DM Schticks That Grind Your Gears

[shilsen]

Ahh, my Ex-DM ladies and gents. (Thanks for the advice on how to leave to everyone who commented in my previous thread. ) I've unsubscribed from his Yahoo group and we're still butting heads.

Which you wouldn't need to do, if you would disengage. See comment from moderator Dinkeldog above (post #128).

 

[Breakdaddy]

Why do I immediatly get a mental image of Tom Cullin from The Stand?

P-E-L-O-R, that spells Greyhawk City. *nod*

Now and forever, world without end, hallelujah, amen!

 

[Dagger75]

Instead I played it straight and ripped her character sheet in two, which is my normal shtick when a character dies and has no chance of resurrection.

There we go another schtick I would love to see go away.
Thats not your character bub. I got a whole binder full of characters who died and passed on. I like to keep them. I have notes on them on other characters and places he has been to. So hands off MY character sheet.

 

[Montague68]

There we go another schtick I would love to see go away.
Thats not your character bub. I got a whole binder full of characters who died and passed on. I like to keep them. I have notes on them on other characters and places he has been to. So hands off MY character sheet.

With player permission of course. It became sort of a ritual in my old gaming group. *Quickly unhands Dagger75's character sheet*

 

[Dagger75]

With player permission of course. It became sort of a ritual in my old gaming group. *Quickly unhands Dagger75's character sheet*

I guess if the players don't mind then its not really a schtick thats grinds any gears

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

GM's who take petty little glee in figuring out ways to kill your PC that has gained any type of power, and forces you to rebuild at 3-15 levels lower than the rest of the party.

Then takes pleasure in killing your new PC at least twice a session.

My biggest pet peeve, however, is one that I haven't seen here yet...


YOU KILLED MY PC, SO I'M KILLING YOURS!

GM's that bring crap from other games into the one they are GMing, or bring stuff from the game they GM into the one they are playing in.

It drives me nuts.

 

[Twowolves]

If you had been paying attention, A. I rolled to-hit with the cannon. B. I then rolled an artillery die, not a scatter die, to see how far the cannon ball bounced. C. I rolled for damage behind the screen and killed the low hit point mule.

It was a frickin cannon! Let's see you take a cannon, hit a mule with it and see the mule survive.

Sounds like someone would be better off playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles (or WFRP) rather than d20 D&D to me....

 

[jester47]

I find that a lot of the annoying schticks that DM pull come from either some article that suggested it as a way of making your game different, or (more commonly) come from the first time the DM ever played and had a good time. Generally these schticks are ok in moderation but the DM remembers how cool it was when Craig, Jerrys older brother did it back in 1992. Or when they first read the article about double crossing players in dragon.

The thing is, a lot of these schticks posted here had their genesis in gaming advice articles.

Aaron.

 

[Storm Raven]

Thats when you go find another game or DM. If you play by the book, then what happens when a DM runs a combat and rolls hot and ends up with TPK???

Then there is a TPK. Why is this a problem?

 

[Umbran]

Ahh, my Ex-DM ladies and gents. (Thanks for the advice on how to leave to everyone who commented in my previous thread. ) I've unsubscribed from his Yahoo group and we're still butting heads.

AO - a moderator has already asked that the catfighting between you two stop. You are now in direct conflict with that request.

Let me be clear - your past history and personal conflicts are not a fit subject for airing on these boards. Do not bring it up again, either of you. If you two cannot coexist peacably on these boards, one or both of you will be asked to leave.

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