p>Funny how this sort of gamer is often mentioned in discussions like this. It seems to be a common thing. Are there a lot of gamers like this who are just really insecure?</p><p></p><p>He was a nice guy in real life, but not very fun to play roleplaying games with. It wasn't much better when he was a player either, with overpowered characters, dominating the table, denying other players their place in the spotlight, and outright cheating. You've probably seen this sort of player: The moment any player takes an action, he interferes because his character can do that action so much better. And the cheating baffles me. Is it really that bad to roll low for a check every now and then? Is it really that bad to fail at an action once in a while? Not every check is a matter of life and death. Who even cares if you fail a perception check occasionally? Do these players not realize that they are robbing themselves and others of fun by cheating?</p><p></p><p>So me and a few other players decided to kick ourselves from the group, and form a group of our own. In the process we also eliminated another bothersome player from our group, who was always causing problems with his strange anime-girl fetish, and attacks against other players.</p><p></p><p>And I haven't had any further problems ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 7473093, member: 6801286"] I've played with a DM who always wanted to dominate the players, by consistently introducing powerful npc's played by him, that solved all our problems. He also had a habit of making all of our actions fail, by either setting the DC impossibly high, and/or adding extra complications that pretty much ensured our failure. Funny how this sort of gamer is often mentioned in discussions like this. It seems to be a common thing. Are there a lot of gamers like this who are just really insecure? He was a nice guy in real life, but not very fun to play roleplaying games with. It wasn't much better when he was a player either, with overpowered characters, dominating the table, denying other players their place in the spotlight, and outright cheating. You've probably seen this sort of player: The moment any player takes an action, he interferes because his character can do that action so much better. And the cheating baffles me. Is it really that bad to roll low for a check every now and then? Is it really that bad to fail at an action once in a while? Not every check is a matter of life and death. Who even cares if you fail a perception check occasionally? Do these players not realize that they are robbing themselves and others of fun by cheating? So me and a few other players decided to kick ourselves from the group, and form a group of our own. In the process we also eliminated another bothersome player from our group, who was always causing problems with his strange anime-girl fetish, and attacks against other players. And I haven't had any further problems ever since. [/QUOTE]
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