Greatest Insult to a D&D PLAYER (OOC)

[The Iron Mark]

Among role-players:
Munchkin!

Outside the hobby:
your games. (emphasis on -your- like it's something that stains. Ex: Oh you're playing your games tonight...)
A relative of mine: So... playing toys tonight?

Same here. I don't mind Power Gamer, because I freely admit that I am one, though I get annoyed if it's used as an insult instead of describing my character design style.

 

[Gold Roger]

From non gamers? Saying the really degrading stuff, like, speaking of toys and looking at you as childish. But then I regard such a person as close-minded and go on.

Among gamers? Destructive critique. It's terrible. As DM I'm constantly concerned with every aspect of the game that could be sygnificant for my players enjoyment. I'm seeking critigue for crying out loud and am frustrated if I don't get it, even beginning to think stuff like "It's so bad they don't want to tell me!". But then, if your critizised without reason or a really bad reason, it's terrible.It's crushing. If you don't enjoy my games, think about it, seek the reason, then tell me. If you can't find the reason, try to figure it out with me. If you don't like the style of my campaign (to many fights, rules etc.), that's fine, tastes differ. But destructive critizism is nothing different from saying "you suck".

 

[TheGM]

Wouldn't "Spike" be the power gamer of the Magic player types? After all, he's the one out to win at all costs, which is usually the negative stereotype of RPG power gamers.

It's a combination of things - Timmy was a card in Unglued, and at Killer Breakfast at GenCon one year there was a guy who played "Timmy", and used some of the most outrageous things to keep his character alive.

I've never heard Mechanist before. I'd consider it an honor if it weren't explained otherwise.

Depends upon the group you're with. We've had some pretty bad experiences with people that just couldn't play through a simple "ten PCs one orc" encounter without a mat so they could count squares and insure all was fair, and we've had a couple of "if I merge these two rules together, I can play a Brontosaurus!" one day the insult was thrown out P2P, and it's stuck with us since.

 

[Mark CMG]

Greatest Insult to a D&D PLAYER (OOC)?

I've heard someone use the term "Dungeon Master" in such a way that it seemed it was meant as an insult. I think they were used to playing in groups where there was an adversarial relationship between the DM and the other players.

 

[Masquerade]

She also calls me an otaku which is Japanese for geek or nerd.

I typically consider being called "otaku" a compliment. I've never heard it used with a negative connotation.

I'll agree, "metagamer" and "powergamer" are bad, but not as bad as the inverse. Being called a "poor roleplayer" must really hurt.

 

[babomb]

I typically consider being called "otaku" a compliment. I've never heard it used with a negative connotation.

In the U.S., most people who use it mean it in a positive connotation.

In Japan, it literally means "house", as in, where you spend all of your time because you are an obsessive freak with no life.

 

[shilsen]

I personally can't think of an insult that I would really consider ... well, insulting. If the insult isn't true, then it simply makes me think the person trying to insult me is uninformed/stupid. And if the insult is true, then it's something I'm aware of and actually choose to be (I'm big on being exactly who I choose to be), so it's hardly going to upset me.

Maybe I should write a book - "How to be Uninsulted by Enemies and Uninfluenced by People"

 

[Dark Jezter]

I typically consider being called "otaku" a compliment. I've never heard it used with a negative connotation.

In Japan and America, the word "otaku" has two very different meanings. In America, it's a term gleefully used by anime fanboys in reference to each other. In Japan, though, the word is far less flattering: it means somebody who is so obsessed with their particular fandom (usually anime or manga) that they are basically a shut-in who has no love life, social life, etc. It's an insult that dates back to the late 1980s when a man named named Tsutomo Miyazaki, who had an obsession with lolicon (female pedophiliac manga), kidnapped and killed four young girls of approximately five years of age, using them to reenact scenes from his manga collection. This horrific episode was known as "The Otaku Murders". Most American anime fans are unfamiliar with the disturbing history behind the word otaku, however.

But, back to the main topic of the thread...

Power Gamer is a label I wear with pride. I would, however, take offense at somebody calling me a drama queen.

 

[LondonReign]

"Cheater"

What stings more than being falsely accused?

Or, if you do cheat, what stings more than being called to the nmate in front of your peers?

 

[tonym]

The insult that made me the maddest? Being called a "gamist."

For some reason, Gamist/Narrativist/Simulationist theory rubs me the wrong way.

And I am NOT a gamist, dang it.

Tony M