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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Cashel" data-source="post: 1880888" data-attributes="member: 321">All right, calm down everybody, willya? Nobody's a bad DM.This thread reminded me of my own worst metagaming moment, back in high school, when I pissed off the DM so bad he stopped the game right then and there. My friend and I were playing our wizard PCs (Karadd-Tak "Oakenstaff" & the Emerald Sage) and the DM (still a dear friend, best man at my wedding, godfather to my firstborn son) was running us through the old Time of Troubles trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels--Shadowdale, Tantras and Waterdeep.You may remember that those modules were the worst sort of railroadey hooey...we soon found that we were following the real protagonists and basically watching what happened to them. Plus, they were jerks--Midnight, Kelemvor, Cyric and some other schmuck. By the end of the first module, we were disgusted.The cliffhanger was some <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />-and-bull set-up involving a fight with the avatar of Bane, the seeming death of Elminster, and we were the prime suspects. What a crock--like we could touch El-freaking-minster. Did they not notice that Bane was just here?So they clapped us in irons, took away all our stuff, and dropped us in prison to await trial. My buddy started to get all pissed and worked up that we were getting rooked like this. That's when I turned to him and mock-whispered, loud enough so I was sure my other friend would overhear: "Don't worry. The module will protect us."The DM was so cheesed off. We ended up bowing out of the rest of that sorry trilogy, because he was too aggravated to finish running it. We players had no problem with that.Later on I found out that part of the reason he was so aggravated was because, indeed, the module would have protected us. NPCs were on the way to break us out of prison and give us back all our stuff. <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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