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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drowbane" data-source="post: 2913010" data-attributes="member: 23396">The Moral of the Story - Back during my 2e days one of our DMs (who mainly ran Shadowrun) would go out of his way to PUNISH characters for doing something the DM thought was not-so-nice.  One member of our Shadowrun team was a AWoL spec-ops guy (or somesuch) who focused on Sniping.  This particular Ork would on occasion tag innocents on purpose to heighten chaos during Runs.  Naturally this DM thought it appropriate to haunt the characters with "Ghosts of the Past".  (Note, the player of the Ork normally played Paladin types to a T)Another example.  This was during 2e, my PC had a katana from the Fighter's Handbook... which of course was the Uber weapon of the day.  This DM felt the need to destroy it with an unexplained psionic detonation (no, we never did run into any psionicist villain <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) just because he thought the sword was borken (fool had no concept that the broadsword with its 2d4 was just slightly weaker.</blockquote>