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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 5211477" data-attributes="member: 50987">Players pick up bad ideas from just about everywhere, not just from bad DMs.&nbsp; That said, I know of at least a couple of people who have been warped by previous DMs.There was this one girl, I'll call her Jane, who once dated her DM in high school.&nbsp; Apparently he was into slasher-horror a bit too much, and his adventures were always overtly sexual and violent to the extreme.&nbsp; She said that every single adventure was about some kind of demon doing horrific and perverse things to innocent people, all described in vivid detail.&nbsp; It creeped her out enough to make her break up with the guy and leave the group.&nbsp; She didn't play again for years.Well, one weekend I was running an adventure at her friend's house.&nbsp; It was nothing special; just a little quest for a magic sword in a &quot;haunted&quot; forest.&nbsp; (I did that old Scooby-Doo bit, where the forest was home to some griggs who were scaring people away.)&nbsp; Jane didn't want to play, so she just sat in the other room and listened.&nbsp; Afterward, she said she didn't know that D&amp;D could be about faeries and unicorns and magic swords, and still be fun.&nbsp; She joined us for a couple of games after that, and had a good time, but she never could get into it as a hobby.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 5211477, member: 50987"] Players pick up bad ideas from just about everywhere, not just from bad DMs. That said, I know of at least a couple of people who have been warped by previous DMs. There was this one girl, I'll call her Jane, who once dated her DM in high school. Apparently he was into slasher-horror a bit too much, and his adventures were always overtly sexual and violent to the extreme. She said that every single adventure was about some kind of demon doing horrific and perverse things to innocent people, all described in vivid detail. It creeped her out enough to make her break up with the guy and leave the group. She didn't play again for years. Well, one weekend I was running an adventure at her friend's house. It was nothing special; just a little quest for a magic sword in a "haunted" forest. (I did that old Scooby-Doo bit, where the forest was home to some griggs who were scaring people away.) Jane didn't want to play, so she just sat in the other room and listened. Afterward, she said she didn't know that D&D could be about faeries and unicorns and magic swords, and still be fun. She joined us for a couple of games after that, and had a good time, but she never could get into it as a hobby. [/QUOTE]

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