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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightchilde-2" data-source="post: 3399562" data-attributes="member: 4109">My ex-wife was well known for throwing fits and tantrums, but the less said about her, the better.  I have three non-ex-wife stories though that stick out in my mind.Story A:  "I Jump Into the Fire."It was a Vampire: The Dark Ages game.  This one guy and his Gangrel bodyguard (played by my ex) were smarting off to this really powerful Prince.  The two idiots decided to set fire to the Prince's throne room.  After everyone successfully resisted rotschrek from the fire, I called for initiatives.  The Prince won and easily staked the two of them with a single blow.The guy rips his sheet into little pieces and yells "I jump into the fire!"Of course, he was staked, so he COULDN'T jump into the fire, which just irritated Mr. Fit-Thrower more.  We eventually talked him down.Story B: "Lockpicks."Wraith: the Oblivion.  It was during character generation.  Understand that, in the RAW, Wraiths pretty much start out with nothing unless they spend points in a Background that gives them equipment.  This guy's character was a thief, and he wanted lockpicks.  I asked him if he'd spent points in the appropriate Background.Cue the fit.  Not just a small argument, but he jumped up and down (Tom Cruise-like), yelling at the top of his lungs that he should be able to have lockpicks.  Yeah.  That pretty much ended his participation in the game because I never invited him back.Story C:  "Book of Vile Darkness vs. the LG Cleric."This was a high-level D&D game.  The two characters important to this story were a LE rogue /assassin (who had devices that hid her alignment) and a LG elven cleric.  The party had discovered THE Book of Vile Darkness, though they didn't know it at the time.The rogue/assassin was flipping through it, no ill effects, but couldn't make out what was inside of it (I ruled that it was written in Abyssal) so she asked the cleric, who did speak Abyssal, to look at it; quite innocently I might add.The cleric looked at it, failed his save and died right there on the spot.  The cleric's player, however, got up and started yelling at the rogue/assassin's player, telling him to get out and never come back (we were playing at the cleric's player's apartment).  We managed to talk him down once we explained that it wasn't on purpose, and the rogue/assassin was going to pay for the True Rez.</blockquote>

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