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

[Nareau]

All true, all painful:

"Hope you guys don't mind, we brought our 1 year-old daughter!"

From a guy at a con (playing an elven sorceress):
"SQUEE! SQUEE! This is my squee toy! SQUEE!!!"
"My elf bitch goes and kills that guy."
"I gotta leave early to go meet my girlfriend." (A relief for us, but I felt really bad for the poor girl...)

"I have this really annoying pixie character who totally ruined this big campaign by killing the whole assassin's guild when she was only 3rd level! Can I play her?!"

In a dark, gritty cyberpunk game:
"My character's name is Cheese. He's uber."

and then later...

"What do you mean the surgeon murdered me while he was operating on me?! Just because I've pissed off every major power in town...you can't do that!!!"

Spider

 

[Gundark]

hey!!

"Hope you guys don't mind, we brought our 1 year-old daughter!"

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

 

[Holy Bovine]

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

That would depend on wether they called before hand to ask to bring their 1-year old daughter. Understanding goes both ways. Just because you're immune to the screaming and temper tantrums doesn't mean everyone else is.

Show up at the door with a child in tow with no advance warning and it's no game tonight! And there are such things as babysitters.

 

[Qlippoth]

Re: Re: hey!!

That would depend on wether they called before hand to ask to bring their 1-year old daughter. Understanding goes both ways. Just because you're immune to the screaming and temper tantrums doesn't mean everyone else is.

Do you mean the 1-year-old or the parents?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

'What do you mean player characters can die!'

'Oh, sorry, I only read the first paragraph of that section.' (We all know that the bad stuff always happens in the second paragraph...)

'Hey guys! I brought my Gameboy! I'll just sit here and play it until you meet up with me.' *BLEEP* *BLOOP!* *WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA*

'Hey Guys! I brought some weed!'

***SNORE***

'Can I play Elminster?'

'Can my 1st level character own a small castle?'

'Can I bring along a trained war cockatiel?' (Not kidding on that one folks...)

The Auld Grump

 

[Gundark]

sure

Show up at the door with a child in tow with no advance warning and it's no game tonight! And there are such things as babysitters.

No game tonight??? you must know some bratty kids

sure I can agree with this. babysitters aren't always an option. I saying though if the group want a couple to play and the couple has a child and has to bring the child there needs to be some degree of understanding. Not every kid screams either, our son sleeps like a log through the whole session (when we've had to bring him)

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Oops, forgot: 'Hey! I just downloaded this cool race/class/template/prestige class from the internet! Can I play one?'

The Auld Grump, yep, seen that one...

On babies and gaming, twice I've been at games that were ruined by a baby tat 'Oh don't worry, he'll sleep like a log' did not in any way accurately describe.

I have had a parent bring his kid because the kid was colicky, that was just plain rude.

I have also run a game where the tike woke up, picked up a die and rolled it for daddy, got a 20... then went back to sleep smiling.

Over all I'd rather the kids be left at home, but it does depend on the kid.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Re: sure

I saying though if the group want a couple to play and the couple has a child and has to bring the child there needs to be some degree of understanding. Not every kid screams either, our son sleeps like a log through the whole session (when we've had to bring him)

My parents played once a week through most of the eighties. From the time I was about two and from the time my sister was born, pretty much, they took us along to their games.

I'd listen, and watch, and eat chips, and then crash behind a sofa when I got tired.

Until I was about six, and the group let me start playing.

I played with that group until I was about ten, when we moved to another city.

I look back and think "My god, how could they stand it?" Letting a six-year-old kid play in their game? Particularly since one of my player's twelve-year-old son joined my group a year ago, and he took a while to... "settle in"... I simply couldn't fathom how they could have put up with me for five years!

However, I'm assured that I was never a problem. Not sure how far to trust that one, but I'm certainly grateful I had the opportunity...

(One other advantage from that time is that I have no trouble falling asleep anywhere. If you can sleep on the floor in a brightly-lit room while a bunch of people merrily slay orcs until 2 in the morning, nothing else is much of a problem )

-Hyp.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Re: sure

No game tonight??? you must know some bratty kids

sure I can agree with this. babysitters aren't always an option. I saying though if the group want a couple to play and the couple has a child and has to bring the child there needs to be some degree of understanding. Not every kid screams either, our son sleeps like a log through the whole session (when we've had to bring him)

As a member of that subset of gamers that have children (I have a 7 year old and a 1 1/2 year old) I can say that, yes, showing up with your children unannounced is just not good. There definitely needs to be a degree of understanding. I play pretty much online right now, but when I do have face to face games at the house, it's understood that, hey, the kids are gonna be there. If someone wants to not come to one of these sessions, it's understandable. Stuff does happen with the kids around. They need attention, or food, or diaper changes (not so much with the 7-year old on that one), and I make sure that anyone coming over to game understands that such things might take away from the game. But I don't get offended if they say they'd rather not 'cause I understand.

What was the original topic?

 

[Darkness]

But Darkness, the Meowth knows sign language and damns everyone to hell!!! He asks you to drive him to the sun... and sometimes he wears Hawaiian shirts and carries a bottle. Meowth is the scariest member of our gaming group. I wonder how many people don't understand that all of this is true.

Oh. I thought you just meant some girl/guy who really loves Pokémon; I had no idea.