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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 3362683" data-attributes="member: 2201">Manwe and Varda skipped to the back and read the last pages first!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Way back when, in 79, I had been playing D&D for about a month and a new DM was starting up a campaign.  I rolled up a ranger and the DM told me I had a special magic item that needed to be kept secret.  It was a ring that had great power and needed to be destroyed.  Being new I thought this was cool.  We had an ordinary adventure where we met up and headed out on a journey.  During a break we headed to a burger joint; the DM didn't like the place and wasn't there.  The other players started talking about how grateful they were that the DM wasn't trying to run his 'Lord of the Rings' BS that he always did.  I paid attention and was annoyed but wasn't sure how to deal with it.... until the next time we played.This player always rolled up powerful psionic characters on 3d6 rolled in order for the stats.   :\   Same with this campaign and for some reason he got annoyed with the party.  There was a battle and his psionics were kicking everyone else's characters.  One guy called for Divine Intervention - his god replied, "Well, you all run.  I think I can hold him off until you get away."  which was really disheartening!I plunked the ring on then, went invisible and I told the DM my ranger was summoning the Nazgul to battle the psionic psycho.  I'm not sure if they did but my ranger turned into a Nazgul and the mount was there so I started to fly to Mt Doom.  The most disillusioned of the party begged me to return so I could carry them to Sauron as a sacrifice.  I thought that would make ol' Saurie happy so I grabbed them and headed off to glory!  The session ended.The next week, we were talking about what to play and that DM said he could run.  We were shocked, pointing out how Sauron had the Ring, he was Boss Hog in Middle-Earth.  The DM replied, "No, he still has to consolidate his power."And he was serious about that!  Very weird.  I never played in a game he ran again.</blockquote>

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