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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8330494" data-attributes="member: 30438">Yes, I've played with a few. Some way back in the day, when we were younger and didn't know better. Some recently - at an Origins D&amp;D Epic, no less, though admittedly he was someone that got recruited at the last minute when they were short. And if I'm being honest, when I was much younger, if you got on my bad side, I could be a really nasty DM. I once threw a level-draining wraith, followed by a troll, followed by a pit trap, ending with an ambush by a blue dragon, at one PC. If you were playing a paladin and got me mad, your character would live, but invariably level-drained, stripped of their paladinhood, with your armor and several magic items gone, all from adventures designed to do just that. Because I knew it was far worse to destroy your character concept than just the character. Granted, it took a lot for me to enact those sort of scorched character protocols. You had to really push me to get to that point. And because I was the only DM most of these folks knew, they were still stuck gaming with me even after all that (of course, I was also stuck with them as players!). I was still generally a softy to everyone but the one player that had gone too far (and even then, after they'd gotten the business, my anger spent, they'd be in pretty much the same boat as the rest of the table). I like to think I've grown up since then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8330494, member: 30438"] Yes, I've played with a few. Some way back in the day, when we were younger and didn't know better. Some recently - at an Origins D&D Epic, no less, though admittedly he was someone that got recruited at the last minute when they were short. And if I'm being honest, when I was much younger, if you got on my bad side, I could be a really nasty DM. I once threw a level-draining wraith, followed by a troll, followed by a pit trap, ending with an ambush by a blue dragon, at one PC. If you were playing a paladin and got me mad, your character would live, but invariably level-drained, stripped of their paladinhood, with your armor and several magic items gone, all from adventures designed to do just that. Because I knew it was far worse to destroy your character concept than just the character. Granted, it took a lot for me to enact those sort of scorched character protocols. You had to really push me to get to that point. And because I was the only DM most of these folks knew, they were still stuck gaming with me even after all that (of course, I was also stuck with them as players!). I was still generally a softy to everyone but the one player that had gone too far (and even then, after they'd gotten the business, my anger spent, they'd be in pretty much the same boat as the rest of the table). I like to think I've grown up since then. [/QUOTE]

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