[humor] The Top Ten Things you don't want a new player to say at the first game...

[Pielorinho]

Re: hey!!

Obviously you don't have kids it's hard when both partners in a marriage play and you have a kid. be a bit more understanding

Just to back Spider up on this: I played in this game. The couple that brought their kid:

1) Were coming to their first session ever with us.
2) Did ask us beforehand if they could bring the kid along, but
3) Reassured us that the kid would sleep through the whole session.
4) When the kid started screaming (and I mean screaming, like the sound you'd get dragging a thousand ice picks across a skating rink, feeding that into a microphone, and pointing the microphone at its own speaker), didn't take it out of the gaming room, but rather ignored the kid.
5) Didn't get invited back.

Parents, I understand if you have trouble finding a babysitter. That doesn't give you the right to ruin other people's evenings: if you chose to have a kid, you chose to be responsible for the kid, and need to get the little tyke out of other people's eardrums once the screeching starts.

Daniel

 

[carpedavid]

True quote...

At a pickup game of D&D at a theater convention back in high school, we gathered a couple of other drama geeks and started in on the "Ship of Horrors" Ravenloft module. One guy who we just met, and who had claimed to have played before, rolls up a paladin. The DM begins the adventure and tells the paladin that he's in his room. The following is literally the first thing out of his character's mouth...

DM - "You hear a knock on the door..."

Paladin - "Who the f--- is it?"

*sound of jaws hitting floor*

 

[PowerWordDumb]

*ziiiiippppp*

*shuffle shuffle*

"Hey, where can I stash my pants while we play?"

 

[Pielorinho]

[B"Hey, where can I stash my pants while we play?" [/B]

Actually, if you give him a chance, you'll find out that Hal's a great player.

Daniel

 

[PowerWordDumb]

"So I brought along this Book of Erotic Fantasy to base my character concept on... Any girls in the group? No? Okay, who's the best-looking guy then?"

 

[Kastil]

Re: Re: hey!!

Parents, I understand if you have trouble finding a babysitter. That doesn't give you the right to ruin other people's evenings: if you chose to have a kid, you chose to be responsible for the kid, and need to get the little tyke out of other people's eardrums once the screeching starts.

Daniel

Wow. The kid was screaming and they ignored them?!?! I really did have a 'good' baby! We brought our son where we gamed (of course it helps that the DMs were the Godparents) and he was helpful not a screaming little hell spawn.

 

[Pielorinho]

Re: Re: Re: hey!!

Wow. The kid was screaming and they ignored them?!?! I really did have a 'good' baby!

They were. . . unfortunate players in many ways. I actually was the one that gave them the okay to bring their kid, assuming they were either telling the truth about the tyke's sleeping habits or would have the good graces to remove the kid from the gaming room if the kid started freaking out. I was wrong.

After they left, we all looked at one another in astonished horror. Finally, the DM said, "Ummm...right. So the ceiling falls in on their heads, killing them. Do you guys want to go on to the next room?"

Turns out that we did.

Daniel

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

True and rather recent story...

I was working part-time on weekends and my shift overlapped with the other employee's by about an hour. We got to talking and he discovered that I played D&D. After chatting, I decided to introduce him to my DM (who happens to be my SO), because he's usually looking for new players. NewGuy had run his own homebrew game for a few years using 2nd edition, and said he was interested in learning 3E, so I figured it was safe.

First thing out of NewGuy's mouth upon meeting the DM:

"My character's from my own world, and he's a god. Don't worry though, he's not the most powerful one."

Needless to say, NewGuy is not gaming in our game.

What really floored me (beyond that statement) was that the concept of making a new character to play was alien to him... and, next weekend when our shifts overlapped, he asked me again if he could play once in a while. "You guys can just call me in when you run into something that you can't kill."