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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 213052" data-attributes="member: 514">Hmmm,  this paragraph reminds me a lot of my flatmate.  He's a good GM normally, coming up with great storylines, but he gets frustrated and difficult at times.  He will have one way out of a situation planned, and if we can't find that way we are stupid.As a player he can be worse.  When playing in campaigns with him he has a tendancy to belittle others.  I have many times reached the point where I just shut up and don't interact, because he will be contrary to anything I suggest.  So, rather than suggesting something which may be a good idea, only to have him pounce on it, I keep quiet and let him suggest it.He also has a tendancy to make sweeping statements about someone else's campaign.  For instance, stating "all sewers are filthy, if we go down there we will be covered in muck" - this was on a spacestation in a sci game.  I thought "well, they might have robots who clean the sewers.  They might have tech which stops the smell, etc."  but now the GM is stuck with smelly sewers because this person has declared it is so.Yes, a GM can overrule that, but it becomes confrontational then.Ths person also likes to include a lot of romance in the games he plays in.  I get uncomfortable with that.  It feels to me that he's using the games as an outlet for his sexual desires, and I don't like that.As for GMing him - I won't do it.  He makes me nervous, and I fear that he will tell me that my world is wrong becuase "things don't work that way.  I know more about history than you".In fact, I try to avoid playing in games that he is in, or he GMs.  This is awkward at times because our house has a lot of games run here, so one of us must miss out.  But it's better than feeling bad about it.Despite all my comments here, he is one of my best friends.  We've been friends for 15 years, and mostly through gaming.And he is a good roleplayer.  At conventions he usually wins a few awards for roleplaying characters across all sorts of Genres and settings.  I think that mostly I need a break from his gaming style for a while, and he probably feels the same about me.Duncan</blockquote>

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