Ever had a player in your group throw a tantrum or worse? Most uncomfortable moment?

[Emirikol]

This thread is for us to let off some steam. Let em' rip! What kinds of nasty tantrums (or worse) have you seen from players or DM's in your groups?

I've only been gaming since 1981, but I swear, I've seen some pretty sweet fights, tantrums, broken furnature, thrown dice, slammed books, swearing, invokation of Holy Ones (and some unholy ones), blood, near-divorces, and downright sobbing crybabies over the years...

..and I think it makes for some sweet stories.

Let's hear yours!

jh

 

[Darklone]

Not much apart from throwing dice through windows, ripping char sheets to pieces, leaving the house and never coming back nor talking with the others...

 

[Emirikol]

Not much apart from throwing dice through windows, ripping char sheets to pieces, leaving the house and never coming back nor talking with the others...

Don't you love those! I love the character sheet rippers. They're my favorite. You wanna talk about "I'm Done" mentality. My friend Lance did that once in a dream sequence..then he had to redo his character sheet and he apologized to the group..he never did stop throwing dice and slamming books though...guy had a real temper.

jh

 

[Silver Moon]

After a player's beloved character was killed we had no more Resurrections available but one player suggested we use our Reincarnation scroll. His elf came back as an orc, which he found unacceptable and promptly committed suicide. He then got upset when we buried the character instead of trying to find another way to bring him back - so upset that once the game was over he went outside and vandalized the car of the person who suggested the Reincarnation. We let him know that he was no longer welcome to game with us.

 

[awayfarer]

I've only been gaming since 1981,

You've been gaming roughly as long as I've been alive.

Of my two groups...

1: My WLD group plays online via Openrpg. I think our DM can get a little cranky at times (Hi Hussar!) but I've never seen a real tantrum, and I think the effects of one would be lost over online play.

2: My second group is using a system (Rolemaster) that makes me a bit irritable, but thus far there hasn't been a tantrum. Even if there was, two of the group members are therapists.

 

[Dragonbait]

ooo a fun topic!

I tried to make these two stories quick, but it's really hard..

I've never seen a fight, but I saw one almost start:

The group I was GMing for captured a female NPC and wanted to question her. They sequestered her until they could figure out what to do. One of the players (a knight) said that they would not let any of the other PCs hurt her to get information. One of the players questioned her in private, and so the player and myself went into another room so the other players would not hear the questions. That player was an odd person and his character gave the NPC prisoner a hicky. Did I mention he was an odd person? Anyways, the knight (stranger than the other player) went in next, and he found out about the strange mark on her. I decided to go with it and the prisoner told the knight that the other character hit her (2ed days - no Bluff rolls or Sense Motive rolls) The knight player went back into the room, grabbed the other player by the collar, held up his fist and said "If you ever do that again, I'll kill you." The other player said "Let go of my shirt" in a flat tone, and the knight player did..
And during all of this, one of the players not involved in the altercation had invited their girlfriend to the session. She assumed that physical threats were normal for the group.

-Story 2-
We have a player who will get into these moods where he comes over and looks for a way to get someone to get mad at him. He clearly does not do it because he finds it fun or funny. It's really strange. He will also throw temper tantrums, too, but these are really rare.

This past Saturday, the guy called up and said he was on his way. He called at the time that we would normally have started, but admitted that he had fallen asleep. He worked for 13 hours earler that day, doing physical labor from 4am to 5pm. No one was blaming him for falling asleep, or being late. No big deal, I just told him to come on over when he was ready since he said that he wanted to play. He then called me up about 20 minutes later, yelling at me that he was an a-hole and that he shouldn't be playing because he can't make it on time (he used to have a problem with punctuality and was ashamed when people pointed this out, but got over that bad habit some time ago). He was yelling like he was mad at me, but never accused me of anything. It was strange.
I found out later that he had raged like this before, and recently broke his cell phone in one of these rages.

 

[James McMurray]

We have a couple of guys in our group that cannot let things go. If they're really sure about what they've just said it usually takes at least 3 "you're right, let's move on"s to get them to stop explaining why they're right.

 

[kenobi65]

Yes. Me.

I throw dice. Not often, and I'm highly embarrased afterwards, but I do it.

A couple of times, I've actually picked up the offending die, walked to the front door, opened the door, and hurled the little piece of plastic &%$# out into the night.

One other time (and this was when I was a teenager), I took a "bad" d20, went into my dad's workroom, cranked it into a vise, and started whaling on it with a sledgehammer. After 3 or 4 blows, it popped out of the vise like a shot, and hit me in the wrist. That stung like hell, and served me right.

It's one of the reasons I DM more than I play now. I don't get that upset when I'm DMing.

 

[Jdvn1]

I got upset once because two of my players took the DMG and MM and started to assign themselves xp based on the CR of the things they killed. I wanted to award them extra xp, but didn't want them to know.

I used to know a guy who'd get frustrated at bad rolls all the time. He'd throw his d20 around the room.

 

[Kafkonia]

I don't think I take it seriously enough to get upset, myself, and thankfully I haven't run into anyone who does. I don't see anything wrong with taking the game seriously, I just don't know if that approach could last long with our group.

Although our usually-the-DM did get a bit upset when his homunculus was killed by a carp based on an arbitrary roll made by the then-DM. The rest of it thought it was hilarious.