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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 5447018" data-attributes="member: 2002"><p>Twice;</p><p></p><p>I answered a Gamers Wanted from this board. A guy was running a game just a couple of miles from my apartment. The first warning sign was that <em>I actually showed up</em> and he says, very curtly "Oh, I didn't think you were coming" What? Odd that, given that we had not interacted at all other than the basic "hey, I'm interested" and "come on over". But ok, I go in. The man shows me that he has pretty much every D&D book ever made and printed copies of every PDF ever published. Um, OK. Then makes it very clear to me in strong tones that he is a stickler for the rules (bear that in mind). So I decide to play a Wizard. He lectures me about material components and that I won't be able to cast spells which require components I can't find in this remote, very cold environment. So ok, another player suggests that I take the <em>Eschew Components</em> feat. DM is practically beside himself and says that he won't allow anything that isn't in the PHB (after telling me to include other books earlier). Very unhappy to learn that YES, IT IS IN THE PHB.</p><p></p><p>Game is seriously ridiculous in what he throws at a 1st level party. I figure out a trick he's playing at one point and he accuses me of having read the module and threatens to kick me out. By the end of the night, I get slaughtered by a monster that shouldn't be run against anything less than a 3rd level party. I take my lumps without complaint and propose coming back as a Fighter. </p><p></p><p>I get an email from him the next day saying that I am an "rules lawyer" and am no longer welcome at his table.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Second One. Guy has some odd rules for experience and a penchant for ambushes in the middle of the night and ambushes of our scouts that result in ONLY THEM getting a lot of experience and my "have to actually sleep to regain spells" Wizard getting totally screwed. I complain about this, and am backed by the other players, one of whom raises the issue of what will happen when my Wizard gets Fireball and can nuke enemies before they get close to the rest of us. I also raise some other issues, just trying to clarify them, but the guy reacts in an extremely defensive manner rather than just explaining what he has in mind.</p><p></p><p>Then he's got his SO playing, and she's seriously immature. Deliberately sabotages everything the party does and then giggles and turns away, looking at us out of the corner of her eyes. Haha, big fun to mess up everything we do. Well, I don't like it and neither does anyone else. The other five players ask me, since I'd already been talking to the guy about the experience thing, to talk to him about this too.</p><p></p><p>GM becomes incensed and goes way overboard in personally attacking me. <strong>Way</strong> over the line. I tell the other players that I'm done unless they want to speak up and show the guy that I'm not making this up (as he accuses me of doing. Four of them do, one of them calling the SO a little child who needs to grow up. The other guy does a 180 and sucks up to SO, claiming it is "good roleplay" and perfectly OK as long as she's having fun.</p><p></p><p>I continued to play, but was clearly not well liked by the GM, who wrapped up the game earlier than first announced and then never gamed with any of us again. I think he would have kicked me out, but a> I was the ride for two other players who wouldn't be able to keep playing if I wasn't giving them a ride, and b> the other two said they probably wouldn't play if I was kicked out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 5447018, member: 2002"] Twice; I answered a Gamers Wanted from this board. A guy was running a game just a couple of miles from my apartment. The first warning sign was that [I]I actually showed up[/I] and he says, very curtly "Oh, I didn't think you were coming" What? Odd that, given that we had not interacted at all other than the basic "hey, I'm interested" and "come on over". But ok, I go in. The man shows me that he has pretty much every D&D book ever made and printed copies of every PDF ever published. Um, OK. Then makes it very clear to me in strong tones that he is a stickler for the rules (bear that in mind). So I decide to play a Wizard. He lectures me about material components and that I won't be able to cast spells which require components I can't find in this remote, very cold environment. So ok, another player suggests that I take the [I]Eschew Components[/I] feat. DM is practically beside himself and says that he won't allow anything that isn't in the PHB (after telling me to include other books earlier). Very unhappy to learn that YES, IT IS IN THE PHB. Game is seriously ridiculous in what he throws at a 1st level party. I figure out a trick he's playing at one point and he accuses me of having read the module and threatens to kick me out. By the end of the night, I get slaughtered by a monster that shouldn't be run against anything less than a 3rd level party. I take my lumps without complaint and propose coming back as a Fighter. I get an email from him the next day saying that I am an "rules lawyer" and am no longer welcome at his table. Second One. Guy has some odd rules for experience and a penchant for ambushes in the middle of the night and ambushes of our scouts that result in ONLY THEM getting a lot of experience and my "have to actually sleep to regain spells" Wizard getting totally screwed. I complain about this, and am backed by the other players, one of whom raises the issue of what will happen when my Wizard gets Fireball and can nuke enemies before they get close to the rest of us. I also raise some other issues, just trying to clarify them, but the guy reacts in an extremely defensive manner rather than just explaining what he has in mind. Then he's got his SO playing, and she's seriously immature. Deliberately sabotages everything the party does and then giggles and turns away, looking at us out of the corner of her eyes. Haha, big fun to mess up everything we do. Well, I don't like it and neither does anyone else. The other five players ask me, since I'd already been talking to the guy about the experience thing, to talk to him about this too. GM becomes incensed and goes way overboard in personally attacking me. [B]Way[/B] over the line. I tell the other players that I'm done unless they want to speak up and show the guy that I'm not making this up (as he accuses me of doing. Four of them do, one of them calling the SO a little child who needs to grow up. The other guy does a 180 and sucks up to SO, claiming it is "good roleplay" and perfectly OK as long as she's having fun. I continued to play, but was clearly not well liked by the GM, who wrapped up the game earlier than first announced and then never gamed with any of us again. I think he would have kicked me out, but a> I was the ride for two other players who wouldn't be able to keep playing if I wasn't giving them a ride, and b> the other two said they probably wouldn't play if I was kicked out. [/QUOTE]
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