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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trevalon Moonleirion" data-source="post: 249700" data-attributes="member: 492">Since the readers demanded it....*dramatic music*What we did to Sticks when he DMed...We were given tickets to a very prominent theatre house in the city that we were in.  We had gotten them for saving the town from a big ooze monster or something (basically, he had strung a bunch of Dungeon side treks together into one story).  I was playing a dwarven fighter and a human cleric, and Fayredeth was playing...ahh... i can't quite remember, but i think it was a druid and a rogue.  Anyhow...So we go to the show, I'm in my adventuring gear, and the druid is wearing a leaf--and only a leaf...one NOT strategically placed.  And we watch the good show.  Towards the end of the performance, one of the actors doubles over in pain, screaming and the other actors sort of look confused.  He starts thrashing and eventually the guy is ripped apart from the inside Alien-style by this lizard thing.  The auditorium empties as people run screaming to the exits while the thing breaks through the stage and drops down to below.  We sit there clapping and cheering "GREAT EFFECTS!  WOOHOO!" for about five rounds.  Then my dwarf realizes that they aren't effects and charges down the aisle to the stage and jumps below.  my cleric tries jumping over the seats and just going down to stage without using the aisle and just continues doing faceplants into the seats.  the druid and rogue continue standing there clapping i think.Metagaming the entire while, i go down and beat the hell out of the red slaad while all sorts of crazy antics ensue.  We really gave Sticks hell while he was behind the screen with little out-of-game comments, and I think that's what made him snap... a pity i can't remember them all... heheSorry that the story wasn't nearly as good as it sounded with just the teaser i used above!As for why we did it...just to see if he could stand the rigors of DMing our group of misfits.  He wasn't that bad of a DM...obviously inexperienced in the fine arts of some stuff that goes on behind the screen.  And the flavor text...good GOD the flavor text <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />   it wasn't the prettiest stuff on earth by any means.And me?  I like DMing and playing equally well.  As far as our group goes I'll definately DM...we dont' really roleplay ...AT ALL.  Behind the screen I can at least prod some of the ACTORS (and yes, several of them are Thespians with me) to roleplay like they're supposed to.All well, we love Sticks, even though he failed our little test <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And I do love my gaming group, with or without roleplaying!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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