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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7264552" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!(1) People who are more interested as using D&D as a reason to toke up and get [beep]faced drunk. I'm here to play a nerdy game with other's who want to play make-believe. If I want to be surrounded by idiots who make it a contest to see who can get drunk the fastest I'll go to a bar.(2) Religious folks who can't keep their faith to themselves. Look. You're a [whatever], great...*I don't care*! I'm not interested in how you are rationalizing something in-character as being 'good' or 'bad' because of how your *actual* religious beliefs are oriented. If you have no problem pretending you're a female (or male) elf who can cast magic spells, you should have no problem pretending that you are a devout cleric of [insert deity/religion]. (as a sub to this one...replace "religion" with "politics" and extrapolate)(3) Players and DM's who don't put any (or very little) effort into actually trying to make the game better. In particular DM's. I usually DM, so I know how much work can/does go into making a decent game session and campaign. I do it because I like it. I actually DO take the time to look up information that might be relevant. In other words, researching types of boats, typical nautical terms, etc when a waterborne adventure may be at hand next session...notice I said may! Even if it's not likely that it will happen, I *still* do the "leg work". I make notes, draw maps, print pictures, etc. When I get to play and someone else DM's, and after 5 minutes it's painfully obvious that they haven't thought any farther than "This sounds like a cool adventure, I'll run that"...I instantly loose about 80% interest. I don't bother asking "So this town is at the base of a mountain and the have mines? What do they mine?"...because if it's not mentioned in the adventure, chances of the DM actually THINKING about it for a few seconds is virtually nil. And nothing kills a players "suspension of disbelief" faster than a DM replying "Uuhhh...I don't know. Um...stuff. Mine stuff. Metals. I don't know. Silver. Ok? Good enough? Right...".  To me it shows the DM just doesn't care about running a believable session. Disappointing. (4) Related to #3, The same thing, but in regards to rules of the game in stead of the campaign/setting. A 5e DM that comes to me and says "Optional Rules? I don't know. Whatever you want I guess...whatever official books, lets say". Basically says "I'm a DM but don't give a flying F about consistency or this game world as a whole...if you guys are walking over everything, I'll just cheat and add more monsters, HP's and stuff to balance it when it needs to be".  (On a side note, this is the SINGLE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GURPS GM'S! I have yet to play in a GURPS game where the GM actually took time and effort into going through 'the books' to pick out what is/isn't used, and why. It's always been 'This is a Fantasy campaign, so 100 point characters using the Fantasy book. Go! That has a 100% chance of making the campaign live up to the G part of the systems name.)(5) Excessive swearing/cursing. Just crude and obnoxious. Annoys me to no end. Swear/curse when it's appropriate...not every sentence you say.(6) (all the other social reasons you wouldn't hang out with someone)^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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