I was "booed" for even showing the 4e Core books

[ProfessorCirno]

I don't see anything childish about tearing your character sheet up and announcing you're done. If you destroy the sheet, people are less likely to try to cajole you into continuing when you really don't feel like it.

Tearing up the sheet means exactly that. It certainly doesn't imply a tantrum, fit, or other childish behavior in and of itself. Expressing your opinion in a clear, unequivocal manner is not childish.

Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't have the books with me - but if I remember correctly, the 2e explanation of being flayed by the Lady of Pain as described as taking the person's character sheet and ripping it into small bits and pieces while describing that nothing about them remains.

 

[rounser]

Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't have the books with me - but if I remember correctly, the 2e explanation of being flayed by the Lady of Pain as described as taking the person's character sheet and ripping it into small bits and pieces while describing that nothing about them remains.

The words "my DM is a jerk" would probably float through my head as that happened, if there were no explanation to preface it.

To complete the picture, I think that after tearing it up, it would be appropriate for such a DM to eat the remains of the character sheet, all the while staring meaningfully and pacifically into the player's eyes. I think that would really hammer the point home - "Yes, my DM really is a jerk."

Of course, a Planescape DM with conviction would keep a shredder on hand for just such an occasion. Or a hungry rottweiler and some barbeque sauce.

 

[Fifth Element]

Personally, whenever anyone mentions 4E, I begin by producing one of the core books and throwing it upon the ground. I then proceed to jump up and down upon it with a great roaring sound.

Then I quickly bury it using a trowel I always keep on hand, and perform a Cossack dance on the location that it was interred, whilst singing the entire score of the HMS Pinafore.

For a finale, I swallow an entire set of polyhedral dice, and then regurgitate them in order of denomination.

Usually, someone asks what I call this demonstration, to which I always reply, "The Aristocrats."

Nicely done. Unfortunately, Remathilis already won the thread a few posts before yours. Robbed you of a victory.

 

[Fifth Element]

I don't know. i haven't read this particular thread, but i have seen some wotc staffers being childish and not particularly funny on these boards and getting away with it.

I was referring specifically to the red dragon cartoon thread, in which WotC was accused of using "childish" humour.

 

[GnomeWorks]

I was referring specifically to the red dragon cartoon thread, in which WotC was accused of using "childish" humour.

How is toilet humor not childish?

 

[Fifth Element]

How is toilet humor not childish?

That belongs in the other thread. Please don't start it again here.

 

[Obryn]

How is toilet humor not childish?

Do you really not see a difference between throwing childish tantrums and lowbrow humor?

I don't buy it.

-O

 

[GnomeWorks]

That belongs in the other thread. Please don't start it again here.

You brought it up first, but fine.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Do you really not see a difference between throwing childish tantrums and lowbrow humor?

They're both stupid and things that I would rather not deal with. So no, there's no difference.

 

[Imaro]

Do you really not see a difference between throwing childish tantrums and lowbrow humor?

I don't buy it.

-O

What tantrum...where does the poster state the player threw any type of tantrum...like I said this story just keeps growing and changing.