Greatest Insult to a D&D PLAYER (OOC)

[Oryan77]

What is the greatest insult you could make to a D&D player

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[The Thayan Menace]

Damn ... It's Shark Week Already?

We had this one really annoying player who only managed to get into our game because he was a friend of another player.

When we ejected him, I called him an unpleasant remora.

 

[Pbartender]

I agree.

For a DM it might be: "Your campaign is boring."

Exactly. Every other insult listed here can and will be simply shrugged off, or maybe huffed at in the worst cases.

Seriously, from very personal experience, flat out telling someone that they are no fun to play with is a sure way to make a gamer cry, throw a tantrum, or simply walk away in quiet dejection. It is the one insult that is truly painful to a gamer, since for many of us, it is a primary source of socialization. If even the other gamer geeks don't enjoy playing with you, who else will?

 

[devilbat]

your games. (emphasis on -your- like it's something that stains. Ex: Oh you're playing your games tonight...)

Ooooh...I hate this. Whenever my wife wants to get on my nerves she'll refer to the "little game I play".

 

[Thunderfoot]

I can't really repeat the WORST thing I've ever been called. But the story behind it ends with one of my best comebacks... 2 gaming buddies and I were heading off to a lunchtime gaming sesion WAAAAYY back in my high school days. On the way this tardboy instigating jerk starts mouthing off, ignoring him we kept on walking, he and his group of larger croonies (ie the ones he would instigate in to doing his fighting for him (because he personally was a winp of the highest order) walked in front of us and he spouts off this stream of game related obsenities the like of which I had never encoutered before and thankfully haven't encountered since. After about a good 2 minutes of this I start to smile and look at him thoughfully, he finally finishes and after the 20 seconds pregnant pause I say in my best deadpan, "yeah, but at least a have a larger penis" and walked away. The brohaha had caused a larger gathering so there were quite a few girls in the group as well by the time he had finished and I made my comment.

Let's just say it was the last of any incidents such as these.

 

[interwyrm]

"I wish you had more varied interests."

Rant... like habitat for humanity, or reading about insects, or my schoolwork, or doing logic/word puzzles? Bah!

 

[DonTadow]

Exactly. Every other insult listed here can and will be simply shrugged off, or maybe huffed at in the worst cases.

Seriously, from very personal experience, flat out telling someone that they are no fun to play with is a sure way to make a gamer cry, throw a tantrum, or simply walk away in quiet dejection. It is the one insult that is truly painful to a gamer, since for many of us, it is a primary source of socialization. If even the other gamer geeks don't enjoy playing with you, who else will?

DM wise the biggest insult I've ever been called was that my campaign was that I hand-held my players. I was so upset because it was a former player whom did not pay attention at any of teh games and was too busy showing this female gamer his baby album. It just upset me when people judge without paying attention.

 

[VirgilCaine]

The worst? Truly? Try this...

"We have a lot more fun when you don't show up."

Ow. That would be horrible.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

The biggest insult you can give me as a gamer? That I spend my time on "worthless crap." And NASCAR or football is any less "worthless?" Pfeh.

The worst about things like calling the hobby "worthless crap", or "useless" is not when someone says it to insult you, but when they say it without thinking. Some of my relatives have said degrading stuff about my hobby several times, but it was not because they wanted to insult me, they just didn't think what they were saying or that it could be insulting to others.

I don't know if it's the worst possible one, but what bugs me most is when people accuse me of being "obsessive" or some such thing all because I make it a point to regularly attend my weekly game. If you had a tennis lesson, or a football league match once a week, you'd make it a point in your schedule to attend that, too!

I noticed that, too. A couple of the less serious gamers accuse me of being obsessed because I'm always there and never plan anything else at game time (not if I can help it). It's interesting to note that it was usually those gamers who often did not show up because "they had to go shopping" or stuff like that. The fact that we had very few players back then and we could not play when even one said he couldn't make it helped in their decision, I think. They were not there, there was no game, so they didn't miss anything.

Anyway...
The analogy with football and other sports is a very good one. My brother now trains like four times a week for soccer, so I say the 1/2 days a week I use for RPG is not so bad.

 

[Remathilis]

"Anti-Social"

Got that one alot: "He's one of those Anti-social nerds who plays D&D alot". I'm a social person: I go to church, bars, sportsgames, work, social functions, movies, etc. But because I play D&D, I'm "anti-social" (which is Ironic: D&D is the most social thing I really do)