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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3401236" data-attributes="member: 20805">I have a couple stories, but have been mostly blessed with mostly normal players..My favorite story tho, is from a GURPS Western game. Each player came up with a character concept that fit our groups gaming style.. in other words scum of the earth, running from the law, horse thieves and murderers.... Well, sortof. One player decided that his character was a fallen Texas Ranger, on the run from the law after being wrongfully accused of murdering someone important. So far so good...but, we were a couple counties over and he didn't want anyone to know, so he still wore the badge... First session the PC's meet in a bar. Well, sort of meet. We are all there and a fight breaks out. Multiple villanous gunslingers who have the Law hunting for them duck and cover, clearing leather and preparing to get the heck out of dodge... Guess who hollors out 'Texas Ranger!'..while flashing his badge, waving his 6-shooter, and calling for everyone to put thier weapons down..... :\ - Let me tell ya, that went well. Found out really quick what a .308 does to a man in GURPS.He was pissed, ripped up his sheet and called us all A-holes, then stormed out of the game shop. Eventually he calmed down and realized that was a really stupid thing to do, but it took him some time to forgive me...  {Out of the 5 players that shot at him, I was the only one that hit...}He eventually got better at bringing characters in that fit the group better <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />====Of course, I have torn up a character sheet and left a table in disgust... but I feel that I have a good reason to. My first, and last, Con my buddy and I sat down at a Shadow Run game that was offered. Long story short, the rest of the player were the DM's normal group and he played favorites the entire time. It didn't help that their idea of a Shadow Runner, a criminal living on the violent fringe of society, should get bonus XP for ..."morale and ethical play" The session ended with an unbeatable NPC who flat out killed my character  on the surprise round.  Nothing says 'DM is pissed and is killing your character' better than 13D6 damage from a thrown stilleto.....so, I ripped up the sheet and walked away.</blockquote>

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