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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2332222" data-attributes="member: 3192">The very worst DM I played under cheated. And I don't mean by fudging rolls or using inconsistent monster stats. (he did that too). What he did was favor some players and not others. For those he favored, he gave cool things, bent the rules (horribly) to allow them to take prestige classes at 1st level, and generally always steered the consequences of the world in their direction. They were simply more important than everybody else (including most of the party).Those of us who weren't his best friends or married to him were left playing standard characters. We had no knowledge of how the &quot;other&quot; players had created their characters and when someone scoffed the DM would become very argumentative. In fact, I think he started out as a rule-lawyer and took the DM chair just so he could &quot;win&quot; rule arguments every time. (even though he had sufficient knowledge to know he was cheating on behalf of his favored PCs)Needless to say I didn't go back after I learned what was going on. But I know many of his longterm players simply accepted his secretive cheating as normal DMing.I know it hasn't been said, but I think there are some Real Bad players out their too. And I think they are related in part to why some Real Bad DM's stay in business.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 2332222, member: 3192"] The very worst DM I played under cheated. And I don't mean by fudging rolls or using inconsistent monster stats. (he did that too). What he did was favor some players and not others. For those he favored, he gave cool things, bent the rules (horribly) to allow them to take prestige classes at 1st level, and generally always steered the consequences of the world in their direction. They were simply more important than everybody else (including most of the party). Those of us who weren't his best friends or married to him were left playing standard characters. We had no knowledge of how the "other" players had created their characters and when someone scoffed the DM would become very argumentative. In fact, I think he started out as a rule-lawyer and took the DM chair just so he could "win" rule arguments every time. (even though he had sufficient knowledge to know he was cheating on behalf of his favored PCs) Needless to say I didn't go back after I learned what was going on. But I know many of his longterm players simply accepted his secretive cheating as normal DMing. I know it hasn't been said, but I think there are some Real Bad players out their too. And I think they are related in part to why some Real Bad DM's stay in business. [/QUOTE]

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