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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9624126" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Accumulated evidence. Nobody is saying that you go into your first game with a GM and assume they're the bad guy. Unless they tell you about their previous games and their stories set off alarm bells, of course. Instead, you play with someone for a while and realize they suck.For instance, the GM punishes PCs who go against their very specific storyline (especially if there's a DMPC involved). If the GM is particularly hostile towards a player who picked a race or class they don't like. If the GM sets up impossible-to-overcome obstacles--like, you say you search the room, but because you didn't specifically say you search each individual floor tile, you don't find the trap, even if you rolled insanely high. If the GM consistently ignores lines and veils, especially if they do so under the pretext that including them is &quot;therapeutic&quot; in some way. If the GM punishes PCs for out-of-game issues (or vice versa). If the GM seems to like killing off or torturing PCs a leeeetle too much. If the GM chooses to ignore or rewrite parts of a PC's background without the player's consent or knowledge.Things like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9624126, member: 6915329"] Accumulated evidence. Nobody is saying that you go into your first game with a GM and assume they're the bad guy. Unless they tell you about their previous games and their stories set off alarm bells, of course. Instead, you play with someone for a while and realize they suck. For instance, the GM punishes PCs who go against their very specific storyline (especially if there's a DMPC involved). If the GM is particularly hostile towards a player who picked a race or class they don't like. If the GM sets up impossible-to-overcome obstacles--like, you say you search the room, but because you didn't specifically say you search each individual floor tile, you don't find the trap, even if you rolled insanely high. If the GM consistently ignores lines and veils, especially if they do so under the pretext that including them is "therapeutic" in some way. If the GM punishes PCs for out-of-game issues (or vice versa). If the GM seems to like killing off or torturing PCs a leeeetle too much. If the GM chooses to ignore or rewrite parts of a PC's background without the player's consent or knowledge. Things like that. [/QUOTE]

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